The Civil Liberties Organisation has raised the alarm that 300 Nigerian businessmen and women who are stranded in the Chinese business capital, Guangzhou, are facing starvation.
The human rights group disclosed that the citizens complained that they had no more money to pay for their hotel accommodations and feeding and may be thrown out of their rooms and denied food.
The stranded Nigerians are part of the over 2,000 individuals awaiting evacuation from foreign countries, but the Federal Government said it was working to set up isolation centres where they would be quarantined on arrival.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama had also said that Abuja and Lagos hotels declined to accept the returning Nigerians, saying keeping the individuals under quarantine in their premises may damage their brand.
But the CLO Executive Director, Ibuchukwu Ezike, in a statement on Tuesday, said his office had been inundated with calls from Nigerians in Guangzhou pleading for immediate repatriation.
It stated:
“The Nigerians said they are appealing to the President (Major General) Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to have compassion on them, their families and loved ones back home who they have missed for over a month now. They told the CLO that they have no money for their hotel accommodation and feeding.”
