Coronavirus: Foreign Affairs Minister Explains Why Returning Nigerians Have To Pay For Evacuation

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The federal government has come out to give reasons why returning Nigerians have to pay for their feeding and isolation after they returned to Nigeria. The FG said they had to pay for their own feeding and other amenities because the government does not have enough resources to cater for them.
Nigerians Have To Pay
Nigerians Have To Pay

He explained that the citizens could not be housed at the National Youth Service orientation camps or school dormitories because each person had to be accommodated in a room and the only option was to keep them in hotels, noting that the best room rate in Abuja was N15,000.
The Federal government had on Thursday directed all its embassies not to airlift any Nigerian who did not pay for his quarantine and feeding ahead of the evacuation. Addressing the development, the minister stated, “This is not by any stretch of imagination something the government is happy to do. As I mentioned, if the resources were there, we would evacuate everybody.” He explained that 620 persons had been evacuated and quarantined, adding that the government was expending resources in managing them.
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