This is surely a very bad time for Nigerians in Diaspora as tales of deportation or attack rent the air. Few hours after 171 Nigerians were repatriated from Libya, 43 were deported from Italy, Germany and Belgium.
The deportees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMlA), Lagos at about 8.40 p.m. on a chartered Hifly aircraft with registration number CS-TQW, amidst tight security. They were all male.
According to the Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, 33 of the deportees were from Italy, while the other seven and another three were deported from Germany and Belgium, respectively.
Other agencies who were at the airport last night to receive the deportees included officials of 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.
