About 500 Nigerians deported by the United Kingdom government
Wednesday arrived at the Hajj and Cargo Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport (MMIA), Lagos at 8:07am local time aboard a large
chartered aircraft.
Vanguard was at the airport and observed that after all the necessary
documentation, the deportees were taken to the main entrance of the
Nacho gate where they were dispatched, while some of the deportees were
received by their relatives at the same venue.
Vanguard further learnt that Landover Company acted as the handling company in charge of evacuating the deportees.
The nacho aviance coaster buses were used to convey the deportees in
batches and one of the plates number of one of the buses reads:
MUS342BP.
It will be recalled that Nigerians living in the United Kingdom on
Monday 23rd of November 2015 cried out that the UK authorities were
planning to deport 500 Nigerians due to immigration issues and other
related offences and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on
the UK government to stop the deportation.
On ground at the airport were the Immigration Officers, TARMAC
Operations officers, The Nigeria Police Force, Airport Command, Air
Force Defence officers and other security agents who provided adequate
security during the documentation exercise of the deportees.
A relative of one of the deportees who refused to have his name
mentioned said that he came to receive his aged brother’s son who was
running his Masters Degree programme in the United Kingdom.
He said that he was surprised when he heard that his elder brother’s
son was one of those deported by the UK government adding that he had
come to the airport to pick him up.
Asked why the student was one of those deported by the UK government,
he said “I don’t know, I have never gone to the UK before. This
(Nigeria) is where I have lived all my life.
When contacted to speak on the deportation, one of the officials of
the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) told our reporter that
he had been redeployed out of the airport but stressed that he would
help the reporter with a contact which he never gave out.
Efforts to speak to some of the deportees were frustrated by security
officers as one of the Policemen accosted the reporter and threatened
to detain him but was prevailed upon by his boss who ordered the
reporter to leave the scene.
Over the years deportees arriving the country often come through the
Hajj and Cargo Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport
(MMIA), Lagos and the implication is that they (deportees) are not
regarded as regular passengers because of the necessary documentation
that would be made about each of them for future purposes.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Why 500 Nigerians were deported by United Kingdom government
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