Deportees dropped off by the UK government at the Murtala Mohammed Interanational Airport last year
About 40 Nigerians were deported from London, United Kingdom and Australia for alleged immigration related offences on Wednesday.
The deportees were dropped off at the Murtala Mohammed International. It would be recalled that just last November, about 48 Nigerians were left embarrassed and stranded after they were deported by UK.
36 of the latest deportees comprising 29 males and seven females were dumped at the Cargo terminal of the airport at about 8:00 a.m.
They arrived on a chartered aircraft with registration number ZTA -474 while Air Seychelles with registration number SND-1 brought four males into the country for similar immigration offences.
They were received by various agencies including the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) which checked their identities to ascertain their nationalities; the Police, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) and other relevant stakeholders.
It was learnt that the deportees were not only Nigerians. Some of the deportees, it was learnt, became violent when immigration officials attached to the international wing of the airport tried to get their fingerprints for documentation.
The arrival of the deportees was confirmed by the Public Relations Officer of Immigration, Mr. Ekpedeme King.