UK, Australia deport 40 Nigerians
By Shola Adekola
By Shola Adekola
For the second time in a month, United Kingdom and
Australia, on Wednesday, jointly deported 40 Nigerians for various immigration
offences. The deportees, comprising males and females, arrived at the
Hajj camp area of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, at 7:25a.m with
chartered aircraft.
According to information gathered, a chartered aircraft,
with registration number ZTA -4741, brought into the country 36 Nigerians,
comprising 29 males and seven females.
This was just as 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.
According to a source, some of the deportees 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.
Others who didn't kick against the fingerprinting were
swiftly attended to by the officers and were allowed to leave the airport after
the completion of their documentations.
When the Nigerian Tribune visited the hajj and cargo
terminal where the deportees used as exit, they looked frustrated and refused
to speak to any journalist.
The deportees, it was gathered, were returned from their
host countries for overstaying their visas and other immigration offences.
An officer of immigrations, who confirmed the deportation
but could not give much details, hinted that the service was still awaiting
more information as of the time of filing in this report.
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