Egyptian authorities have restricted the number of stramded Nigerians to cross into their border to the capacity of plane evacuation plane from the country, NewsSpecng learnt.
No fewer than 2000 Nigerians running away from the battle between the country’s military and the Paramilitary forces have been stranded at the Aswan border for the past five days.
The Nigerian government was however, on Mondy able to secure passage for them to cross the Egyptian, though, gesture came with stringent conditions.
However, it is not all of them that would go through the Egyptian border.
According to latest information only two planes that are on ground in Egypt- the Airforce C130 and one Airpeace .
At the time of filing this report, the Nigerian authorities have finished paying the $25 dollars visa fee and the $9 dollars for each of the evacuees.
“Once done , they take them to the Egypt border
The condition given is that we can only come with the no the plane can take,” a government official said.
It was however not known if more planes would be send in or alternative arrangements would be made to evacuate them as soon as possible.
