…as Abike Dabiri reacts
Some Nigerian students fleeing Sudan by road have claimed that bus drivers contracted to convey them out of the country left them stranded half-way over the Federal Government’s alleged failure to pay the drivers.
This was revealed in a video by one of the yet to be identified students which has gone viral on social media
“Before we started this journey, we experienced different things. Can you believe that we have been stuck in this desert for 5 hours. We don’t know the situation we are in.
“We don’t have water. Our money has finished. Can you imagine? The drivers said they are not moving their buses because they have not been paid. We are stuck in the desert.
” We don’t have anything. We don’t even know where we are. We are in an unknown location and in a very big danger.”
But the chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, reacted to the video stating the issues have been settled and the buses have moved.
“As our students in Sudan queued up orderly to board their buses to Egypt enroute to Nigeria, supervised by Nigerian mission officials in Sudan. Let’s remember them in our prayers as they journey home. War is a terrible thing!!,” she tweeted.
“Just spoke to @nemanigeria. They have started moving again. Whatever issues they have ,has been resolved,” she tweeted.
The federal government had released N150 million to hire 40 buses to move Nigerians to Egypt.
