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The Federal Government has disclosed that it had deployed more buses to evacuate Nigerians who are stranded in war-torn Sudan.
This was revealed in a tweet by Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, on Saturday.
“And finally, more buses are now heading to Egypt from Khartoum. Again, let’s keep them in our prayers as they journey back home from this ravaging war in Sudan,” Dabiri-Erewa said in the tweet.
The short statement was accompanied by a 49-second video detailing the classification of the evacuees by their destination states.
The revelation comes a few days after some of the stranded Nigerians claimed they were abandoned in the desert for about four hours without water or food when drivers of the buses reportedly protested the late payment of their allowances.
It be recalled that the FG said it needed $1.2m to deploy 40 buses to evacuate over 2,400 Nigerians from Sudan to Cairo, Egypt where they will be airlifted to Nigeria.
