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Libya deports 1,000 Nigerians From Shakirat Abdulmajeed, in Lagos Over one thousand Nigerians living in Libya were deported to the country over immigration and other offences. The deportees mostly youth and middle-age men and women were deported in batches aboard chartered Libya aircraft and accompanied by security personnel from Libya. Some of the deportees who arrived the NAHCO shed section of Murtala Muhammed International Airport; Lagos on Friday told newsmen that they were told by government officials to contact their relative in Nigeria. They hinted that they were arrested at their various places of work by the Libyan security personnel, following order by the Nigerian government that they should be repatriated. One of the deportees by name Susan Ray said they were deported based on President Olusegun Obasanjo’s claim that the economic situation in Nigeria has improved. Ray who claimed to own a restaurant in Libya said that President Obasanjo had during his several visits to Libya insisted that the Nigerian economy has bounced back, which prompted the Libya government to deport them. Her words: “I am a native of Benin City in Edo State. I left the country in 2002 and I operated a restaurant in Libyan. The whole thing started about three months ago when President Obasanjo repeated several times that we should come back. They started maltreating us and we later learnt that Ghadafi said we should be allowed to go.” Another deportee, Dare Alanribido alleged that the reason they were deported was that Libyan government acted on European Union claims that they were crossing the Europe through the Mediterranean Sea without necessary papers. He noted that the Libyan government made funds available to Embassies to ferry their national’s home but that the Nigerian embassy did not come to their rescue. His words: “both people with and without papers were deported because the government said they don’t want black. They made money available to the various embassies to deport their people but the Nigerian embassy did not render any financial assistance to us.” However, efforts to get the reaction of immigration at Lagos Airport proved abortive as the controller was said to be out of Lagos on official assignment.     TO NEXT NEWS PAGE...

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