Not less than 98 Nigerians were early yesterday deported from Tunisia for immigration offences.
The deportees were brought into the country through the Murtala
Mohammed International airport, MMIA,
Lagos at about 12.32am. Among the
deportees were two infants of five months and 14 months old, 12
teenagers, 13 young women and 61 young men.
Seventy-seven of the deportees were from Edo State, eight from Delta
State, three from Imo and Lagos States while Kano and Plateau States had
two and one returnees respectively.
Speaking on the deportation of the Nigerians, the South-West Zonal
Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mr.
Iyiola Akande, said the repatriation was facilitated by the
International Organisation for Migration, IOM, with the support of the
Tunisian government.
The returnees were received by various agencies such as the Nigerian
Immigration Service, NIS, which checked their identities to ascertain
their nationalities, the National Agency for Protection and Trafficking
in Persons, NAPTIP, the police and other stakeholders.
