The Federal Government have been working with Nigerian Community on a decision on evacuation from Tunisia where black have been victims of racial attacks.
According to the Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa who gave the update on her Twitter handle on Monday.
Added that those that have agreed to return to Nigeria are very few and the mission is working with International Organization for Migration (IOM) to arrange tickets for them.
Following the intervention of the African Union and the African Group of Ambassadors, she said many others Nigerians still want to wait, praying it will soon pass.
She pointed out that Nigerians don’t have large Community in Tunisia as those of them are rescued victims from the Mediterranean after a failed attempt to cross from Libya. “The mission will update if they do request to return”.
Meanwhile, it was reported that in Tunisia, hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans have reported being forcibly evicted from their homes, subjected to racially motivated violence after President Ben Ali’s recent comments angered migrants.
According to Tunisian President Kais Saied last week, “urgent measures” were needed to tackle irregular migration, and claimed without evidence there was “a criminal plot underway “to change Tunisia’s demographic make-up”.
Due to their skin color, black Tunisians, both citizens and migrants have been attacked, mugged, and abused since then, while there have been dozens of arrests of migrants who are deemed “illegal” by the police.
Saied’s speech was condemned by the African Union as “racialised hate speech”, as Tunisia’s representative summoned for an urgent meeting by the AU to express “deep shock and concern at the form and substance of the statement targeting fellow Africans”.
The report said further that hundreds of people from sub-Saharan Africa are camping outside IOM’s office since last week after being displaced from their homes.
