The Federal Government on Saturday received no fewer than
198 Nigerians illegally residing in Saudi Arabia at the Aminu Kano
International Airport, Kano, at about 10 a.m.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this number
was out of the 1,800 Nigerians living illegally in Saudi Arabia, who were given
amnesty to return to the country.
NAN reports that the 198 persons including women and children
returned with their luggage on board a Med-View aircraft.
Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)
in Kano received the first batch of the returnees.
Mohammed Yahaya-Sani, the Consular at the Nigerian Consulate
in Jedda, Saudi Arabia, who led the illegal immigrants to Nigeria, told
journalists at the airport that the Federal Government sponsored their return.
“They decided on their own to return to Nigeria. The Saudi
authorities offered amnesty to all illegal immigrants to leave the country
within three months,” he said.
The official handed over the returnees to NEMA officials at
the airport who witnessed and documented their returns before they later
departed to their various towns and villages.
Most of them will move to Libya in no distant time and find their way back to Saudi or Spain.
Na me talk am.
(NAN)
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