The International Organisation for Migration Sub-Office in Lagos on Thursday said that it had in the last five years provided assistance to about 17,000 Nigerian voluntary returnees from Libya.
IOM’s Promgramme Manager of Migrant Unit for Nigeria and Head of Lagos Sub-Office Abrham Tamrat, made the disclosure to Newsmen in Lagos.
Tamrat said that the international organisation had yearly received and assisted the returnees at different times in large numbers of 400, 450 and 900 within the period.
The IOM official said that the organisation had also provided support in areas of policy level intervention, migration data, labour and diaspora engagement, national border management strategy for National Immigration Service development.
Tamrat, who said that there were signs of reduction in the number of Nigerians embarking on irregular migration, also disclosed the organisation’s plan to intensify tracking of movements across borders.
