Six European countries deport 29 Nigerians
The governments of six European countries on Thursday deported 29 Nigerian men for committing various offences. Spokesperson for the Lagos Airport Police Command, DSP Joseph Alabi, confirmed the development to newsmen in Lagos.
Alabi said the Nigerians were deported from Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Lithuania and Denmark.
He said the deportees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMlA), Lagos, at about 7.35 am aboard a chartered Titan Airways aircraft with registration number G-POWD.
Alabi said that “this morning, we received 29 Nigerians who were brought back from Europe. They were all males. 28 of the deportees were alleged to have committed immigration-related offences while one of them was allegedly involved in a police case.”
He added that the deportees were received by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the police.
Also on ground to receive them, the police spokesman said, were officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
The deportees were profiled by immigration authorities and were allowed to depart to their various destinations.
