The commission's chairman, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed this during a seminar on “Sensitisation and Advocacy Program for Promoting Diaspora Investment Potentials in South-West Nigeria,” held in Lagos.
Dabiri-Erewa recounted a recent case where a Nigerian woman, sent by her husband to work as a caregiver in Iraq, died under mysterious circumstances. “As I speak with you today, there are about 5,000 women stranded in Iraq. I just dealt with a case last week. A husband sent his wife to Iraq to go and be a caregiver. She’s dead,” she said.
The commission is now working to repatriate the woman's body. “How do you bring the body back? That’s what is worrying the husband. He doesn’t know where to start. So we had to intervene. The mission had been able to intervene, they would do an autopsy to see how she died because she just died mysteriously being a caregiver,”
She emphasized the importance of exploring local opportunities instead of risking dangerous migrations. “There’s no point in seeking a better life and then you die in the process. This is our own little way of saying there are opportunities in Nigeria,” she noted, adding that similar workshops will be conducted across Nigeria’s geopolitical zones to promote investment potential.
Very wrong place to be stranded in.
ReplyDeleteNigerians and their waka waka.
Life is hard in Nigeria, people ran out of options, nobody likes to leave the freedom they enjoy in their fatherland to a strange land. It requires sacrifice.
ReplyDeleteMay her soul rest in peace and may everyone looking for greener pastures in other nation find mercy, you shall not die timely.
Life is hard everywhere in the world. Arab people are some of the problematic people to deal with because of their attitude. I wonder why would anyone want to go to Iraq in the first place.
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