About 500 deportees from the UK, stranded in Lagos.

About 500 Nigerians deported from the United Kingdom arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Tuesday. Some of the deportees told the BBC that they are not happy to come back home.

“One person told me that he was arrested by British police and was not allowed to even take his belongings before being deported,” the BBC said in its report.


“A few of them who say they don’t have relatives here are stranded in the airport,” the report also said.

According to other reports, the United Kingdom has the plan to deport 29,000 Nigerians.  The decision to send away those living in the country illegally has however generated a lot of debate.

The Nigerian government has however frowned at the mass deportation, stating that efforts must be made by the UK government to ensure those being deported are really Nigerians, medically fit to travel and have a role to play in the country