Ukraine vs Russia War: FG Reacts To Detention Of Nigerians, Other African Students In Poland

Nigeria’s Federal Government has criticised Poland for holding Nigerians and other African students fleeing war-torn Ukraine amid Russian invasion because of their dark color.

Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), voiced her disgust with the occurrence, calling it “wrong and distressing.”

On Thursday, Dabiri-Erewa spoke at the start of a two-day Psychosocial Trauma Clinic for Ukraine returnees.

She said that some Nigerian students who had escaped the war-torn Ukraine to Poland and Hungary were now being held in Poland, a development she said was unacceptable to the Federal Government.

She praised President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria for allowing the trapped students to return home.

“Imagine we are not able to bring them back home, look at what is happening in Poland?

“Some Africans and Nigerians decided not to return home, now Polish authority is now going around and capturing blacks and putting them in detention camps.

“So, those Nigerians who refused to return are at risk, some are in detention centres in Poland and they are in a traumatic condition.

“However, inasmuch as Nigeria has given them the opportunity to come back home and they refused, it does not mean the Polish authority will grab them and put them in detention centres.

“The Federal Government is now calling on the Poland authority to release the blacks in their custody.

“It is not right for them to detain the blacks because they decided to take cover in their country (Poland).

“They are not putting whites in those detention centres, so send them back to their countries instead of capturing them in detention centres which is the height of racism in a war situation,” Dabiri-Erewa said as quoted by NAN.