Five Chinese nationals face deportation over 4bn illegal textile warehouse.

Five Chinese businessmen behind the massive illegal importation of textiles to Kano are to be deported from Nigeria.

The fate of the businessmen was announced on Wednesday after a joint inspection visit to Kano by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Dikko Inde Abdullahi and the Comptroller-General of Immigration, David Parradang...they were involved in the operation of illegal warehouses in Kano, where prohibited textile materials worth billions of Naira were uncovered by Customs anti-smuggling operatives.

Comptroller-General of Immigration, David Parradang, disclosed that investigations by his Service revealed that three out of the five Chinese nationals do not possess valid travel documents to reside and engage in any business in Nigeria beyond the scope of their admission.

He said immediate steps will be taken to effect their deportation.

However, investigations are still in progress to ascertain the immigration status of the other two Chinese nationals.

The Comptroller-General further stated that the Service will intensify routine mop-up operations to ease out irregular immigrants.

Those involved in the illegal textile warehouse business are

Gao Guoxu, aged 26 with passport No E12893246
Li Yang, 28 ,with Passport No E39324316
Zhang Jiantao, 26 with Passport No E00078159
Zhao Shoumin, 26 with Passport No E32882412
Zhou Jinxue, 35 with Passport No E23094307

The items are believed to be worth over N4billion, Customs sources say.