He urged personnel of the service to be at the alert of any unauthorised movement to reduce communal and state spread of coronavirus.
The ten persons were said to be headed to Cameroon despite the border closure in the face of COVID-19 pandemic were taken into custody by officials of Immigration and Navy at the border and handed over to health officials to ascertain their health status before being returned to their localities.
He called on Nigerians around the border communities to avoid aiding movements across the border at this period to avoid prosecution in line with extant laws of the service.
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