More than 250 Nigerians repatriated from Libya arrived at
the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, on Tuesday.
In March, no fewer than 162 Nigerians were deported from
Libya.
The latest returnees arrived aboard an airbus belonging to
Libyan Air at the airport around 6.45pm.
The Nigerians were brought back through the intervention of
the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, spokesman for
South West, Ibrahim Farinloye, disclosed that 148 of the returnees were
females, while 105 were males.
He said, “The assisted voluntary returnees arrived in the
country around 6.45pm on Tuesday aboard an airbus belonging to the Libyan Air.
“A total of 253 people were received by NEMA officials. Of
the number were 140 adult females, four female children, and four female
infants.
“There were 102 male adults, two male children and one male
infant.”
NEMA officials provided the returnees with food and money
for transportation back to their different destinations after they were
profiled by immigration officers.
Other agencies that received the deportees were the National
Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, the National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency, the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigeria Immigration
Service.
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