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.
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.”
I heard that in spite of the slave trade, some headstrong Nigerians are still using corner-corner to enter Libya.
Some people are born senseless.
Talk about self destruct!
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