97 Nigerians have
been deported from South Africa for committing various offences in the country.
The deportees
landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Monday night in
a chartered aircraft with the registration number GBB710 from Johannesburg, the
News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports.
Confirming the
report, the spokesman of the Lagos Airport Police Command explained that they
were made up of 95 males and two females.
An immigration
source who spoke on condition of anonymity said that six of the deportees were
returned to the country for drug offences while 10 were arrested and deported
for other criminal offences.
The others were
said to have committed immigration offences in the Southern African country.
All the deportees
were profiled by officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) while those
deported for drug-related offences were handed over to the Police for further
investigation.
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