The National Emergency Management
Agency (NEMA) on Friday said a total of 6,672 Nigerians voluntarily
returned from Libya from Jan. 6 to Dec. 28.
The Director General of NEMA, Alhaji
Mustapha Maihajja, made this known while receiving a fresh batch of
257 Nigerians who arrived from Libya.
Maihajja lauded the International
Organisation for Migration (IOM) for their efforts at continuing the
repatriation exercise even during the festive season.
The DG who was represented by the
Southwest Coordinator of NEMA, Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu, enjoined the
returnees to join hands with various government agencies to tackle
the problem of human trafficking in the country.
He said they should assist the
government in identifying the traffickers who had lured and deceived
many young Nigerians to embark on the perilous journey with the
promise of taking them to Europe.
Maihajja assured them that government
would treat all information with utmost confidentiality and secrecy
needed.
The DG also allayed their fears of
facing “spiritual “consequences for exposing these evil persons,
stressing that they had a duty to educate the public on what they
went through in the volatile North African country.
The new returnees arrived the Cargo
Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 6.05pm
aboard an Afriqiyah Airbus A330-300 with Registration number 5A-OMR.
They comprised 152 adult females, 82
adult males, nine children and 14 infants, with one having a medical
case.
The returnees arrived barely 24 hours
after another batch of 157 Nigerians landed in the country from Libya
where they had been stranded enroute Europe.
*PM News
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