Senate Set To Check Maltreatment Of Nigerians Abroad

Following recurring maltreatment of Nigerian immigrants, the Senate is now set to pass recommendations against such menace at the resumption of its plenary session.
According to the upper chamber, it considered timely in the light of reports of inhuman treatment of Nigerians in various countries, with reference to Libya.
Our correspondent reports that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Madueke, would be invited to intimate the Senate on specific actions and programmes embarked upon by the ministry to protect the lives of Nigerians in other countries. Also to be invited is the Controller General of Immigration, Joseph Udeh, to explain what he was doing to stem the tide of illegal immigration from the country.
However, the motion sponsored by Senator Wilson Ake has already been listed on the notice paper lamenting the tales of Nigerians being maltreated abroad.
Ake further stated that there were also reported cases of extra-judicial killing of Nigerians in some of the countries. While in others Nigerians were subjected to dehumanising conditions before being deported back to the country.
Still speaking in the same vein, Mr. Ake further lamented that Nigerians were sometimes thrown over board at sea on their way to Europe, apart from those who die in transit on their way through the desert to Libya or boat-mishap, on the Mediterranean sea.
Furthermore, Ake urged the executive to do more to revive the nation’s failing industries. As the Head of Senate Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity, he said, this would go a long way to reduce unemployment and put Nigeria on the right track socially and economically and reduce the craze to relocate abroad.

Chinwi Ata