FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REPATRIATES 150 NIGERIANS STRANDED IN NIGER REPUBLIC
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By Adeniyi Onaara
The Federal Government has repatriated 150 Nigerians who were trapped in Niamey, Niger Republic.
Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, revealed this while receiving returnees at the Aminu Kano International Airport on Monday evening.
The exercise was carried out in partnership with the International Organization for Migration and the Economic Community of West African States, according to her.
According to her, the returnees were brought back to Kano from Niger Republic by the IOM and ECOWAS.
The minister, who was represented by the Ministry’s Director of Humanitarian Services, Alhaji Grema Ali, said that the program was intended for troubled Nigerians who had left the country to seek greener pastures in various European countries, and could not afford to return when their journey became frustrated.
One of those repatriated, Amina Aliyu from Kano State, recounted her story, saying she moved to Niger with her three children and sister Zara’u Aliyu in search of greener pastures.
“We wanted to proceed to Algeria, but the driver dropped us up in Niger Republic,” she explained.
We struggled greatly without food and drink. My husband abandoned me and my children for the past three years, and my parents are elderly and impoverished, so I had no choice but to travel in search of greener pastures.”
Aminu Suleiman, a Yobe State returnee, claimed he went to Libya in search of greener pastures.
“Before I left Yobe, I worked as a tailor I wanted to travel to Europe from Libya to seek greener pastures because I wanted to open a fashion academy in Nigeria,” he said.
The returnees were received by the National Emergency Management Agency, the State Emergency Management Agency, in collaboration with other sister security agencies.”
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