Senate Moves To Check Maltreatment Of Nigerians Abroad
The Senate is set to examine and make recommendations against the reccurring maltreatment of Nigerian immigrants, on resumption of its plenary session next week.
This is considered timely in the light of reports of inhuman treatment of Nigerians in various countries, most recently in Libya.
THISDAY gathered that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Madueke, would be invited to intimate the Senate on specific actions being taken by the ministry to protect Nigerians in other countries.
Comptroller General of Immigration, Joseph Udeh, would also be invited to explain what he was doing to stem the tide of illegal immigration from the country.
Sponsored by Senator Wilson Ake, the motion has already been listed on the notice paper lamenting the tales of Nigerians being maltreated abroad.
Ake said there were also reported cases of extra-judicial killing of Nigerians in some of the countries, while in others Nigerians were subjected to dehumanizing conditions before being deported back to the country.
He lamented that Nigerians were sometimes thrown overboard at sea on their way to Europe, apart from those who die in transit on their way through the desert to Libya or via boat mishap, on the Mediterranean Sea.
Ake who heads the Senate Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity, urged the executive to do more to revive the nation’sailing industries.
This, he said, would go a long way to reduce unemployment and put Nigeria on the right track socially and economically and reduce the mad craze to relocate abroad.
source: thisdayonline.com
