The National Emergency
Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday received another batch of 168 stranded
Nigerian returnees from Libya. The Acting Coordinator, NEMA Lagos Territorial
Office, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, received the returnees on behalf of the
Director-General of NEMA at the cargo wing of the Murtala Muhammed International
Airport in Lagos.
Farinloye told newsmen that the returnees arrived in the
country aboard a chartered Al Buraq airline with flight number UZ289/190 at
5:42 a.m after 12 hours delay. He said that 38 female adults, five female
children were returned with 109 adult males, six male children and 10 infants,
among others.
He said that this had brought the total number of returnees
from Libya from April 2017 to date to 8,096 males and 5,788 females. “This has
brought the total number of returnees brought to Nigeria from 16 countries to
15,731 since April 2017 to date. Farinloye, while qouting the summary of the
special EU-IOM and Federal Government intervention from 2017 to October 2019,
said that Libya had the highest number of returnees with 8,096 males and 5,788
females. ” Nigeria returnees from Niger Republic stood at 1,043 males and 556
females; Morocco male 42, female 37; Liberia male eight and female four. ”
Burkina Faso male six, female 18, France male three, female one, while Ireland
had only one female, but countries like Poland, Austria, Gambia, Mauritania,
Ethiopia had one male each assisted back. ” Chad had one male, two females and
Cote D’ivoire had only two females brought back within the period,” Farinloye
said. According to him, ”Estimated, adults males are 54 per cent, 37 per cent
are for female, while male and female minors stood at four per cent each. ALSO
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vein, the distressed migrants brought back per state of origin shows 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.” He said those who suffered various degrees of torture were 31 males
and 21 females, while unaccompanied minors that were assisted back in males were
66 males and 67 females. Farinloye added that those who were kidnapped out of
Nigeria, but assisted back to the country were 79 males, 31 females, while
single parents male were 41 and female were 616. He said total number of
pregnant women brought back so far were 439, while those with various medical
issues were 592 males and 804 females. Migrants assisted back with psychosocial
needs are 523 males and 470.
Source: [NAN]