Seven Nigerians who participated in the #EndSARS protest at Cairo, Egypt are to be deported from the country.
Confirming the development, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), in a series of tweets, ascribed reasons behind the deportation to lack of resident permits.
“The Egyptian authorities have said that seven out of the eight #ENDSARS Nigerians who protested in Egypt on October 18, will be deported to Nigeria for lack of resident permits/visas,” the series of tweets began.
The Commission however noted that the the “only Nigerian among them who has residency permit will get final clearance from the Egyptian Interior Minister, Mahmoud Tawfik after signing an undertaking not to be involved in any unauthorised activities while still in the country.”
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has disclosed that the Nigerian mission in Egypt is pleading for leniency on behalf of the seven Nigerians billed for deportation.
Ms Abike who denied that the Government of Nigeria was instrumental to the arrests and planned deportation of the protesters, explained that they were not arrested at the Nigerian Embassy but at another location.
She therefore tasked Nigerians abroad on the need to be good ambassadors of the country by obeying the laws of their respective host nations.
