The German Government has deported a new batch of Nigerian migrants. According to reports, the migrants have already left Frankfurt Airport at 8:00am and were expected to land in Nigeria’s Murtala Mohammed International Airport between 2:00m and 3pm.
The number of migrants deported was not ascertained as at the time of this report. It was, however, gathered that they were picked randomly from different accommodation centres. It would be recalled last month that two batches of Nigerians were sent back home from the European country.
“The flight will be from Frankfurt on Monday, August 19. For those who have been given the information, the plane will take off by 8:00am and arrive in Nigeria between 2pm and 3pm.
“Those who will be deported will be picked randomly from their different accommodation centres from 3am till 5am in different regions and conveyed to a central place and finally to Frankfurt Airport,” the Co-ordination Activist for Network Refugees 4Refugees, a political platform for refugees and migrant self-organisation based, in Stuttgart, Germany, Rex Osa, said.
Osa added: “When their asylum application is already expired, they are obligated to leave the country. “For those who don’t leave voluntarily, they will be given a what is I can translate in English to mean toleration status. This status is not a resident title; it is to show that the person is still there because the deportation is hindered because of one reason or the other.
“These people are picked up early in the morning without expecting the police. Some would be picked up from work also. When the police arrive in their rooms, they would be allowed to pack things not more than say 64 kilos. The police will be standing to make sure the person does not escape.”
The activist urged the Federal Government to come to the aid of the victims as many of them are coming with a myriad of challenges.
Recall that some Nigerians had attacked a former deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, in Germany recently. He was almost lynched by the mob suspected to be members of the proscribed separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra.
