The Team Leader, Sadiq Ibrahim, told newsmen in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, that the team was on a fact finding mission jointly conducted in collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency
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The group said in its new report that the deportation defied a plea by United Nations Refugee Agency to not return anyone to north-eastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram killed thousands of people, until security and human rights situation improved considerably.
Carlotta Sami, the UNHCR spokesperson in Rome, reported the incident on Twitter on Thursday, but told dpa she did not have any additional information.
The UN Refugee Agency gave the caution in a statement on Thursday following the return of 887 Nigerian refugees on Tuesday.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugee said that some 13,000 Nigerian refugees crossed from Adamawa State after insurgents attacked and captured the town of Mubi in late October