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.
So Iraq is the better opportunity or option? You guys are not yet serious.
DeleteLife 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.
ReplyDeleteIts only hopelessness that can drive these women there. God Have mercy!
ReplyDeleteIraq, of all countries.
ReplyDeleteMay her soul rest in peace
Oh no!... All in the name of looking for greener pasture. Rest in peace ma'am
ReplyDeleteThere are some countries you don't 'japa' to abeg. Imagine Iraq of all places...may God help bring them back home.
ReplyDeleteI fear that many ppl remain uneducated about history and the treatment of Africans in some of these places that they run to. I saw a video from the UAE of a local businessman beating a grown Indian man, and that was in uae, which is supposed to be far better than Iraq to live and work in. Now, if a grown man can be beaten in the streets what will protect an African woman from abuse in these places? There are poor Iraqi women who can go do caregiver work, why would they need to import anyone.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why so many remain ignorant after all these years and think matters will be better for them. The chances of meeting a good employer in these places is less than 20%, and that is being generous. It doesn’t matter the country, it’s a regional problem and those ppl don’t treat their employees right. The abuse from physical to sexual is ever present and can be quite extreme, up to death. Something is wrong with those nations and I ain’t trying to find out what it it. I just stay away from them.
If I was to guess what killed her, it is likely she refused some sexual advance, as any good married woman should. A fight happened and she died. But there is always the possibility that she was beaten to death. May her soul rip.