Nigeria Update
COVID-19: Foreign Affairs minister reveals reason foreigners are leaving Nigeria
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama has revealed why foreigners are leaving Nigeria in this COVID-19 period.
Speaking at a Presidential Task Force briefing, Onyeama said that the foreigners aren’t leaving Nigerian because the country doesn’t have good medical facilities.
According to the Minister, they are leaving Nigeria just so they can access the medical care they are used to in their country.
“I think the foreigners who are leaving, whether there is something they know that we don’t know, I think it is a lot more innocent than that,” the ministers told reporters at the briefing.
“It is basically a case where people are more familiar with the health systems in their various countries and so prefer to go to the various countries so in the event that they might have to be confined, they will be in more familiar surroundings.
“And they will also have access to the medical practitioners that they are used to and, of course, facilities that they are used to. So that’s really the reason.”
Onyema added that despite the evacuation of citizens, countries who did such still have their ambassadors and embassy staff in Nigeria.
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