By: Friday Anyeve
The inability of the Federal Government to evacuate Nigerians, especially students living in conflict torn Sudan has drawn severe criticisms from a pan northern group, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum .
In a press release signed by the National President of the group, Ahmed Yerima and made available to journalists, the group noted that it is only the Nigeria government that has not taken steps to evacuate it’s citizens from the war-torn country
“It is totally unacceptable that while several countries were evacuating their citizens from Sudan, ours is the only African nation giving excuses.
The AYCF also stated that thousands of Nigerians mainly students of Northern extraction are stranded and stand the risk of being caught up in the violence that engulfed the North African country.
Furthermore, the Northern Group laid the blame squarely on the doorstep of the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan
While urging for quick action to evacuate Nigerians from Sudan, it warned that, it would hold Nigerian Embassy Staff in Sudan responsible
“With thousands of Nigerians in Sudan, especially male and female Northern students being the majority, we reject the lame excuse given in a letter by the Nigeria Embassy about the difficulty of evacuating our sons and daughters. No Northerner in this country is at peace since the killings and arson started in Sudan.
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