The Spanish Government on Tuesday deported 23 Nigerians for
committing various offences in the country, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports.
They were deported barely five days after 34 Nigerians were
sent home from six European countries for committing immigration-related
offences.
34 Nigerians were jointly deported by six European countries
on June 22 for committing immigration-related offences.
The deportees were sent back home from
Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Austria, Belgium and Hungary.
The new set of deportees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport (MMlA) Lagos, at about 6.40 a.m on Tuesday.
The new deportees, comprising 21 males and two females, were
brought back in a privilege style aircraft with registration number EC-IZO.
DSP Joseph Alabi, the spokesman of the Lagos Airport Police
Command, confirmed the development to NAN.
Alabi said that the deportees were received by officers of
the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the National Agency for the Prohibition
of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the Police.
He said that others also on ground to receive them were
officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
According to him, nine of the deportees, who were
deported for drug-related offences, were handed over to the NDLEA.
He said that two others, who were deported for criminal
offences, were handed over to the police.
Alabi said that the remaining 12 deportees, accused of
breaching the country’s immigration rules, were profiled and allowed to go to
their respective destinations.
NAN
