November 03, (THEWILL) – The Federal Government on Wednesday received 162 stranded Nigerians repatriated from Libya.
The returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 2.10am on Wednesday.
They were received by the Port Health Unit of the Federal Ministry of Health, National Commission for Resilience, Migration and IDPs, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and the Nigerian Immigration Services (NIS).
The returnees included 98 adult females, 28 adult males, 19 female children, five male children, nine female infants, and three male infants.
The Southwest Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye, said five of the returnees have various degrees of health related issues.
He said they were repatriated to the country by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), through the Voluntary Repatriation Programme.
The IOM noted that it had assisted over 22,000 distressed Nigerians back to the country since 2017.
Thereturnees, according to the IOM, are people who left the country to seek greener pastures in various European countries but could not afford to return when their journey was frustrated.
