The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received another batch of 161 stranded Nigerians from Mtiga in Libya.
The acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, NEMA, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, received the returnees on Thursday night in Lagos.
Farinloye said that the Nigerians arrived the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, late on Thursday night.
According to him, the returnees were brought via Al Buraq Air Boeing 737 aircraft with flight number UZ 189 and registration number 5A-DMG.
He said that the Nigerians were brought by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and European Union on the platform of the Assisted Voluntary Returnees (AVR) Programme.
Farinloye also said that the returnees comprised of 48 female adults, four female children, five female infants as well as 102 adult males, one male child and one infant male. It Was reported that other agencies that received the returnees included the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
Farinloye said:
One of the returnees, an indigene of Akure, Ondo State, who preferred anonymity, while narrating her ordeal, said she was 19 years when she left Nigeria.
The returnee said that she spent a year and three months before she decided to return to Nigeria. She explained that she left Nigeria due to pressure on her when her mother had mental health problems and the father of her child abandoned them.
According to her, feeding became a serious problem, my siblings could not continue schooling and they dropped out of school.
According to her, trying to send something through a Nigerian, you have to part with the same amount you wish to send. She explained that a Nigerian would collect cash and asked his relation in Nigeria to send half of the amount to the person that the money was meant for,” she said.
The returnee said:
“I learnt IOM and other organisations are helping people like us. “ I want to complete my fashion designing apprenticeship but need to source for a means of feeding while I am under apprenticeship.”
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