Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria
on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, has described the reported mass arrest
and deportation of Nigerians from Ghana as worrisome.
Dabiri-Erewa made this known in a statement by her media aide, Abdul-Rahman Balogun, on Thursday in Abuja.
She said that the information on the renewed harassment, arrest and
deportation of hundreds of Nigerians from Ghana was disturbing.
She, however, assured that the Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana,
Amb. Olufemi Abikoye was on top of the situation and was engaging with
relevant authorities in Ghana.
“While any Nigerian who commits a crime will have to face the wrath of
the law, the situation of any Nigerian being inhumanly and unjustly
treated, will not be acceptable,” she said.
Dabiri-Erewa recalled the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari in
2018 when shops owned by Nigerian traders were locked in Ghana, which
forced some of them to relocate back home.
She said that the issue was amicably resolved between the two presidents in the spirit of brotherhood.
Dabiri-Erewa, therefore, appealed to Nigerians living in Ghana to be
good ambassadors of the country by abiding by the rules and regulations
in that country.
She also appealed to the Ghanaian authorities to be brotherly in their
approach in dealing with Nigerians living in Ghana by reciprocating
Nigeria’s kind gestures to Ghanaians in Nigeria.
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