Some Nigerians who were adjudged to have breached the law in the US have found out that the country’s immigration laws are thriving properly. Last Wednesday, the US deported 34 Nigerians over alleged immigration and other related offences.
The deportees arrived at the cargo session of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMlA, Lagos, aboard a chartered Omni Air International aircraft.
The spokesman for the Lagos Airport Police Command, Joseph Alabi, confirmed the development, saying: “At about 2:30 p.m., we received 34 Nigerians who were brought back from the US. They were made up of 32 males and two females.”
Alabi said 25 of the persons were alleged to have committed criminal offences, with one involved in narcotics. Others were alleged to have committed immigration-related offences.
He said 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. Officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, were also involved in receiving the deportees.
The Police spokesman, who said the deportees were profiled by the relevant authorities and allowed to depart to their various destinations, warned Nigerian youths eager to travel to the US to be aware of the laws that guide alien activities in that country.
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