President Buhari has given his piece of candid advice to illegal migrants hustling by land to seek greener pastures in Europe.
President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged illegal migrants to stay back home, and find ways to improve their personal economies rather than risk their life at Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea.
Buhari stated this when he received Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, who came as Special Envoy of President Paul Kagame, at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday.
He said Nigeria had taken it upon herself to bring back thousands of her citizens now stranded in Libya.
“Illegal migration is now a major issue in Africa.
“Many dare the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea to get into Europe, and many die in the process or they get into trouble, as we now see in Libya.
“I don’t envy our position, as many Blacks claim to be Nigerians, even when they are not. Our Embassies in North Africa are now overworked, trying to identify the true Nigerians.
According to the President, most of the reasons they mention for migrating illegally are untenable.
The President said Kagame, as the incoming Chairman of African Union (AU), had the issues of South Sudan, separatist agitation in southern Cameroon, unrest in Togo, and many others on the continent, to contend with.
He said “Gaddafi’s long rule produced many people, whose only skill is how to shoot guns.
“Now, they are scattered around the continent, still with their weapons, and fomenting trouble.”