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The House of Representatives yesterday decried ill-treatment and discrimination meted against Nigerians living in South Africa, noting that no fewer than 409 Nigerians “are currently serving jail terms in the country.”
Chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed this in a statement she issued after the committee’s visit to two prisons in South Africa, thereby describing the increasing numbers of Nigerians in foreign prisons as “ridiculously embarrassing.”
Dabiri-Erewa, who visited the prisons alongside two members of the committee, Hon. Ajibola Famurewa and Hon. Umaru Shidanfi, consular officers of the Nigerian High Commission and executives of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, said over 400,000 Nigerians “are resident in the country.”
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Source: Thisday Newspaper
Chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed this in a statement she issued after the committee’s visit to two prisons in South Africa, thereby describing the increasing numbers of Nigerians in foreign prisons as “ridiculously embarrassing.”
Dabiri-Erewa, who visited the prisons alongside two members of the committee, Hon. Ajibola Famurewa and Hon. Umaru Shidanfi, consular officers of the Nigerian High Commission and executives of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, said over 400,000 Nigerians “are resident in the country.”
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Source: Thisday Newspaper
