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LIBYA: Nigeria commences mass evacuation of stranded citizens

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A Federal Government delegation has arrived Libya to commence mass evacuation of Nigerians stranded in the country.

Head of Media and Public Relations, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Sani Datti, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

Datti said the delegation was led by Geoffrey Onyema, Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by the Director-General of NEMA, Mustapha Maihaja, and other heads of relevant agencies.

He added that the delegation arrived Tripoli on Wednesday ahead of the evacuation operation expected to commence on Friday.

The stranded Nigerians would be transported with two indigenous carriers engaged for the exercises, Datti revealed.

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“A total of 5, 037 stranded citizens have been identified for evacuation home.

“The Nigerian mission in Libya is coordinating the identification of the Nigerian migrants with the support of the International Organisation for Migration.

“They are being joined by a technical team for the evacuation exercise comprising representatives of all relevant agencies.

“A reception centre has been established in Port Harcourt where the returnees on their arrival would be formally received and profiled before being transported to their various states,” Datti said.

He said the evacuation exercises was being led by the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and coordinated by the National Emergency Management Agency with the involvement of all the relevant agencies.

Datti said that the delegation include Sadiya Farouq, the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Julie Okah-Donli, the Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking.

Others are Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service, Muhammadu Babandede, and representatives of other security agencies.

 

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  1. Ambrose Echemazu

    January 5, 2018 at 4:52 am

    Justice and fair play must begin at home. If Government treats her citizens as human beings, other countries will also learn to respect those citizens even when they are in foreign lands. But if Government allows the cattle herdsmen to slaughter her citizens, other countries will rape those citizens, remove their kidneys and then slaughter them in foreign lands. Nigeria should do the needful.

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