The Federal Government has called on the 16 state governors whose citizens were among the first batch of 168 Nigerians that were evacuated from South Africa as a result of xenophobic attacks.
Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Diaspora Commission, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, while giving updates on the returnees, also stressed that they were not criminals as alleged by the South Africans but hardworking Nigerians who lost all they had including businesses just for being blacks and being Nigerians.
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Among the returnees are 30 children and a widow who has four children with Ogun State having the highest number of 30 while Kogi and Benue have the least number of one each.
The states of returnees are – Abia – 7, Anambra 13, Benue 1, Delta 15, Ebonyi 2, Edo 13, Ekiti 6 and Enugu 7.
Others are Imo 28, Kogi 1, Kwara 3, Lagos 7, Ogun 30, Osun 6, Ondo 6 and Oyo 24.
According to Dabiri-Erewa , the returnees are already being profiled to get soft loans from the Bank of Industry (BOI).