COVID-19: Saudi Arabia To Repatriate Over 11,000 Stranded Nigerians

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COVID-19: Saudi Arabia To Repatriate Over 11,000 Stranded Nigerians


A Nigerian Embassy official who wanted his name withheld due to authorization purposes but well informed about the developments of this issue Saudi Arabian government issued a letter to their embassy a few weeks ago which contained their plans of airlifting the stranded Nigerians to back home.

The source further revealed that Nigerians who had traveled to the country for ‘Umrah’ a smaller Hajj were held up by the movement restrictions enforced by the Saudi authorities as part of measures to contain the spread of COVID-19.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama confirmed the development in a press briefing where he told Premium Times that some stranded Nigerians in Saudi Arabia would have returned home a week ago but due to logistics challenge, there was a delay in the repatriation.

He said; “We are aware of this… In fact, they wanted to land last week, but they couldn’t because there was no arrangement to receive them.

“As you heard, we have a capacity we can absorb. The medical people have to monitor them for two weeks for quarantine. But there is only a certain number of port health authority staff who are able to monitor all these people as they come in.

“As the SGF said, we have to finish the ones we have, then allow some more to come in. We can’t allow everybody to come in because we don’t have the capacity to house them and also to monitor them medically.”

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