Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), has revealed that 99% of Nigerians are currently languishing in Ethiopian prisons for drug trafficking offences. Dabiri-Erewa made this revelation in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday. Abike Dabiri-ErewaShe 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. A whole lot of them returned again, committed the same offense—drugs—and then they were arrested.”The NIDCOM boss, however, dismissed a viral video claiming that 250 Nigerians are languishing in Ethiopian prisons and that they were going to be killed. She said, “Some Nigerians did a video and just said 250 Nigerians are in Ethiopian prisons and they are going to kill them.

Source: Ethiopian News November 25, 2023 16:50 UTC