The unlawful immigrants on their arrival on the Calabar Bay (photograph: CrossRiverWatch
Thirty thousand unlawful Nigerian migrants shall be repatriated to the nation, in response to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama.
Onyema stated this on Wednesday when he obtained the Security Adviser to the President of Germany Jan Hecker, and his group in Abuja.
According to the minister, the brand new proposal relies on perceived failure and gradual tempo of the present system of repatriation.
“They don’t have enough faith and confidence in the process that we have at the moment for the repatriation process,” the minister added.
”Some of the delays they believed are with the mission and consulate in Germany. They wish to suggest a fully new strategy of repatriation, generally known as Return and Re-admission.”
”Germans weren't completely satisfied that the system we have now in place in the meanwhile is definitely not working to their satisfaction.”
According to him, the brand new course of basically entails that when all authorized processes have been exhausted, Nigeria ought to belief them (Germany), to make proper choice on whom needs to be repatriated.
He stated, “They will deliver them right here to Nigeria and say we have now gone by way of a course of in Germany; these individuals are your nationals, they've exhausted all of the authorized processes, please take them.
”And will probably be right here on Nigeria territory that any chance will then exist to say possibly that one isn't or this one isn't.”