SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, (THEWILL) – The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has raised the alarm that about 300 Nigerian businessmen and women are stranded in the Chinese business capital, Guangzhou, and are facing starvation.
The stranded Nigerians are among the over 2,000 individuals awaiting evacuation from foreign countries and the human rights group said the citizens complained that they no longer had money to pay for their hotel accommodation and feeding.
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, the Federal Government said it was working to set up isolation centres where they would be quarantined on arrival as Abuja and Lagos hotels declined the request to lodge the returning Nigerians.
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But the Executive Director of the CLO, Ibuchukwu Ezike, in a statement on Tuesday, said his office had been inundated with calls from Nigerians stranded in Guangzhou pleading for immediate repatriation.
Ezike said, “The Nigerians said they are appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to have compassion on them and their families. They told the CLO that they have no money for their hotel accommodation and feeding.”
