THE Senate has disclosed that 776 Nigerians are presently serving
various jail terms in seven countries, including Cameroon, Gabon and
Niger Republic.
The upper legislative body, at its plenary
session on Tuesday, gave the figure to include Spain (395); Gabon (126);
Thailand (91); United States (62); Malaysia (43); Niger (30) and
Cameroon (29).
It, however, urged the Federal Government to seek
for redress and restitution for the 14 Nigerians found not culpable out
of the 27 deported from Spain recently.
The resolution followed a
motion by the chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator
Matthew Nwagwu, as, according to him, the motion became imperative,
given the fact that many Nigerians suffered one form of unjust treatment
or the other in their host countries.
Senator Nwagwu noted with
concern the unfair treatment and harassment of Nigerians in foreign
countries, leading to their intimidation, arrest, detention, torture,
deportation and occasional deaths.
“It is not in all cases that
our citizens are guilty of the offences they are alleged to have
committed,” he said, adding that investigations by combined team of
officers from the police, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA),
the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigerian Immigration Service
(NIS) showed that 14 out of the recently deported 27 Nigerians from
Spain were not guilty of the offences for which they were deported by
the Spanish authorities.
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