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Africa North
Libya Repatriates 162 Nigerian Migrants
2021-11-05
Yesterday’s report said 91.
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Libya’s Anti-Illegal Migration Agency has repatriated 163 Nigerian migrants colonists, including women and kiddies through Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
’s Mitiga International Airport.

The agency said in a statement that the repatriation was carried out by the Interior Ministry and the Office of the Attorney General in coordination with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), as part of the voluntary return program for migrants colonists. A medical examination and COVID-19 tests were conducted for the travellers.

Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed that the migrants colonists arrived in the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos.

The NEMA coordinator said five of the returnees were found to have health-issues after screening by Port Health officials, according to Nigeria’s news website ’The Nation’.

Notably, the Sahara Reporters news agency stated that a number of Nigerians in Libya have requested help after government officials raided their homes during an immigration crackdown.

In a video shared by Igbere TV, a Nigerian woman who claimed she lives in Tripoli accused the Libyan government of sending security operatives to break into the houses of migrants colonists and arrest them.

She pleaded with the Nigerian government to come to their rescue:

"We need the help of the Nigerian government. Look at what they are doing to us. They will just break into the houses of Nigerians, Ghanaians, and other African nationals, they arrest you and dump you inside prison. They also arrested pregnant women and their children and dumped them inside prison. The Nigerian government should come to our rescue, please. If it was that they arrested these people and they deported them to Nigeria or their respective countries, it would have been better, but they don’t do that. For three days now, we haven’t left our houses, we are scared, please help us," she claimed.
Related:
International Organization for Migration: 2021-11-04 UN repatriates 91 migrants from Libya to Niger in a rare humanitarian flight
International Organization for Migration: 2021-10-18 Migrant found dead on boat in Spain's Canary Islands
International Organization for Migration: 2021-10-17 Attorney General Identifies Officer who Killed Migrant in Libya
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