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2018 World Cup: 75 Nigerian football fans abscond in Russia – Ministry

Pic.29. Some of the155 Stranded Nigerian in Russia during their arrival at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja on Friday (20/7/18). 03815/20/7/2018/Anthony Alabi/NAN

2018 World Cup: 75 Nigerian football fans abscond in Russia – Ministry

byAgency Report
July 25, 2018
2 min read

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says 75 out of 230 stranded Nigerian Football fans absconded in Russia after the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The ministry’s Spokesperson, Tope Elias-Fatile, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja that the fans absconded in spite of government’s efforts to repatriate them.

Mr Fatile said 230 stranded Nigerian football fans were profiled to board chartered Ethiopian Airline to Abuja but at the last minute, only 155 boarded the flight.

“As at the last count, over 230 stranded Nigerians had been cleared to board an Ethiopian Airline flight to Abuja, however, only 155 boarded the flight that arrived Friday night July 22,” he said.

He said the ministry officials had to contribute to feed some of the stranded Nigerians in Moscow as many of them were left with nothing.

He said though they had the rights not to come back but it would be better for them to return because of the unfavorable weather in that country.

He said the mission had done a lot to facilitate their coming back but they did not appreciate it.

”Do you know that the officials at mission have to sacrifice their earning by contributing money to feed the stranded fans,” he said.

He said if, however, they repented and decided to come back, the ministry was ever ready to assist them.

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Mr Fatile said that federal government was ever willing to assist Nigerians at anytime, anywhere in the world

The spokesperson said that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, had also made some contacts with relevant agencies to commence investigation into suspected human trafficking in the case.

The stranded football fans including a nursing mother in her mid-thirties arrived Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport Abuja at about 9.12 p.m. on July 20.

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Mr Onyeama, who was at the airport to monitor their arrival, had said that the federal government was going to probe the case.

He said government had resolved to investigate suspected human trafficking in the case of the Nigerian football fans, who got stranded in Russia after the World Cup tournament.

Mr Onyeama said the plan to probe the issue surrounding the incident was underway.

He said after a discussion with the Director-General of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Julie Okah–Donli, it was clear that there were possible cases of human trafficking among the returnees.

“I have spoken to the D-G of NAPTIP and she had also indicated that they had sounded the alarm bells for these young children not to leave the country, that it had all the hallmarks of trafficking and irregular migration,” he said.

The minister insisted that some of them, among who was a nursing mother, were quite too young to have travelled to Russia by themselves solely for the purpose of the World Cup tournament.

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He added that an investigation would also be launched into an allegation that some travel agents cancelled the return tickets of the football fans without informing them, leaving them stranded in the European country.

(NAN)

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