The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday, received another batch of stranded Nigerians from Libya.
The 178 returnees, arrived at the cargo wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos around 6:20 pm aboard a Boeing 700-787 Al Buraq Airline with Registration number 5A-DMG.
Airports have it that these returnees comprising 73 adult females, 13 girls, six infant females, 63 adult males, 15 boys, and 14 infant males; were the ninth batch received this year in Lagos alone.
NEMA’s Director General (DG), Mustapha Habib Ahmed, said the returnees were assisted back to the country by International Organisation for Immigration’s (IOM) Voluntary Assisted Returnees program sponsored by the European Union (EU).
Ahmed, who was represented by the Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, Ibrahim Farinloye, urged them to look for opportunities to abound in the country and stop seeking greener pastures through irregular means.
He appealed to them to shun vices that they might have been exposed to at the country of departure, emphasizing the need to embrace peace.
Other agencies in attendance that the reception of the returnees inured the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Nigerian Security and CIVIL Defence Corps (NSCDC), Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Police and Port Health officials.
