ANOTHER 153 STRANDED NIGERIANS RETURN FROM LIBYA

The Director General said the returnees were brought via Al Buraq Air Boeing 737 aircraft with flight number UZ 189 and registration number 5A-DMG,adding  that they  were brought by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and European Union on the platform of the Assisted Voluntary Returnees (AVR) Programme.

Penpushing further reports that, he explained that the returnees comprised 59 female adults, four female children and seven female infants as well as 78 adult males, three male children and two male infants.

The other agency which participated in receiving the returnees included the Nigeria Immigration Service, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Edo Task Force on Anti-Trafficking.

Penpushing also recalled that, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) , in July 2018 announced that it received a batch of 160 Assisted Voluntary Returnees from Libya who were stranded in failed attempts to reach different European countries.