The Federal Government in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has safely returned 145 stranded Nigerians from Libya under the IOM Voluntary Humanitarian Return programme.

This is contained in a statement by Chargé d’Affaires of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, Ambassador KABIRU MUSA.

According to MUSA, the stranded Nigerians were in various detention centres for living illegally in Libya and without travel documents.

The envoy said that the Federal Government with the usual support of IOM evacuated the irregular migrants who expressed willingness to return home after the difficult circumstances they found themselves in while in detention.

He explained that the exercise is part of the Federal Government’s continuing efforts at ensuring that no Nigerian citizen is left to suffer in a foreign land. 

MUSA stated that the Federal Government will continue to work collaboratively with IOM to repatriate stranded Nigerians in Libya under the Voluntary Humanitarian Return programme.