Abike Dabiri-Erewa
By Our Reporter
The Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said that 99 per cent of Nigerians in Ethiopian prisons are in for drug trafficking offences.
Dabiri-Erewa stated this in an interview on Channels Television programme: “Politics Today,” on Friday.
She said: “Sometime ago, the Nigerian Mission in Ethiopia had a long conversation with the Ethiopian authorities, and they got amnesty for every Nigerian in that prison.
“So they left.
“They let them go and they came back to the country.
“But guess what?
“A whole lot of them returned again, committed the same offence – drugs – and then they were arrested.
“Some Nigerians did a video and just said 250 Nigerians are in Ethiopian prisons, and they are going to kill them.
“I’m telling you categorically that the video was a lie.
“And that’s part of the problem.
“Anyone can do a video.
“That is the subject of a Senate investigation.
“I was in the Senate, and I believe that next week, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Diaspora and NGOs, Senator Victor Umeh, is going to present his report.
“So I don’t want to go ahead with what he is going to present, but here is what we told the Senate: That is a lie, we don’t have 250 Nigerians in Ethiopian prison.
“I gave them the list of Nigerians.
“Less than 150 Nigerians are in one prison.
“And 99 per cent of them are there for drugs.”
