The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission to bring back no fewer than 270 Nigerians currently imprisoned or detained in Kaliti Prison, Ethiopia. The plaintiffs filed the suit on behalf of Nigerians imprisoned in Ethiopia Prison. Mmaduagwu averred that since he arrived in the prison to see his cousin, he met over 270 Nigerians in detention. He alleged that NiDCOM, in a television interview, even stated that what the detained Nigerians in Kaliti Prison are given as food cannot be fed to rats. “The 1st and 2nd respondents cannot be allowed to argue their way out of their respective statutory functions.
