Britain deports 500 Nigerians
(Nigeria) The United Kingdom on Wednesday deported 50
Nigerians alleged to have committed various offences in the country.
The deportees, made of 44 males and six females, were flown
into Nigeria at 6.30 a.m., in a chartered B767 aircraft belonging to PITAN
Airways.
The deportees were received and screened at the cargo
terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport by officials of the
Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS.
A reliable source at the Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria, FAAN, said that some of them were deported for immigration-related
offences.
The source, who pleaded anonymity, said some of them called
their friends and relations to pick them up, while others secured cabs to take
them to their various destinations.
According to the source, others alleged to have committed
criminal offences were handed over to officers from the Force Criminal
Investigation Department, FCID, Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos.
The source noted that FAAN was expecting no fewer than 500
deportees, adding that this was only the first batch.
The acting Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK, Mr Olukunle
Bamgbose, had recently disclosed that the UK Government had plans to deport
about 29,000 Nigerians.
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