Ebun Francis with agency report || The South African Government has deported 97 Nigerians for committing various offences in the country.
The affected Nigerians, 95 males, and two females – arrived at Murtala Muhammed International Airport from Johannesburg on Monday night.
An immigration in the airport said that six of the deportees were returned to the country for drug offences while 10 were arrested and deported for other criminal offences . The remaining ones were said to have committed various immigration offences in the South African Country.
The property of several Nigerians and other sub-Saharan Africans have been destroyed across South Africa in xenophobic attacks that have been condemned by various governments.
While asking its citizens to stop the attacks, the South African government has also blamed illegal immigrants from Nigeria and other countries, as well immigrants who commit crime for the attacks. The government has thus decided to clamp down on such immigrants.
Joseph Alabi, the spokesperson of the Lagos Airport Police Command, confirmed the development.
All the deportees were profiled by officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) while those deported for drug-related offences were handed over to the Police for further investigation.