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What Sudan Returnees Might Get From FG – Dabiri-Erewa Reveals

by Victor Ndubuisi
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Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), asserted on Thursday that the Federal Government might provide each returnee from Sudan with at least $100 upon their arrival in Nigeria.

Before they joined their families, the money would be given to them to help them settle down, according to Dabiri-Erewa.

Speaking in Abuja during the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the presidential communications team, she said, “NEMA will decide what would be given to the returnees because the funding is with the ministry of humanitarian affairs and disaster management. Usually, it is just a little amount.

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“The last one we gave them, we evacuated people, we gave them $100. So, it depends on the budget they have. But we in NIDCOM give them recharge cards, SIM cards and sometimes phones. Usually, they get $100 just to hold, and these are students coming back to their families. They are not refugees. They have homes.”

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She added that thirteen buses had left Sudan for Aswan, Egypt, on the Egyptian border, from whence the returns will be flown to Nigeria.

Over 5,500 Nigerian students studying in Sudan, according to Dabiri-Erewa, will be among the first Nigerians to be evacuated.

She said, “We have some buses that have departed from the African International University in Khartoum, Sudan, and as I speak, I think they are just about two hours away from Aswan in Cairo.

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“Others departed from the Elrazi University also in Khartoum. All in all, 13 buses have departed for the Aswan border in Egypt, where they will be received by the Nigerian Ambassador there and the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Habib Ahmed, who is already there with some officials.”

The NIDCOM chairwoman noted that given the large number of Nigerians living in African nations, particularly Sudan, it is time for the Federal Government to pay closer attention to them.

She said, “When we were talking about diaspora voting, some people were saying when we do that, it may not augur well. But we said no, we need to go to places like Sudan where we have millions of Nigerians who migrated there years ago, and they have relationships and businesses there.

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“But I want to tell you categorically that by the time we finish the research we are doing, perhaps Sudan would be one of the largest areas where we have the largest concentration of Nigerians in the diaspora.

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“Every time we focus on Europe, America and all that, it is time to focus on Africa and Africans in the diaspora.”

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