Over 800 Nigerians are
currently serving various jail terms in Togo prisons, Chairman, House of
Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Nnena Ukeje has revealed.
According to Ukeje: “This is the problem. As at two weeks ago, we got report of about 800 Nigerians in prisons in Togo, much more in China .
According to Ukeje: “This is the problem. As at two weeks ago, we got report of about 800 Nigerians in prisons in Togo, much more in China .
“The only one country
that we have a clear-cut inventory is the United Kingdom , where we have a bill
that will go to aid with prisoner-exchange.
“Of course, the
National Assembly in the last session, discussed on how Nigerians in prisons in
other countries can come back to Nigeria. Now, in the UK, we have a total
figure of Nigerians who are in UK prisons.
“I know in Togo, it is
about 800; in China, I read in the papers of the number being high. Those are
the things that we are actually trying to look at and look at the status of
these Nigerians who are currently resident in collection of institution around
the world.”
Speaking further, she
noted that: “We are looking at a situation where our citizens are in front,
right and centre in our foreign policy which is why in every embassy around the
world, there is a Diaspora desk and we are looking at strengthening that desk
so that it can engage fully with our citizens abroad.
“Furthermore in the
outcome of the fallout of the Nigeria-Libya crisis, we found out that one of
the problems we had as a country, was that we didn’t have a total inventory of
the number of Nigerians that reside outside of this country.
“Now basically, what
we are ensuring is that these missions have a total inventory of Nigeria so
that we can track ourselves should need be arise on evacuation, etc of our
citizens,” she added
Source: Daily Post Nigeria
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