OREDOLA ADEOLA
After several attempts to stop the United Kingdom Immigration Office by the National Assembly and concerned Nigerians in UK, from conducting its monthly deportations of illegal immigrants into the country, the UK authority has finally deported about 49 out of 29,000 illegal immigrants.
The deportees arrived Muritala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, at the early hours of today in a chartered Titan Airways flight, which left London Stansted Airport on Tuesday, November 24, at about 10:30 pm. The flight arrived Lagos around 6.00am.
The decision according to UK authority is parts of the country's monthly exercise to deport Nigerian arrested for immigration and other criminal offences.
It would be recalled that the acting Nigerian High Commissioner in London, Mr Olukunle Bamgbose, had earlier informed the Vice President , Yemi Osinbajo of the British High Commission's plan to deport about 29,000 Nigerians from the United Kingdom. According to him the UK authorities' decision to deport the affected Nigerians came on the heels of a migration crisis created by the troubled regions in the world.
The Editorials gathered through a reliable immigration officer, that the deportees are part of the 29,000 deportees marked to be deported into the country in batches by the UK immigration office.
