Afrigather The Senate has moved to analyze the alleged killings and imprisonment of over 250 Nigerians in Ethiopia.
This adopted a movement, titled, ‘Pressing want to analyze the illegal killings and incarceration of over 250 Nigerians in Ethiopia,’ and sponsored by the Minority Chief, Senator Simon Mwadkwon, member of the Peoples Democratic Occasion, representing Plateau North, and Senator Victor Umeh, member of the Younger Progressives Occasion, representing Anambra Central.
Presenting the movement, Mwadkwon urged the Senate to direct the Committees on Diaspora and International Affairs to work with the Federal Authorities to instantly represent a committee to go to the Republic of Ethiopia with a view to investigating what is occurring to Nigerians within the international land.
He additionally known as on the FG to instantly direct the Ethiopian embassy to collaborate with the delegation of the Senate Committees on Diaspora and International Affairs to discover a lasting resolution to issues being confronted and/or encountered by Nigerians who’re held in Ethiopia.
Mwadkwon mentioned, “The video clip being circulated within the social media signifies that Nigerians are held captives within the most jail of Ethiopia and are in critical peril which requires pressing intervention and thorough probe into the heinous actions.”
He lamented that this was occurring regardless of the clarion name for unity amongst nations of the world.
The Senate chief mentioned, “There’s a widespread info presently being circulated by Dr. Paul Ezike calling the Nigerian authorities to intervene on the inhumanity and torture that Nigerians are receiving in Ethiopia with out proof from the fee of any crime.”
He added that “based mostly on the widespread info being circulated that over 250 Nigerians who’ve continued to face these maltreatment and inhumanity haven’t dedicated any crime identified to any regulation and there’s no proof of any court docket proceedings, stating the classes of crimes they’ve dedicated or any court docket conviction in that regard.”
He additional famous that “in the intervening time based mostly on the sovereignty of this nation and the sanctity of the lives and properties of all Nigerians all around the world as captured within the Nigerian structure particularly sections 33, 34 and 35 of the 1999 structure as amended which has related provisions in different worldwide codes, devices and conventions which Nigeria and Ethiopia are signatories to, there isn’t any justification in anyway for taking away the dignity of any individual, not to mention taking away the lifetime of a citizen.”
“Within the midst of the financial and social hardships being skilled by our residents, some over 250 individuals who belong to this nation are presently being subjected to inhuman and degrading remedy which requires pressing intervention of those hallowed chambers because the lives of these 250 folks matter most to us.”
“It’s pathetic {that a} nation as populous as Nigeria, the large of Africa, our residents are being held in captivity within the twenty first century the place the decision is for unity amongst nation-states however fairly lugubriously that Ethiopia has chosen shallow path to maltreat and mistreat the residents of Nigeria with none justification as proven in a video by Dr. Paul Ezike,” the lawmaker additional careworn.
