97 Nigerians deported from South Africa for alleged civil and criminal offences
arrived Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, late Monday night. The
deportees, arrived Nigeria aboard a chartered aircraft with registration number
GBB710 from Johannesburg, South Africa.
They
comprised of 95 males and two females. Six of the deportees were said to have
been deported for drug related offences, while 10 were arrested and deported
for criminal offences. Others allegedly committed immigration offences.
According
to a Nigerian Immigration source: “Those deported for drug and criminal
offences have been handed over to the police for prosecution, while others with
civil cases were left to go home after profiling by the officials of the
Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, at the airport.
This incident follows the recent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.
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