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Nigerian
returnees from Libya on arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport
in Lagos yesterday. One of the returnees attended to by NEMA officials Photo:
NAN
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162 Nigerians who were
said to have been stranded in Libya have returned to Nigeria, it was learnt.
News Agency of Nigeria report continues:
The
returnees made up of 132 men, 27 women and three children arrived the Murtala
Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja Lagos yesterday aboard a
Chadames Air aircraft marked 5A WAT.
Sources
said they arrived the country through the help of the International
Organization for Migration (IOM) in collaboration with the Nigerian Embassy in
Libya.
Officials
say this would be the second time IOM would aid Nigerians’ return home from the
North American country while another set of returnees is expected any moment
from now.
Forty-one
Nigerians were recently deported from the same country for immigration related
offences.
The
returnees were received at the airport by officials from the Port Health
Services, Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), National
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and National Agency for the Prohibition of
Trafficking in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP).
Three
of the returnees were ill, with two brought in a stretcher and ferried into a
waiting ambulance provided by NEMA.
IOM’s
Operations Assistant, Mr. Juma Ben Hassan disclosed that one of the male
returnees had a motor accident while the one was a victim of fire disaster.
NEMA officials took the returnees for profiling before sending them to their respective states to reunite with their families.
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