On enquiry, they disclosed that they were arrested by Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, officials from various parts of Lagos. They further stated that they were kept in different custody for a period of six months to two years before they were brought into Onitcha.
But the people failed to say the truth that they were rehabilitated:
Many of them were beggars, some were discovered to be
hawkers whose goods were reportedly seized by KIA officials as it is
against the law in Lagos. The elderly ones looked pale and sick.
When news of the deportation spread across the state, officials of the Nigerian Red Cross Society led by its South East zonal chairman, Dr. Peter Emeka Katcy, arrived the scene at about 6am,where they began a section of interview with the deportees apparently to ascertain their claims.
By noon, relatives of the some of the deportees surged Onitsha, where a total of 41 of them were taken to their different family houses while the Red Cross team whisked the remaining 18 to Onitsha South Local government township Stadium, where they were given first aid treatment and food.
At the stadium, more relatives of the remaining deportees arrived on daily basis, from outside the state, identified their own and took them home. Some of them who were certified medically fit and could find their ways home, were given transport fare.
One dead, others unconscious
As at Monday, this week, only 5 of them were left in the one-room apartment at the stadium. Their identities were given as: Friday Ndukwe from Ohafia in Abia State; Grace Igbochi who claimed to be a Lagosian, Ugulari Tutua from Warri, Delta State; Chinyere Nocholas from Awomamma, Imo State and Rosemary Nathaniel from Ubakala Umuahia, Abia State.
A member of the NRCS and Education Officer attached to the Onitsha South Local Government Education Authority, Nneoma Judith Nwora, disclosed that one of the deportees died on Friday from due to protracted illness, adding that the five remaining deportees comprised two males and three females.
Some Rev. Sisters from nearby Madonna Mercy Convent had indicated interest to come and pick them for feeding and medical treatment, as their own family members have failed to come for them.
When news of the deportation spread across the state, officials of the Nigerian Red Cross Society led by its South East zonal chairman, Dr. Peter Emeka Katcy, arrived the scene at about 6am,where they began a section of interview with the deportees apparently to ascertain their claims.
By noon, relatives of the some of the deportees surged Onitsha, where a total of 41 of them were taken to their different family houses while the Red Cross team whisked the remaining 18 to Onitsha South Local government township Stadium, where they were given first aid treatment and food.
At the stadium, more relatives of the remaining deportees arrived on daily basis, from outside the state, identified their own and took them home. Some of them who were certified medically fit and could find their ways home, were given transport fare.
One dead, others unconscious
As at Monday, this week, only 5 of them were left in the one-room apartment at the stadium. Their identities were given as: Friday Ndukwe from Ohafia in Abia State; Grace Igbochi who claimed to be a Lagosian, Ugulari Tutua from Warri, Delta State; Chinyere Nocholas from Awomamma, Imo State and Rosemary Nathaniel from Ubakala Umuahia, Abia State.
A member of the NRCS and Education Officer attached to the Onitsha South Local Government Education Authority, Nneoma Judith Nwora, disclosed that one of the deportees died on Friday from due to protracted illness, adding that the five remaining deportees comprised two males and three females.
Some Rev. Sisters from nearby Madonna Mercy Convent had indicated interest to come and pick them for feeding and medical treatment, as their own family members have failed to come for them.
It would have generated more controversy if the deportee who died on
Friday was still in the rehabilitation centre of the Lagos State
government. Some mischief makers would have even claimed that officials
of KIA tortured the person to death.
Please people should learn to care for their people, especially elderly ones.
Stop allowing them move out of their home state to became destitute and
nuisance in major cities like Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt. Some
relatives of these people are enjoying themselves in cities, pretending
like they don't know these poor people in their family.
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