
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday, pronounced the Samsung Managing
Director, Young Ho Jo, an illegal immigrant, and also ordered the
Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to deport Ho Jo back to South Korea,
his home country.
According to The Guardian, the development followed the ongoing
probe by the upper legislative chamber’s ad-hoc committee over the
$16.35 billion Egina Oil Field project which was spear-headed by Senator Solomon
Adeola, representing Lagos West Senatorial District.
Adeola explained that the resolution for the deportation of the Samsung
managing director was adopted by the Senate last week Thursday in relation
with the recommendation of the ad-hoc committee in its interim report.
He added that the illegality of the South Korean residency was revealed on the scrutiny of his papers with other operators of the
Egina Oil Field project.
He said: “Mr. Young Ho Jo, who has been working for the past
two months in Nigeria as the managing director of Samsung without
fulfilling legal requirements for such told us that he could not
complete his documentation as a result of alleged break down of machines
of the Nigeria Content Development Monitoring Board (NCMDB).
“But the NCMBD wrote to us that their machines had never broken
down in the period claimed, showing that the man has contravened the
Local Content law
“Going by recommendations made by this committee to the Senate
and resolution adopted, SAMSUNG MD is no longer recognised on account of
improper documentation as shown by papers he presented.
“To the Senate and this committee, SAMSUNG MD is an illegal
immigrant who must be deported by the Nigerian Immigration Service, to
which a letter to that effect has been forwarded to the Ministry of
Interior.
“He can, however, come back to the country through proper documentation thereafter,” he said.
However, it was also discovered that the South Korean while in
Nigeria breached the Local Content Act by spending $1.6 billion out of
the $3.5 billion contract Samsung got from the $16.35 billion Egina Oil
Field Project in Goje, South Korea.

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