The National Emergency Management Agency and other stakeholders have received 103 Nigerians who were deported from the Republic of Turkey back to Nigeria.
NEMA and other Federal Government representatives met the deportees when they arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Friday at 7:00 p.m. via the airport’s pilgrims wing.
The deportees were transported from Turkiye to Nigeria via Southwind Airlines flight TCGRB.
The NEMA Director General, Mrs. Zubaida Umar, cautioned the returnees to respect the law and accept their experience in good faith.
In order to ease their experience and allay the Federal Government’s concerns about their situation, the returnees were treated with dignity, according to the DG NEMA, who was represented by Alhaji Bashir Garga, Director, North Central Zone.
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Umar declared that they would have assistance with their transportation to their different locations in the form of a token financial support.
After being screened by officials of the Port Health Authority, profiling was done by NEMA and NCFRMI; they were cleared by NIS and given transportation to aid their movement to their various destinations.
Officials from the Nigerian Immigration Service, the National Commission for Refugees, Migrant and Internally Displaced Persons, and the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons joined forces to receive the deportees.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria are the others.
There were also representatives from the National Intelligence Agency and the Port Health Authority.
NAN.
