Nigerians who are stranded in the United Arab Emirates are
currently undergoing profiling ahead of their evacuation to Nigeria.
In a viral video, thousands of people were seated in an open
area with their bags and luggage following the mass deportation of aliens being
carried out by the UAE authorities.
The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike
Dabiri-Erewa, who briefed journalists in Abuja on Friday, said the profiling
being carried out by the Nigerian Consulate in Dubai was necessary to properly
get detailed information about the Nigerians over there before evacuating them.
She said, “Immediately, the attention of the Nigerian
Consulate in Dubai was drawn to the issue, Nigerians there are being profiled.
Some of them have passports and some do not. There are some children that do
not have any form of identification. Some do not even remember the names with
which they entered the country originally. So they need to be profiled. It is
also important to ensure that some have not committed a crime and they are just
running.
“So, what the consulate is doing now is profiling everybody
at the holding centre. Initially, at the airport, there was a fake WhatsApp
message sent to everybody that there were flights that led to the rush to the
airport. There were quite a lot of Africans.”
The NiDCOM chairman also explained that “It is after the
profiling that the consulate will make a decision on the next step to take. The
consulate and the embassy will brief the Federal Government on the next step to
take.”
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