About 90 Nigerians deported from Tunisia on Tuesday arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.According to the South West Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Mr. Iyiola Akande, the deportees arrived Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos in Nouvel Air Airbus 320-214 with registration number 177Y at 12:32 am.They were earlier scheduled to arrive 3:05 pm on Monday.The South West Zonal Coordinator said that the repatriation was facilitated by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) with the support of Tunisian government. The returnees were received by various agencies such as Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) that checked their identities to ascertain their nationalities, NAPTIP, Police and other stakeholders.He said the returnees consisted of two infants of five months and fourteen months old, 12 teenagers, 13 young women and 61 young men.He disclosed that 71 of them came from Edo state, 8 from Delta State; 3 from Imo State, 3 from Lagos State, 2 from Kano State and 1 from Plateau State.One of the deportees, Success Smart, a 15 year of teenage girl claimed that she travelled out of the Nigeria two years ago through the tedious Libyan route.On why she did not return with the earlier batch during Libyan repatriation exercise, she said she was learning a vocation to become a hairdresser and that her parents refused to sign agreement with her master as an apprentice while she was in Nigeria.She, however, regretted travelling out of the country and urged other Nigerian youths against seeking greener pasture abroad.The deportees said that there is no crisis in Tunisia but that there is no country place like home.Akande disclosed that officials of National Agency for Protection and Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have taken over the cases of the teenagers for re-orientation and rehabilitation actions.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
90 Nigerians Deported From Tunisia
About 90 Nigerians deported from Tunisia on Tuesday arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.According to the South West Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Mr. Iyiola Akande, the deportees arrived Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos in Nouvel Air Airbus 320-214 with registration number 177Y at 12:32 am.They were earlier scheduled to arrive 3:05 pm on Monday.The South West Zonal Coordinator said that the repatriation was facilitated by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) with the support of Tunisian government. The returnees were received by various agencies such as Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) that checked their identities to ascertain their nationalities, NAPTIP, Police and other stakeholders.He said the returnees consisted of two infants of five months and fourteen months old, 12 teenagers, 13 young women and 61 young men.He disclosed that 71 of them came from Edo state, 8 from Delta State; 3 from Imo State, 3 from Lagos State, 2 from Kano State and 1 from Plateau State.One of the deportees, Success Smart, a 15 year of teenage girl claimed that she travelled out of the Nigeria two years ago through the tedious Libyan route.On why she did not return with the earlier batch during Libyan repatriation exercise, she said she was learning a vocation to become a hairdresser and that her parents refused to sign agreement with her master as an apprentice while she was in Nigeria.She, however, regretted travelling out of the country and urged other Nigerian youths against seeking greener pasture abroad.The deportees said that there is no crisis in Tunisia but that there is no country place like home.Akande disclosed that officials of National Agency for Protection and Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have taken over the cases of the teenagers for re-orientation and rehabilitation actions.
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