A grab taken from an AFPTV video shows a convoy leaving Khartoum towards Port Sudan, on April 23, 2023, as people flee the battle-torn Sudanese capital. (Photo by Abubakarr JALLOH / AFP)
Stranded Nigerians have expressed their frustration as the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan continue to delay their movement from Khartoum to Cairo in Egypt.
The reports that the Federal Government said it was making preparations to evacuate about 5,500 stranded Nigerians out of Sudan through the Egyptian town of Luxor, adding that it was seeking Egypt’s support so that the stranded Nigerians could be moved to Luxor.
However, in a letter dated 23 April 2023, signed by the Charge D’ Affairs, Haruna Garko, and sighted by our correspondent on Monday, the Embassy of Nigeria, Sudan made a request for buses to convey students from Khartoum to Cairo on Tuesday at 6 am.
The letter read “I am directed to request the services of your 200-seater buses to convey 3500 Nigerian students from Khartoum to Cairo Egypt on 25 April 2023, at 6 am in the morning.”
It was also reported that trapped Nigerian students were yet to leave Khartoum in the morning.
In a video sent to our correspondent on Tuesday evening, people were seen with their luggage in a big environment (International University of Africa) and a man was heard shouting “If e reach 5 pm, all of us go leave our wives and children here and go meet them at the Embassy. We came here legally. Tomorrow, I will be two weeks in Sudan. Look at my visa.
“Why is the Embassy using us to play?”
Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
