465 Nigerians Evacuated From Libya Arrive In Port Harcourt

THE fourth batch of 465 Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday.

South-south Zonal Coordinator of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr. Martins Ejike, who received the returnees, told newsmen that they arrived at the Port Harcourt International Airport about 12.25 a.m. on board Max Air.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ejike said the evacuation of Nigerians stranded in Libya had been a huge success, in spite of some challenges in that country during the negotiations for their return.

He added that the Federal Government had put every mechanism in place to fast-track the evacua- tion of the returnees, as every process needed for the evacuation was taking place step by step. He expressed joy over the response of states in picking up their indigenes at the evacuation centre, following NEMA’S earlier dissatisfaction over states not collecting their indigenes on time, noting: “I am happy that the last set of returnees at the centre were all taken back to their various states on January 15,” he said.

Ejike said the agency would contact state governors for prompt evacuation of the returnees from the Port Harcourt centre. The Public Relations Officer of Max Air, Mr. Muhammad Dahiru, said the exercise was hitchfree, adding: “We did not have any security challenges in Libya.