Tunisia repatriates 90 Nigerians, including 14 minors
No
fewer than 90 stranded Nigerians, including 14 minors, were on Tuesday
repatriated from Tunisia by the International Organisation for
Migration.
The deportees included a year-old and a five -month-old. The IOM repatriated them with the support of the Tunisian Government.
The National Emergency Management Agency
was one of the agencies that received the deportees at the Murtala
Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The South-West Zonal Coordinator of
NEMA, Mr Iyiola Akande, told newsmen at MMIA that the agency planned to
rehabilitate and re-integrate the deportees into the Nigerian society.
“We will take the minors to the National
Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons for re-orientation and
rehabilitation,’’ he said.
He said that NEMA would provide the
others with food, water and N5, 000, each, for transport to go to any
part of the country they would wish to reside.
“This is an emergency. Ordinarily, NEMA will not be involved.’’
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the deportees were received at the Cargo Section of the MMIA.
They were brought in at 2.30a.m. by a cargo aircraft with registration number 320-214117Y.
The IOM is an intergovernmental
organisation, established in 1951 as the Intergovernmental Committee for
European Migration to help to re-settle people displaced by World War
II.
It is now committed to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all.
It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants
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