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Why we allowed 127 Côte d’Ivoire returnees into Nigeria – FG

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The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, defended the decision of the Federal Government to allow 127 Nigerians, who returned from Côte d’Ivoire through the Ogun State land border, to enter Nigeria

He said,

“Depending on the characteristics of such a returnee, he could be picked up based on his record and detained and, in this instance, the arrangement made by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and other agencies involved is to isolate such returnees.

“We have even signed an international treaty that says no human being is stateless. We are not even talking about those who are accredited nationals of Nigeria. We are saying, by our own admission and commitment, we do not believe any human being is stateless.”

WuzupNigeria reports that all the 127 returnees had been tested and 18 of them had returned positive.

All the 18 coronavirus cases were said to have been moved out of the isolation centre to another facility. Before 18 cases were recorded, the state had two COVID-19 patients.

The 127 travellers from the West African nation had arrived the state last Saturday and were kept in isolation at the Unity High School, Ejigbo, where many of the returnees hailed from.

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