BEVERLY HILLS, February 28, (THEWILL) – The South African Government has deported 97 Nigerians for committing various offences in the country.
This comes on the heels of the recent attacks on Nigerians in the country during which the property of several Nigerians and other sub-Saharan Africans were destroyed across South Africa.
While asking its citizens to stop the attacks, the South African government has also blamed illegal immigrants from Nigeria and other countries, as well immigrants who commit crime for the attacks.
The government thus decided to clamp down on such immigrants and sent 97 Nigerians packing.
The deportees landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Monday night in a chartered aircraft with the registration number GBB710 from Johannesburg.
NAN reports that they were made up of 95 males and two females while Joseph Alabi, the spokesperson of the Lagos Airport Police Command, confirmed the development.
Six of the deportees were returned to the country for drug offences, 10 were arrested and deported for other criminal offences while the others were said to have committed immigration offences in the Southern African country.
All the deportees were profiled by officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) while those deported for drug related offences were handed over to the Police for further investigation.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government had also on Monday evacuated 41 Nigerian girls who were trafficked to Mali for sex and labour exploitation.
Six of the suspected human traffickers were also apprehended and brought back to the country for prosecution.
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