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200 Nigerians willing to return from US, others – Geoffrey Onyeama
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has revealed that almost 200 Nigerians, especially in the United States, had indicated willingness to return.
The minister in a press briefing on Wednesday said,
“The engagement of Nigerians should be with the embassies and high commissions and not with any other parallel agency, department of government or anything like that.
“It is with them that we are collating all the names and making all the arrangements.”
He explained that the Presidential Task Force [PTF] on COVID-19 had been deliberating on the issue of the evacuation of Nigerians abroad since airports were shut.
He said,
“The response is not as a result of letters that have been coming in from Nigerians in the Diaspora but something that was taken up by the task force from the beginning.
“But at that time, we did not have all our isolation centres and all the other arrangements in place. For that reason, we kept it in abeyance while we were putting all those things in place.
“Now that we have sufficient beds and so forth and the protocol is now well established, we now feel in a much stronger and better position to undertake this Herculean task of trying to see how we can bring Nigerians outside the country back in.”
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