The Nigerians seen being maltreated in photos and videos at the Gnassingbe Eyadema International Airport, Lome Togo on Saturday have been successfully evacuated to the country.

A report on CKN News yesterday said both the Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, and the Ambassador to Togo, Debo Adesina, had immediately moved in on Saturday after getting wind of the incident where some of the Nigerian passengers were shown being assaulted by the airport security operatives.

It was gathered that the Nigerian passengers aboard the Ethiopian Airline from New York got to Lome only to be informed that their connecting flight to Nigeria through ASky Airline was full.

This infuriated the Nigerian passengers, leading to a protest within the airport, and for which some of the Nigerians were “shackled and manhandled”.

In the viral video, some people were seen with their hands tied to their backs while uniformed men believed to be Togolese airport security men were seen assaulting a lady who was on the floor.

A man could be heard screaming “This is bad, this is bad.”

It was gathered that Adesina, who was said to have briefed the minister, personally went to the airport on hearing the news of the development.

It was also learnt that he, alongside the boss of the country’s civil aviation company, one Colonel Dokisime Gnama Latta, immediately worked out an arrangement for two flights to evacuate all of the passengers Saturday night.

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ASky Airline, which is said to be a strategic partner of the Ethiopian Airlines, has been facing challenges in the last three weeks due to traffic volume.

It was gathered that the same airline had almost aborted a trip by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, last week when he was on his way to Kenya from The Gambia where he went for election monitoring.