The National Emmergency Agebcy NEMA, has received fresh batch of 168 distressed and stranded Nigerians from Libya.
The Voluntary Returnees who were assisted back to Nigeria by the IOM with the support of EU in a special intervention were received at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Cargo Wing on arrival by Ibrahim Farinloye, the Acting Coordinator of NEMA Lagos Territorial Office on behalf of Director General of NEMA, Engr Mustapha Maihajja.
The Returnees who arrived the country aboard Al Buraq airline landed at about 5 : 42 a. m this morning after 12 hours delayed.
After profiling, the 38 adult females, 5 female children were brought back while 109 adult males, 6 male children and 10 infants were amongs the new Returnees. These has brought the total Returnees from Libya to 8,096 males and 5,788 females alone.
These has brought the total number of Returnees brought to Nigeria from 16 countries to 15,731 since April, 2017 till date.
Farinloye while qouting the summary of the special EU-IOM and Federal Government intervention since 2017 till October, 2019, revealed the followings as Nigerian nationals were brought back as indicated here with Libya having the highest number of Returnees with male 8,096 and female5, 788; Niger Republic 1,043 males and 556 females; Morocco males 42, female 37; Liberia males 8 and females 4; Burkina Faso males6 and females 18; France males 3 and females 1 while Ireland had only 1 female but countries like poland, Austria, Gambia, Mauritania, Ethiopia had 1 male each assisted back, chad had 1 male and 2 females and Cote D’ivoire had only 2 females brought back within the periods.
Estimatedly, adults males returned were 54% and 37% for females while male and female minors are 4% each.
In the same vein, the distressed migrants brought back per state of Origin show that Edo State topped the list with 40.6%; Delta 13.3%; Ogun 6.2%; Imo 4.7%; Lagos 4.3%; Oyo 4.1%; Yobe 3.6%; Kano 3.1% and Osun with 2.9% while other states complete the rest.
On the state of their conditions and experience those that suffered various degree torture in males were 31and females were 21; Unaccompanied minors that were assisted back in males were 66 and females were 67; those who were kidnapped out of Nigeria but assisted back in males were 79 and females were 31; single parents males 41 and females are 616; total number of pregnant women brought back so far are 439 while those with various medical issues males 592 and females 804 and migrants assisted back with psychosocial needs are males 523 and females 470 as the summary of the special intervention exercise.
