Lagos Deports Another 70 People To Onitsha

No fewer than 70 people who were allegedly deported by the Lagos State government were sighted in the commercial city of Onitsha yesterday.

They were allegedly brought in a trailer and escorted by a police patrol van with heavily armed police men which, after discharging them at the popular Upper Iweka flyover at about 3.20am, made a U–turn and headed back to Lagos.

Some of deportees said they had been in detention for many years before they were finally released and put in a trailer and brought to Onitsha.

The eyewitness said “I was woken up by the light from the police escort van when it reached the fly over. I noticed that a trailer was coming behind the police patrol van and suddenly the trailer stopped and they began to ask these people to come down. It was then I noticed that there were some people who could not alight from the trailer on their own and the driver and some policemen helped them and brought them down. Immediately after dropping them, the lorry and the police van made a “U” turn and headed back to Head Bridge.When the day broke, I saw about 70 persons that looked malnourished, some of them were already insane.”

According to him, the healthy people ran into the commercial city after they were brought into the town, while the apparently insane ones stayed till daybreak.

It is the second time this type of drop has been made this year.


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