About sixteen young Nigerians suspected to be migrating to Lebanon illegally were this morning intercepted and denied departures by the Nigeria Immigration Services ( NIS) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos
The young Nigerians who were described as potential illegal workers in the Middle East country, were intercepted at the immigration control post in the airport while attempting to board a 10: 00am flight after the airline officials had issued them boarding passes.
A reliable immigration source which confirmed the development to africanbusniesstravel.com.ng said: “it is true that about 16 young Nigerians who wanted to migrate illegally to Lebanon were denied departures, because they didn’t have the required documents for their travellings”
The source however declined to make further comment on the development because it didn’t have the permission to do so.
Our correspondent reported that some of the relations of the affected passengers were seen lamenting their losses. Some of them were heard making calls to some people suspected to be the agents to the would be immigrants in Lebanon
While many of them didn’t return tickets and or hotel reservations, some of them were without required Basic Travelling Allowances (BTA).
Further investigations by africanbusinesstravel.com.ng revealed that the insistence of the NIS to deny the passengers departures, may cause a lot of disaffections between the agents and would be employers in Lebanon.
It would be recalled that recently some young ladies from some ECOWAS countries who attempted to use Nigerian airports as routes to migrate illegally to Arab countries were intercepted and denied departures and later handed over to officials of their countries in Nigeria
