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About 12,000 Nigerians expelled from Cameroon, after fleeing terrorist, have begun returning home, authorities in Abuja said on Wednesday.

Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said it had received 1,121 of the returnees at the Sahuda border post in northeastern Adamawa state.

A senior official in Abuja with knowledge of the repatriations said the refugees had been expelled from Cameroon.

“They are not coming on their own, they were pushed out of Cameroon,” he said, on condition of anonymity, adding that the number of expulsions was expected to rise to 17,000.”

The deportations came just a day after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visited Cameroon for talks on how to combat the escalating regional threat from Boko Haram.

OFFICIALS OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (NEMA) HELPING AN OLD WOMAN AT THE NEMA TRANSIT CAMP AT ADAMAWA RED BRICK FACTORY IN MUBI ON SUNDAY.

OFFICIALS OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (NEMA) REGISTERING NIGERIAN RETURNEES FROM CAMEROUN AT THE NYSC CAMP, DAWARE IN YOLA ON SUNDAY NIGHT.

RED CROSS OFFICIALS HELPING AN OLD WOMAN AT THE NEMA TRANSIT CAMP IN ADAMAWA RED BRICK FACTORY IN MUBI ON SUNDAY.

NIGERIAN RETURNEES FROM CAMEROUN WITH MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED TO THEM BY THE OFFICIALS OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, AT THE NYSC CAMP, DAWARE IN YOLA ON SUNDAY NIGHT.

NIGERIAN RETURNEES FROM CAMEROUN RECEIVING THEIR MEAL AT THE NEMA TRANSIT CAMP IN ADAMAWA RED BRICK FACTORY IN MUBI ON SUNDAY.

How did we get here? Our citizens are now strangers in their fathers land?