Sixty-eight Nigerian women trafficked to Lebanon and seen in a video that had gone viral where they were crying for help had been rescued and arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM announced this via it’s official Twitter handle.
The girls are the second batch of more than 150 Nigerian women who were trafficked to Lebanon in search of greener pastures.
94 victims that constituted the first batch were also received at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on August 12 by the Chairman of NIDCOM,Abike Dabiri Erewa.
This second batch ,68 according to the Nigeria Mission in Beirut arrived on a free flight which was facilitated by the Embassy of Nigeria in Beirut, Lebanon in collaboration with the Lebanese Embassy and the Lebanese Community.
The Evacuees would be going from the airport to the hotel where the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) would profile their records and would be Quarantine in line with the NCDC COVID19 protocols.
Mr Akinloye Akinsola, the representative of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), said that some Nigerians employed as domestic workers in Lebanon had complained of maltreatment from their Lebanese employers.
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He said that sequel to the complaints; the Lebanese Ambassador to Nigeria had suspended the issuance of working visas to Nigerians seeking to do domestic work in Lebanon.
He said the suspension had become imperative so as to stem the tide of the maltreatment.
Akinsola said that the commission had started the procedure for proper harmonization in line with best practices relating to orderly migration.
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68 ladies arrived yesterday from Lebanon (According to Nigeria Mission in Beirut) on a FREE FLIGHT which was facilitated by the Embassy of Nigeria in Beirut, Lebanon in collaboration with the Lebanese Embassy and the Lebanese Community. #Thread pic.twitter.com/JliCVty3IZ— CBN Gov Akinsola Akin🇳🇬 (@cbngov_akin1) August 17, 2020
