UK, Australia deport 40 Nigerians
The, United Kingdom and Australia today deported 40 Nigerians for various immigration offences.
This is the second time in two months that the UK would deport Nigerians over various offences committed by them.
The deportees comprising males and females, arrived the hajj camp area of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at 7:25am in a chartered aircraft.
The chartered aircraft with registration number ZTA -4741 brought into the country 36 Nigerians comprising 29 males and seven females.
Also, Air Seychelles with the registration number SND-1 brought four males into the country for similar immigration offences.
Apart from Nigerians that were deported by the two countries, some citizens of Africa especially from Ghana, Liberia and Egypt were equally deported alongside the Nigerians.
The returnees were received by various agencies such as Immigration that checked their identities to ascertain their nationalities, Police, National Agency for Protection and Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, and other relevant stakeholders.
A source close to the terminal who spoke on condition of anonymity said that some of them were violent when officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, attached to the international wing of the airport attempted to collect their fingerprints for data purpose.
The source disclosed that others who didn’t kick against the fingerprinting were swiftly attended to by the officers and were allowed to leave the airport after documentations. They looked dejected as some of them lamented how to begin life anew.
The deportees, it was gathered, were returned from their host countries for overstaying their visas and other immigration offences.
The Public Relations Officer, NIS, Mr. Ekpedeme King confirmed the deportation, but could not give much details.
He said that the service was still awaiting more information from its Lagos office as at the time of filing this report.
In April, 48 Nigerians were jointly deported by UK and Switzerland Governments for several residing in their countries illegally.
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