The chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, Adams Oshiomhole, has raised the alarm that prisoners from foreign countries work at construction sites in Nigeria.

Oshiomhole made this disclosure in Abuja on Wednesday when the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, appeared before the National Assembly Joint Committees on Interior to defend the Ministry’s budget for the year 2024.

The committee was co-chaired by Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Interior, Honorable Ahmed Abdullahi.

“Your ministry needs to regulate the issuance of the quotas very well as I have it on good authority that prisoners from foreign lands are working in Nigeria as construction workers,” Oshiomhole told Tunji-Ojo.

Oshiomhole, however, praised the ministry of Interior for surpassing its revenue targets on the issuance of expatriate quotas.

He nevertheless said although, it is, the policy has been giving room for expatriates to steal the jobs meant for Nigerians in Nigeria.

“Many non-Nigerians are in the country, some of them live inside containers,” the former governor of Edo state said.

“They were being paid according to their country’s minimum wage by the construction industry that brought them.

“I don’t want to mention the companies’ names, but if I am provoked, I will mention them.”