The Federal Government said, yesterday, that it has so far
identified 2,778 Nigerians trapped in the Libyan detention camps. Of this
figure, it said 250 would be repartriated yesterday, as part of the 250 that
were being repartriated every week. So far the government said 3,000 have so
far returned from the Libyan enclave.
Foreign Affairs ministry spokesman, Tiwatope Elias-Fatiile,
said in the statement that the 2778 were Nigerians identified in detention
camps that embassy officials had been visiting. Those registered in these
camps, the spokesman said, were issued with emergency travel certificates.
While the government indicated that the repatriation
exercise was a continuous exercise, it noted that it would continue to engage
the legitimate government in Libya and other stakeholders in addressing the
plight of Nigerian migrants in that country.
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