Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa (R) with Director, Global Programme on Migration for Development, Centre for International Migration and Development, Dr Ralf Sanftenberg, throughout an assembly in Abuja on Tuesday (7/2/17), over Assisted Voluntary Returnee of Nigerian Irregular Migrants in Germany.
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The German authorities is about to deport near 30,000 Nigerians looking for asylum in Germany, the Nigerian authorities has revealed.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Diaspora and Foreign Affairs, Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa disclosed this at a programme; “Developing a mixed migration strategy for UNHCR Nigeria” in Abuja on Tuesday.
“Germany said it has about 25,000 to 30,000 Nigerians seeking asylum and they can’t guarantee they will get it. So, there is every possibilities that they will be returned to Nigeria,” she mentioned.
As said by her, the explanations for asylum by the Nigerians weren't real as “some who are from the East and West are saying they are running away from Boko Haram while some others say they are gays and were having challenges expressing themselves in Nigeria.”
The SSA to the President mentioned a date has not but been set for the deportation of the asylum looking for Nigerians.
“Germany has set up a team working with the ministry of foreign affairs to see how the whole process [of deportation] can be made easier,” she added.
While noting that Germany is providing extra scholarships and simpler course of of normal migration for Nigerians, she appealed to younger Nigerians to be careful for these alternatives and benefit from them.
“We are looking at the option of reverse migration also where you can actually stay in your country and enjoy everything you are migrating abroad to get,” Hon. Dabiri Erewa added.
She famous that irregular migration was now not working because the overseas nations have been additionally having their very own challenges now.
She mentioned the federal government was already doing a lot to sort out the problems which can be encouraging irregular migration, including that “we are fighting corruption, insecurity and trying to revive the economy.”