Second group of 487 Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived Port Harcourt International Airport

The second group of 487 Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived Port Harcourt International Airport at around 10.43 p.m. on Monday in Max Air. On Friday, the Federal Government reported the establishment of the reception centres in Port Harcourt for 5,037 Nigerians being cleared from Libya.

Libya returnees on landed at Port Harcourt International Airport on Sunday.

Nwankpa Chijioke The returnees were gotten by authorities of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), drove delegates from other Federal Government organizations.

NEMA authorities passed on the returnees to Haji camp where they were profiled and fed. Authorities were on ground to check the returnees' body temperature and furthermore gave quick emergency treatment to those who is require. Authorities additionally said 487 returnees are relied to be transported back to their prospective state in a couple of days.

The Federal Government, on Monday, said it has so far emptied 1,030 stranded Nigerian vagrants from Libya between Jan. 7 and Jan 8. Mustapha Maihaja, the Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency, revealed this at a joint news meeting by the Federal Government appointment to Libya.

Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, had on Jan. 5 led a delegation on fact finding mission to Libya to secure the release of Nigerian migrants stranded in that country.

Onyeama said the Nigerian mission in Libya was coordinating the identification of the Nigerian migrants with the support of International Organisation for Migration.

According to him, they are being joined by a technical team comprising representatives from NEMA, Immigration and other relevant Nigerian government agencies.

The minister said that the political and security challenges in that country made it difficult to secure the evacuation of some Nigerians back home. He added that “there are different centres of power in that country.

The central government recognised by the UN and AU do not have full control of the territories controlled by rebels.” He pointed out that there were over 50 detention camps in Libya, many of them under the control of rebels and militia groups.