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Ninety-two Nigerians who were deported by the British government on Thursday landed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. The Nigerians who arrived the Lagos airport aboard a chartered plane with registration number 509 around 9.00am consisted of 77 males and 15 females.

“Two of them were brought home on drug-related cases, four of them on police cases, while the rest were on immigration offenses,” said an immigration source at the international airport who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Deportees lament new law

A few deportees contacted by NEXT at the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) premises, expressed their sadness at a new law put in place by the British government, explaining that the initiative had led to the “massive deportation” embarked upon by the government. A female deportee who insisted on giving only her first name, Ann, said: “I am being frustrated, I can’t do anything now. I have been in detention for over one week before I was deported. I have been in London since 2004.

“I have always been renewing my documents until now that I was deported because it is their new law that Nigerians should be repatriated back. I have everything including cars, and I work in a good place; but even people that have children were also repatriated from London,” she said.

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