Several Nigerians who migrated to Libya illegal have returned home after a turbulent time abroad.
The Libya returnees at the airport
One hundred and seventy-one Nigerian returnees from Libya yesterday arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, recounting their ordeal.
The returnees were received by Special Adviser to the President on Diaspora and Foreign Affairs Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who cautioned Nigerians to desist from dangerous search for greener in Libya.
She said yesterday’s number of 171 brings to over 1,000 returnees, who have been brought home from Libya in the last two years. The returnees were 112 women, 49 men and five infants.
They were flown in aboard an Airbus 320 belonging to Nouvelair with registration number TS – INB that landed about 4.13p.m. The returnees were also received by officials of International Organisation of Migration (IOM), Nigerian Immigration Service, Police, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and other security agencies.
Speaking in an interview with reporters at the Hajj Camp axis of the Lagos Airport, Mrs. Dabiri-Erewa admonished the returnees not to see themselves as criminals, but Nigerians who have experience of seeking greener pastures, but could now tell a different story.
She cautioned parents to advise their children against such risky ventures of travelling to foreign lands without knowing the risks involved. She urged state governments to design empowerment programmes for the returnees to enable them pick their lives back.
She said the Federal Government was committed to ensuring that such people were rehabilitated after their experience abroad.
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