The Embassy of Nigeria in Chad on Friday said no fewer than one hundred and two Nigerians were in the country’s prisons, serving varying jail terms. Charge d’Affaires in the embassy Nasiru Waje divulged this in N’djamena to some Nigerian journalists on a working visit to Chad. He said that the inmates, some of whom had not been convicted, were in various prisons across the country however, stating that thirty-nine of the prisoners had regained freedom following the intervention of the embassy. The envoy also said that eight thousand persons who fled communities in the North-East due to persisting Boko Haram crises, were in Chad and had been registered as refugees and an additional five thousand victims of the insurgency were registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR), adding that there were many other unregistered refugees also in Chad, from Yobe State.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 08, 2019 15:11 UTC