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More countries send Nigerians packing as Spain deports 23
The growing and disturbing scenes of Nigerians being sent back home from other countries, African nations inclusive, continued on Tuesday with the deportation of 23 from Spain.
In what has become a regular occurrence, analysts contend that, the countries sending them home are even magnanimous as several of them are wasting in jails across the world for various alleged offences.
Only about five days ago, 34 Nigerians were deported from six European countries for immigration-related offences.
The 34 of them were jointly sent home from six European countries of Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Austria, Belgium and Hungary on June 22.
The 23 sent home from Spain today (Tuesday) were said to have committed varying offences involving drugs among other crimes.
They arrived at the Murtala Mohammad International Airport (MMlA) Lagos, at about 6.45am and included 21 males and two females. They were sent home in an aircraft with registration number EC-IZO.
The Lagos Airport Police Command spokesperson, Joseph Alabi, who made this known to newsmen, explained that the deportees were received by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the Police.
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Also at the airport to receive them according to Alabi were officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
He further explained that nine of the deportees with drug-related offences were handed over to the NDLEA and that two sent home for criminal crimes handed over to the police.
The remaining 12 he said, were sent home on allegation of breaching their countries of abode immigration rules and so were profiled and allowed to go to their respective destinations.
From Libya, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany and so many other countries it has been stories of alarming deportation of Nigerians in their numbers of recent.
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