Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari meets with German Chancellor Merkel in Abuja (photo credit: State House)
President Muhammadu Buhari has told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Nigeria does not encourage illegal migration.
The Nigerian leader made this known on Friday during a presser at the presidential villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
“I’m against those my countrymen and women that illegally find their way to other countries,” Buhari said.
“We do not, as an administration, agree for Nigerians to defy the desert and the Mediterranean because they feel that there are greener pastures over there. We do not support anything illegal and indiscipline.
“We do not support anything illegal and anybody who feels that his country does not value him or offer him what he should be offered as a citizen and decide to defy the desert and the Mediterranean is doing it at his own risk.”
The two leaders also talked about economic cooperation between Nigeria and Germany.