Only 50 Nigerians deported from U.K. for various offences
Contrary to earlier report that 500 Nigerians were deported from the United Kingdom, ANH has gathered that the number deported were just 500.
The U.K. 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 about 6.30 a.m. in a chartered B767 aircraft belonging to PITAN
Airways.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that they 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) told NAN 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.
NAN recalled that 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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