Nigerians living illegally in the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia have been advised to regularize their stay or return to the country to avoid being arrested by the Saudi authorities.
The Director, Consular and Immigration Services, Mister Abdulazeez Dankano who gave the advice in Abuja while receiving 80 out of the 508 Nigerians who voluntarily submitted themselves for repatriation to Nigeria, said that the Federal Government will continue to assist Nigerians who are stranded in other parts of the world.
“These are the ones that volunteered to leave before they are arrested, and they requested government to come to their assistance for they don’t have the means to return home, so government has answered their request by providing aircraft to bring them back to Nigeria.
“Some of them are coming for the first time because they have been there (all their lives), they were born there by first generation Nigerians; some are the ones that went for Hajj and Umrah and overstayed…Some we have to go into the details of tracing their relation and integrate them with their families”, Dankano said.
Officials of the Nigeria Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, were on hand to receive the 80 Nigerians who were later handed over to State Emergency Management Agencies from Kano, Borno, Bauchi, Jigawa, Katsina, Yobe, Plateau and Nasarawa states.
