The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received 191 stranded Nigerians from India.
The returnees were evacuated by NEMA on behalf of the Nigerian Government and they arrived in an Ethiopian Airlines chartered flight, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
The evacuees were welcomed by a team led by NEMA and other relevant agencies after they were profiled and screened.
The returnees were then given a token of one hundred U.S. dollars each, to aid their transportation back to their respective destinations.
While addressing the returnees, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, who was represented by Dr Suleiman Abubakar, welcomed them back to Nigeria on behalf of the Federal Government and urged them to be law-abiding.
She said the token given to them by the government was meant to support their movement home.
In the same vein, Director-General, NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed, who was represented by the Deputy Director, Search and Rescue, Mr Ishaya Chonoko, urged the returnees to learn from their experiences and be law-abiding citizens.
He said the Federal Government had approved the evacuation to reduce the suffering of Nigerians stranded abroad.
While speaking on behalf of the returnees, Mr Iwuchukwu Gospel thanked the Federal Government for the special intervention in their safe evacuation back home.
He said: “We thank the government for bringing us back, though for myself I went there some months back and when I got there, I saw that Nigeria was better than where I went to.
“I made up my mind that I am coming back, but I want to plead with the Federal Government to help bring others back.”
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