The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday announced that it has received another batch of Nigerian returnees from Libya who were stranded in the North African country.
Director-General, Mustapha Habib told newsmen on Wednesday that 128 persons returned via the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos.
He explained that they left Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli, Tuesday night, aboard a chartered Buraq Boeing 100-800 aircraft with registration 5A-DMG.
Habib who was represented by the Acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, Ibrahim Farinloye, disclosed that 90 are males and 38 females.
‘They had left the country to seek greener pastures in various European countries but could not afford to return when their journey became frustrated‘, Habib said.
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The DG advised the returnees and others to look beyond seeking better livelihood outside Nigeria.
He assured them that the Federal Government would provide an enabling environment where citizens would prosper.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) assisted in the voluntary repatriation programme for those in distress.
Africa Today News, New York had in December reported that Nigerian authorities had revealed that it had received no fewer than 158 fresh Nigerian returnees from Libya.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the IOM has been the ones assisting several Nigerians back to the country since 2012 in a special programme sponsored by the European Union for young Nigerians who had intended travelling out of the country in search of greener pastures but got stranded in Libya.
Till date, no about 19,000 Nigerians have been brought back to the country courtesy of them.
Many of these Nigerians have been caught in the web of desperately trying to leave Nigeria in search for better Economic opportunities and prospects but it has often backfired as many of those who start the journeys often don’t make it to Europe alive.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK