Buses packed with young men to leave the busy market every afternoon from Nigeria's largest city, around their faces and cuts bruises on their arms.
Nigerian authorities a series of air strikes in recent days to bring fear to Katangua market in Lagos, migrant workers making the market thread piles of second-hand clothes, shoes, purses and other accessories, laid along the narrow dirt alleys. Migrant workers, they are mostly from neighboring Niger to the north, found themselves targeted security agencies worried about the growing number of Islamic extremists in the rebellion in the north of Nigeria, may spread to the south.
Nigeria's porous borders and corrupt bureaucracy, let people into the country the extremists move freely, and the opportunity to avoid capture. However, these same border to those living in poor neighboring countries an opportunity to make money. Now, even the correct travel documents immigrants fear that they will be rounded.
Abdul Tanimu, the work of the Niger leader in the market, said: "If they come here and arrest me, I did my thesis, I do not know what will happen." "I do not know what happened in the there. "
The immigrants attack took place even before there is a place in the oil-rich Nigeria, more than 160 million Slang. Plastic bags the colorful recycling in the region by travelers are known as "Ghana must go," when Nigeria kicked out of Ghana and other immigrants in 1983, the fall in oil prices, the country's economy craters.
Today, immigrants make up the number of employees in Lagos menial labor. Niger wheelbarrow to carry goods on their heads on the market, as commercial properties and residential estates doorman and night guards. The young man from Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Ghana and other countries also squeeze out into the city looking for work.
While some people a proper passport and work permit, most of the immigrants no papers to cross the border. Some by paying less than $ 1 for immigration officials. Others just drove the after a the Sahel patrol check beach stretches to Nigeria.
Loose arrangement is now being challenged, however, more and more waves mainly by Islamic extremists in Nigeria's Muslim north, shootings, bombings and kidnappings. Since 2010, the extremists guerrilla war has killed at least 1,548 people were killed, according to an Associated Press count. Authorities and civilians are increasingly worried that the violence could spread to Lagos and Nigeria Christian-dominated south, potentially unstable countries.
"Sense of insecurity in the country, those who they come here no regular passenger certificate is sent, Lagos State Auditor-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service RO Odupeyin said. In recent weeks, the service has expelled about 345 Niger and 11 Ghana, Odupeyin, told The Associated Press. 22 Mali have been arrested and handed over to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, France and Mali troops continue to fight against Islamic extremists said Odupeyin.
Critics, however, pointed out that almost all the arrested persons and extremist groups from Nigeria, the fact that not a foreigner. This means that persons arrested may have been in violation of immigration law, arrest Boko Haram in Nigeria's fight against radical Islamic extremist network and others of little value.
"The Government of Nigeria know Boko Haram," said Nigerian activist Declan Ihekaire,. President Goodluck Jonathan told Nigerians, he publicly said that Boko Haram members in his cabinet, if this is correct, the Government should look at them to know that they are Boko Haram - all of these markets place (arrest) the poor will not. "
Soldiers, police and Nigeria's domestic spy agency had repeatedly assault Search Katangua market, a vast maze of tons of clothes from the Western world - a number of potential donors - resale shops. The latest RAID in the April 9, the authorities arrested 251 suspected illegal immigrants, Ngozi Braide Lagos State Police spokesman said. While some were released, others remain in the Lagos state government headquarters, may be handed over to the immigration service deportation.
The signs are still in the raid on the market at a later date.
Yushau Ibrahim standing near metal doors, security forces broke out, he was still bleeding hand wrapped in a man's black tie sling. Ibrahim said police beat him and stole nearly $ 10,000 he holds local money changers. Other businesses, steal their money, things Braide refused. He said that during the raid, the young boy sleeping in the local mosque jumped down, went to the authorities began to launch sporadic gunfire.
Police arrested immigrants who do not immediately show their passport stamped. The Tanimu worry about who has a child is born, can only live in Nigeria. On one occasion, the authorities arrested his 15-year-old son, and at the same time refused to release him.
"He was born here, he did not know other places," said Tanimu, the Hausa language of northern Nigeria and neighboring countries. "They want to take them back to Niger, I am worried about where he is where he did not know to look for his parents?"
 
 



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