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Adelani Adepegba, Abuja
The Federal Government has expressed dismay over the hasty burial of the 26 girls who were found dead on the Mediterranean Sea by Italian authorities nine days ahead of the slated date.
The bodies of the girls were found on a sinking vessel in the Mediterranean about two weeks ago and there where reports that they may have been sexually abused before they were murdered.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa told journalists in Abuja on Monday that the Italian Embassy had earlier indicated to the Director-General, National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons that the burial would take place in Salerno, Italy on November 26, 2017.
But the Italian authorities, she said, went ahead with the burial last Friday without informing the Nigerian government, adding that the NAPTIP director is currently in Italy to engage with the Italian authorities ahead of the scheduled burial date.
The SSA who addressed newsmen alongside a NAPTIP representative, Mr. Abdulrahim Shaibu, explained that a protest letter had been sent to the Italian envoy in Nigeria over the matter.
“Why were they (the bodies) hurriedly buried nine days before the date communicated to the DG, NAPTIP by the Italian Embassy without any information to Nigerian Government? Why the rush to bury the bodies without carrying out post-mortem to determine the causes of death?,” she queried.
Dabiri-Erewa said that information indicated that only three of the girls were identified as Nigerians, noting that the identities of the other victims had yet to be ascertained before they were interred.
She noted that another issue of concern was that the victims’ families may have wanted them buried in their countries of origin.
The SSA also condemned the reported sale of Africans in a Libyan slave market as broadcast by CNN, saying this was unacceptable, despicable and inhuman.
She said,”On the issue of Africans sold by Africans in Libya to Europe, as reported by the CNN in a report titled “People for sale; where lives are auctioned for $400”, this is totally unacceptable, despicable, and inhuman and should be condemned by anyone who is human and has blood running through their veins.”
The Presidential aide appealed to the African Union, European Union, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, International Organization on Migration and the Economic Community for West African States to intervene in the matter and tackle the issue of slavery happening in Libya.
“The perpetrators of this heinous crime should also be sanctioned,” she said.

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is it not too early? we should have waited 10 more years.

APC's hardship sef

I thought they helped us to cover our shame.
Since Our government has no regards for her citizens

Most responsible governments would have sent a plane immediately to bring them back home.
All this protest nonsense is just to save face. At least the dead got a more dignified burial than they would have probably got in Nigeria where mass burial is common place.
Fix Nigeria, that is the only explanation that would make sense to me personally.

She have do me abeg

The Nigerian govt is very silly for this , they destroy the economy which in turn made those girls to risk their lives seeking greener pasture and the govt didnt even bother sending a rep when they drowned but now wants to question Italy who gave them a decent buria

Lie lie government of mumu mmadu Buhari will always show their incompetence in everything. Stephen Keshi's family still awaits befitting burial from FG after over one year of his burial.

http://www.google.com.ng/url?q=https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/keshi-goes-home-fg-pulls-burial-plans/&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiunPO7gc7XAhVM6xoKHRL0AaUQFggOMAE&usg=AOvVaw2cu0Ehsf-aEFYruZK_Ehyd

Mediterranean Tragedy: Nigeria demands explanation from Italy over burial of 26 girls


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui0IQXJj5HI


ORIGINAL LINK:https://oak.tv/mediterranean-tragedy-nigeria-demands/

Nigeria government is doing the right thing here, showing concern by sending officials and ( to some extent) tolerating Nigeria's name being further solid by other unsavoury African nations not standing up for their citizens. It is partly this callous disregard by African nations of their nationals that causes European nations like Italy to discard these unfortunate and tragic migrants as they saw fit such as burying the 26 girls without due process like animals. Who are these girls, where are they from, who are they related to? what about their fathers,mothers, brothers and extended relatives - families, probably waiting at home, crossed fingers, in towns and villages, all their hopes of alleviating poverty, resting on the young people that left for Europe? These young people die and relative know nothing, they just wait and wait and wait,their hopeful joys slowly giving way to dark fears as claustrophobic and stultifying as those depressing closing-in African dusks.

Good one Nigeria, ask for the exhumation of those bodies, those young people deserve at least the restoration of their identities since the world gave them nothing else.