As part of an effort to bring home Nigerians caught up in the ongoing crisis in Sudan, the ministers of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development and Foreign Affairs, have said plans are underway to airlift Nigerians stranded in Sudan through identified safe transit areas back home.
In a joint statement issued in Abuja by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of humanitarian affairs, Dr Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, the two ministers explained that the government has already set in motion a mechanism to ensure the safe extraction of Nigerians from Sudan to Nigeria.
Deploring the growing humanitarian crisis and attendant crisis caused by the conflict which is forcing many to flee Sudan through contiguous borders of either Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Chad on their own, the minister urged those caught up in the crisis to reach out to the Nigerian mission in Sudan for further instructions or call the following numbers, call +2348035866773,
+249961956284, +2348063636862, +249961956274 +2349066663493.
The statement notes that “the Honourable Ministers emphasise that concrete plans are underway, to deploy, very shortly, air transport to evacuate all stranded Nigerian
citizens through the identified safe transit areas back home to Nigeria in safety
and dignity.
The duo “expressed concern over the dire humanitarian situation in Sudan and empathize with the entire civilian population in the country, including the Nigerian students, and other members of the Nigerian community caught up in the ongoing crisis between the Sudanese Army and the Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.”
They assured that the federal government in partnership with other humanitarian agencies such as the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), National Commission for Refugees, Migrants
and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI)) are working very closely with the Nigerian Missions in the countries bordering Sudan, as well as with other relevant stakeholders especially the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Federal Ministry of Health, the Nigerian Armed Forces, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to immediately evacuate Nigerian students and other affected Nigerian citizens.
The Ministers, therefore, urge parents to advise their wards that while concerted efforts are being made to evacuate them, the students should endeavour to remain calm and maintain constant communication with officials of the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan.
