MURIC Hails NIDCOM’s Efforts to Rescue Nigerians Stuck in Central African Republic

Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has praised the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) for saving Nigerians who were stuck in the Central African Republic (CAR) and transporting them to the Nigerian Embassy’s secure location there.

In a statement, MURIC’s Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, also urged both domestic and foreign parties to help NIDCOM repatriate the miners to Nigeria.

Remember how a video of several Nigerian miners pleading for assistance went viral a few days ago? After allegedly being duped into going to the Central Africa Republic (CAR) to work at the mines, they were left stranded.

“They were reportedly hired for work in that country by a Nigerian agent and a Chinese national, who left them there for 11 months without paying their compensation. They were traumatized, distressed, and debilitated, and they had called for help.”

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“The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), led by its chairman and CEO, Abike Dabiri, demonstrated capable and dynamic leadership in ensuring the prompt rescue of the trapped Nigerians.

The NIDCOM head is praised by MURIC for her excellent leadership qualities. Likewise, we commend the Nigerian embassy workers in Bangui, CAR, as well as the nation’s security services for identifying the miners and bringing them to the embassy. The embassy employees in particular are deserving of praise for their hospitality.

But until it’s over, it’s not over. To help NIDCOM bring the miners to Nigeria at last, we are urging both domestic and foreign stakeholders to lend a hand. Nigerian airlines, philanthropists, business titans, and international stakeholders such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM) can all be mobilized by the Federal Government of Nigeria to help make this a reality.

“MURIC demand that the agent who tricked them into the work scam be found right now, arrested, and prosecuted. Interpol should track down the Chinese collaborator as well and hold him accountable. No Nigerian ought to endure this kind of adversity.