President John Magufuli of Tanzania on Monday ordered the east African nation’s defense and security forces to crackdown on syndicates that were importing forged visas into the country.
“There has been a syndicate of people selling forged visas to unsuspecting clients,” said Magufuli in a live televised address broadcast by state-run Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation in the capital Dodoma.
The president was speaking before he had laid the foundation stone for the construction of a 30 billion Tanzanian shillings (about 13,054,003 U.S. dollars) state-of-the-art 8-story headquarters of the Immigration Department.
He said a consignment of forged visas worth 1.4 billion shillings was recently seized at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
“Preliminary investigations indicated that the forged visas were being made in a certain country,” said Magufuli without mentioning the country.
He appealed to the defense and security forces to hasten investigations and uncover the syndicates and take punitive measures against them. Enditem
