US deports 41 Nigerians

BY IGANTIUS AGBA, AVIATION CORRESPONDENT
The United States immigration unit has sent 41
Nigerians packing for the breach of various laws in
the country. The 41 Nigerians (all males) were
returned to the country through the Murtala
Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on a
chartered aircraft, Miami Air International with
the registration number N733MA. The aircraft
touched down the Lagos airport at about 12:20noon
Nigerian time.
It was learnt that nine of the deported Nigerians
were repatriated for drug related offence, 26 for
various police cases, while the other six were
returned for the breach of the US immigration
laws. Their deportation comes less than a week
after 162 Nigerians were returned from Libya for
entering the country illegally.
According to immigration sources at the airport,
the Nigerians who were deported because of
criminal offences in the USA would be further
detailed and interrogated to ascertain if they
required any form of rehabilitation before being
set free to enter into the country and mix freely
with the Civil population. Those who were however
deported for the breach of the US immigration
laws were released to go to their various
destinations after passing through Immigration
profiling that ascertained they were Nigerian
citizens.