About 90 Nigerians deported from Tunisia on Tuesday arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
As said by the South West Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Mr. Iyiola Akande, the deportees arrived Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos in Nouvel Air Airbus 320-214 with registration quantity 177Y at 12:32 am.
They have been earlier scheduled to reach three:05 pm on Monday.
The South West Zonal Coordinator said that the repatriation was facilitated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) with the assist of Tunisian authorities.
The returnees have been obtained by numerous companies similar to Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) that checked their identities to establish their nationalities, NAPTIP, Police and different stakeholders.
He said the returnees consisted of two infants of 5 months and fourteen months previous, 12 youngsters, 13 younger girls and 61 younger males.
He disclosed that 71 of them got here from Edo state, eight from Delta State; three from Imo State, three from Lagos State, 2 from Kano State and 1 from Plateau State.
One of the deportees, Success Smart, a 15 yr of teenage woman claimed that she travelled out of the Nigeria two years in the past by the tedious Libyan route.
On why she didn't return with the sooner batch throughout Libyan repatriation train, she said.she was studying a vocation to develop into a hairdresser and that her dad and mom refused to signal settlement along with her grasp as an apprentice whereas she was in Nigeria.
She, nonetheless, regretted travelling in a foreign country and urged different Nigerian youths towards in search of greener pasture overseas.
The deportees said that there isn't a disaster in Tunisia however that there isn't a nation place like house.
Akande disclosed that officers of National Agency for Protection and Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have taken over the instances of the youngsters for re-orientation and rehabilitation actions.