National News Special Report
171 STRANDED NIGERIANS RETURN FROM LIBYA
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Afnews Editor
Jul 26, 2019
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received
another batch of 171 stranded Nigerians from Libya.
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Alhaji Idris Muhammed, Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office
of NEMA, who was represented by Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Public Information
Officer, confirmed the development to newsmen on Friday.
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Muhammed said the returnees arrived the Cargo Wing of the
Murtala Muhammed International Airport about 1.10 am on Friday.
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He said that they arrived aboard an Al Buraq Airline
aircraft with registration number 5A-DMG and flight number UZ 196/25.
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According to him, the returnees were brought back by the
International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and European Union under the
Assisted Voluntary Returnees (AVR) Programme.
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Muhammed added the figure comprised 61 female adults, one
female child and five female infants, as well as 98 adult males, one male child
and five male infants.
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He advised Nigerian youths to be wary of overseas love
advances from strangers, noting that this was now one of the tactics being used
by human traffickers to lure them outside the country.
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The coordinator said the traffickers were now contacting
ladies via social media apps, especially Facebook and WhatsApp, and making fake
marriage proposals to them, to deceive them into travelling outside Nigeria.
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He cited a particular case when a lady sought advice about a
man who simply called himself Ali, who claimed to be living in Sudan.
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"Upon critical observation, the code number of the caller
indicated that it belongs to Libyan code, and the man that makes video calls
was an Arab; but he was not making statements for the lady to hear him.
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"It was understood that the man cannot communicate in
English, but someone behind the scene was responsible for the chatting with the
lady," NAN quoted him as saying.
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Muhammed advised young Nigerians planning to leave the
country to make use of the Migrant Resource Centres, jointly set up by the
government and the IOM, to know more about their destination countries.
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