The Nigerian government is appealing to the Polish government to release every African in their detention camps and send them back to their countries.
The appeal is coming on the back of reports of blacks who fled Ukraine to Poland being detained.
Speaking at a Psychosocial Trauma Clinic for Ukraine Returnees in Abuja on Thursday, the chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa asked the Polish government to release every African in their country.
“There were many who told us how well they were treated along the way at every stop they got to, you heard them here.
“But in the case of what is happening now, there is a Nigerian that has reached out from a detention centre in Poland; just return them to their countries, you don’t have to keep them in detention centres.
“We have said come back home, you have said you are not coming back home and you are staying there irregularly but what we are saying is that even at that, send them back to their countries than keep them in detention centres,” she said.
The president of the Nigerian Student Union in Ukraine, Feyintola Moses who talked extensively about the trauma they faced before their evacuation, appealed to Nigerians to never wish for war.
“War is different from insecurity. War is different from a country that is trying to build up or a country that is not working so well.
“The situation of war is that anyone gets killed at any time, but if you are in Nigeria, there is still certainty, there is still security everywhere,” he said.
“I would pick a safe place over a place I don’t know what is happening,” he continued.
The national commissioner of the National Commission For Refugees, Migrants, And Internally Displaced Persons, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim promised that the Psychosocial Trauma Clinic will have offices in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria.
