Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, says he regrets the disdain with which Nigerians are treated outside the shores of the country. The minister spoke on Thursday in Abuja at
PRESIDENT BUHARI PARTICIPATES ON VIRTUAL MEETING WITH ECOWAS HEADS OF STATES ON MALI CRISIS 2A-D9. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffery Onyeama during a Virtual Meeting of Extraordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States and Government on the Socio-Political Situation in Mali held at the Council Chambers, State House Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. AUGUST 20, 2020.
The minister agreed with the position of the journalist and attributed the challenge to the desperation of many Nigerians who took illegal measures to travel out of the country.“If there is one thing that I look back to with the greatest regrets in my seven and half years in the ministry of foreign affairs, it is the situation of Nigerians in foreign countries,” he said.
“So, we went to the yard and it was one of the most touching things I ever experienced. We have all these young boys –13, 14, 15 years old and they all came out, over a hundred of them and they all stood up to attention. “The president gave directives, that we should charter planes in order to get them out and we did. Those of us in government have to blame ourselves, particularly in the immigration and even in foreign affairs.”Onyema narrated another incident where the US ambassador to Nigeria showed him the list of Nigerians that were issued visas through Note Verbal to travel but absconded and never attended the events they were scheduled for.
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