Some Nigerians in war-torn Ukraine have turned down the government’s offer to evacuate them, claiming that returning home would be more perilous.
Nearly a thousand Nigerians who fled Ukraine to Poland or other neighboring countries had been evacuated as of Saturday morning.
However, not every Nigerian who has been displaced by the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine aspires to return to their homeland in West Africa.
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Some Nigerians interviewed by Channels TV claimed they would rather look for alternatives in Europe than return home.
“I will seek a student visa and continue my life from here,” Lukman Ibrahim, a student who fled Ukraine for Poland, said. Everyone understands that home is not a safe environment.
“You now expect me to come home and face the same thing when I just survived a war? I will never do that.”
Also speaking, one Emeka Nnamdi, who is still in Sumy, Ukraine, said “I am currently doing my Masters here.
“I finished my six years of medical school here. And I am doing a speciality course, which will take me three years.
“But if I’m doing a speciality course in Nigeria, it will take me more than five years, if not seven years. So why should I come home?”
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“As the war has broken out, we are supposed to run to our country for safety. But I’ll rather stay here,” Ibrahim added
“We are all here risking our lives, but going back to our country is riskier.”
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