The United
Kingdom on Wednesday stated that 50 Nigerians were deported after having
committed various offences while in the country.
The deportees, made of 44 males and six females, were
flown into Nigeria at about 6:30 a.m. aboard a chartered B767 aircraft belonging
to PITAN Airways.
NAN reports that they were received and screened at the
cargo terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport by officials of
the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS).
A reliable source at the Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria (FAAN) told NAN that some of them were deported for immigration-
related offences.
The source, who pleaded anonymity, said some of them
called their friends and relations to pick them up, while others secured cabs
to take them to their various destinations.
According to the source, others alleged to have committed
criminal offences were handed over to officers from the Force Criminal
Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos.
The source noted that FAAN was expecting no fewer than
500 deportees, adding that this was only the first batch.
NAN recalled that the Acting Nigerian High Commissioner
to the UK, Mr Olukunle Bamgbose, had recently disclosed that the UK Government
had plans to deport about 29,000 Nigerians.
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