Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairperson of Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) as confirmed that the number of Nigerians that have indicated interest to leave South Africa has increased from 400 to 640.
She revealed that two aircrafts will convey the Nigerians willing to come back home, and also added that the Nigerian government is still demanding for compensation for victims of the xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
She said “As I speak with you now, we have 640 Nigerians voluntarily registered to come home and they will be home in a couple of days and we believe that more will still be coming to register. Two planes will convey them. the envoy will be briefing the president. When we receive the first two batches, we will know how many more will come. With the envoy’s briefing to the president, we will be having everything in place. They went on their own and have volunteered to come back. They belong to states as well but on the part of the federal government, we have the GEEP programme that we encourage them to enrol in, small scale entrepreneurial programme with the Bank of Industry, Special Intervention Programme also. In the meantime, we continue to demand compensation for Nigerians that have been attacked in South Africa.”