The Chairman House Committee on Diaspora, Hon Abike Dabiri Erewa, has said that about 409 Nigerians are currently serving different jail term in South African prison

Dabiri Erewa disclosed that the situation was observed after the committee’s visit to two prisons in south africa where Nigerians are being held for various offences. She was accompanied on the visit by Hon Ajibola Famurewa and Hon Umaru Shidanfi both members of the committee, consular officers of the Nigerian Embassy, and executives of the Nigerian Union in south africa.

She explained that the committee held interaction with some inmates and were told that some of them have completed their prison terms, yet were still being kept in Jail.
She said the inmates complained of extreme discrimination by the prison authorities in South Africa saying that as Nigerians, they get very bad deal.

The chairman said the inmates alleged that the authorities tore into pieces their Nigerian passports among several other allegations and refused to grant them bail, while others from other countries that committed similar bailable offence were granted bail.
Dabiri Erewa however advised the inmates to stay away from crime as obviously it does not augur well, no matter what.
While on a visit to the Nigerian High commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador Sonni Samuel Yusuf, the committee commended the embassy for their various interventions and intimated them of the various allegations not only by Nigerians in prison but Nigerians generally in South Africa of discrimination in several areas.

The Nigerian Ambassador assured the committee, that the embassy will continue to make the welfare of Nigerians in South Africa their priorities.
According to him, “nobody has the right to seize anyone’s passport not to talk of tearing them into pieces”. He said issues like that are not peculiar to Nigerians alone but blacks generally in South Africa and African ambassadors in South Africa are deliberating on this issue.
He said the embassy will not relent in its efforts to protect the right and dignity of Nigerians.
He also commended the large numbers of Nigerians excelling in South Africa in their various areas of endeavours, adding that the Embassy would continue to ensure that “one bad apple does not spoil the whole bunch”.

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