Standup9ja: South Africa deports 90 Nigerians
The South African government yesterday deported 90 Nigerians
over immigration-related offences. The deportees arrived the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport (MMIA), Lagos aboard a South African Airways aircraft
with registration number BBB712 from Johannesburg.
They were received by officials of the Nigerian Immigration
Service (NIS) who profiled them before they left for their various
destinations. It was the second time this year that Nigerians were deported
from South Africa.
It would be recalled that 97 Nigerians were deported on
February 28 at the peak of xenophobic attacks in that country.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Airport Command, DSP
Joseph Alabi said the 90 Nigerians were deported for “committing
immigration-related offences”, adding that some of them were living in the
country without the required documents. Many others were earlier deported from
European countries including Italy, Spain and Belgium, among others.
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