the ministry of overseas affairs has continuously briefed the public at the efforts of the ministry as well as that of the embassy of nigeria in libya in addressing the plight of nigerian migrants in that u . s .. in addition to this, the ministry desires to remind the public that the emergency cellphone numbers to touch our embassy in libya for help are: +218910144487, +218925099384 and +218917953365.the contact email addresses for the embassy and the ministry are: nigeria@nigeriantripoli.org and help@foreignaffairs.gov.ng. certainly, thru those contacts, the embassy has been receiving requests for intervention from a few members of the family of the sufferers who are based totally in nigeria. the ministry additionally indicated that the honorable minister of overseas affairs, his excellency, geoffrey onyeama has invited the fee d’affaires, en titre (head of undertaking)inside the embassy, mr. iliya danladi fachano, to abuja for consultations.
he is in abuja already and at some point of the length of the consultations, arrangements had been made for him toaddress press meetings on the difficulty. this would manage to pay for the nigerian public the opportunity to listen from him immediately.the ministry similarly desires to inform thepublic that the embassy has been
visiting detention camps to identify nigerians for registration and difficulty emergency travel certificates (etc) to them.
as of nowadays, the embassy has a report of 2,778 registered nigerians in on hand detention camps and they're ready for repatriation
the embassy, in collaboration with the global company for migration (iom), repatriates 250 nigerian migrants with the aid of flight to lagos
weekly – each flight can accommodate best 250 passengers; to this point, the embassy, in collaboration with the iom has repatriated
approximately 3,000 nigerians; from the two,778 registered nigerians who are nonetheless in detention camps, by way of
day after today, tuesday 5th of december, 2017, some other set of 250 nigerian migrants will bearriving at murtala mohammed airport, lagos at
7.00.p.m. to be obtained by nema officials;
the repatriation is a continuous exercising and the embassy robotically issues the requisite tour documents to the migrants;
the embassy will keep to interact the legitimate governmentin libya and other stakeholders in addressing the plight of nigerian
migrants in that us of a.
the ministry might liketo seize this possibility to advocate proceeding nigerian
tourists to keep away from libya at this era, due to the fact ofthe dangers they will encounterin
the technique of their adventure. on the document of the slave market in libya, the african union chairman has
condemned such act if discovered to be authentic. the federal government has similarly condemned it through a press launch issued via the ministry of overseas affairs on 26th november, 2017 whilst noting the demanding situations that the libyan authorities is
dealing with in the renovation of law and order.
in the meantime, the ministry of overseas affairs deliberate to have interaction the united nations, african union, ecu union and different stakeholders to make certain that the perpetrators of the slaveryare brought to justice and that thephenomenon is brought to an give up, as it violates the fundamental human rights of the sufferers and it's miles unacceptable to the civilized world.
tiwatope adeleye elias-fatile, phd., fnipr
spokesperson
ministry of foreign affairs, abuja
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