No fewer than 90 stranded Nigerians, including 14 minors,
were on Tuesday repatriated from Tunisia by the International
Organisation for Migration (IOM).
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 (NEMA) was one of the agencies that
received the deportees at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA),
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 (NAN) 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.
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