Germany, Italy and Belgium now deporting Nigerians

Around 43 Nigerians were on Thursday deported from Italy, Germany and Belgium, for committing different offenses. 

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deportees touched base at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMlA), Lagos at around 8.40 p.m. 

The deportees, who are all male, were carried back with a contracted Hifly flying machine with enrollment number CS-TQW, in the midst of tight security. 

Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, the Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), affirmed the improvement to NAN. 

He said 33 of the deportees were from Italy, while the other seven and another three were deported

from Germany and Italy, separately.

Sidi, spoke to by Dr Onimode Bandele, the Deputy Director, Search and Rescue, NEMA, said NEMA and other sister organizations were at the airplane terminal to get the deportees. 

"They were deported for committing different offenses in their host nations and as should be obvious, our organizations are here to do the needful. 

"As a dependable government, we can't simply leave our subjects to enter the nation without giving them a decent welcome and helping them to return to their families," he said. 

Sidi prompted Nigerians to remain in the nation and create it together. 

He said a few stipends would be given to the deportees to encourage their transportation to their different goals. 

NAN reports that different organizations who were at the airplane terminal to get the deportees included authorities of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigeria Immigration Service. (NAN)