President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday said there
is nothing he can do for anyone who dares the desert and Mediterranean without
documents to prove that they are Nigerians.
He disclosed that the Federal Government was hoping
to evacuate identified stranded Nigerians in Libya and other countries in order
to bring them back to Nigeria and rehabilitate them.
The president said this while interacting with the
Nigerian community in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, on Tuesday night.
Buhari is in Abidjan, for the 5th European
Union-African Union (EU-AU) Summit.
He promised that his government would do everything
possible to make the country conducive to discourage youths from embarking on
such journey and risking their lives.
He assured that by fixing the security as well as
providing other critical infrastructures in Nigeria, it would also reduce the
chances of people taking the risk and ending up in the Mediterranean Sea.
According to Buhari, “Whenever Nigerians are
identified especially in Libya and so on, we hope to evacuate them back home
and then rehabilitate them because the indoctrination is what is happening with
the Boko Haram where girls will strap themselves mostly from the ages of 15
downwards and go to the market blow themselves up and anybody around in motor
parks, mosques, churches and so on.
“I am telling you all these because I know that
those of you who are making it here I’m sure send contributions home for
feeding and for school fees and for healthcare.
“These are the basic things that the government
should do and we are to make sure that the people who are challenging the
Sahara desert and the Mediterranean they will be less of Nigerians going that
way and getting perished.
“When it was announced that 26 Nigerians died but
before they could proved that they were all Nigerians, they were buried. But
the evidence I got from the Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Affairs now is
that only three were identified as Nigerians.
“But I won’t be surprised if the majority of them
were really Nigerians. And for people to cross the Sahara desert to go into
shanty boats across the Mediterranean Sea, I think we will try and keep them at
home.
“But for anyone who dared the desert and the
Mediterranean without document to prove that he/she is a Nigerian, there is
nothing we can do, absolutely nothing. “In the interview some of you saw, some
of the Nigerians said they were being sold like goats for few dollars for years
in Libya. Now after 43 years of Gaddafi where he recruited so many people from
the Sahel including Nigeria and so on, all they learnt was how to shoot and
kill.
“They didn’t learn to become electricians, plumbers
or any other trade. So, when the Libyans stood against their leader those who
are not their people, they chased them out. A lot of them came back home with
their workers, some of them participated in Boko Haram and become part of Boko
Haram.
“So, I’m telling you that our major problem as we
have identified is still the security of the country. We have done much better
everybody is saying it. And then we are talking very regularly with the Niger
Delta and the leadership because they know they are holding the throat of the
country economically.”
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