Nigerian migrants, 158 repatriated from Libya
The Nigerian Government has repatriated 158 irregular Nigerian migrants from Libya.
Nigeria’s Charge’ d’ Affaires to Libya, Amb. Mohammed Mohammed, made this known in a statement on Wednesday.
According to the statement, Mohammed said that the group of evacuees comprised of 77 males, 45 females, 26 children as well as 10 infants.
The envoy explained that of the total number, 26 males arrested from the ongoing raid of undocumented foreigners in Libya were released from Abu-Salim Detention Centre in Tripoli.
According to him, so far, 1, 776 stranded Nigerians have returned home.
Mohammed said that the repatriation was a collaborative effort between the mission and the Libyan authorities.
He said that the collaboration was under the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) under the organisation’s Voluntary Humanitarian Repatriation (VHR).
According to him, this marks the 12th evacuation exercise carried out by the Nigerian Mission in Libya this year.
