KANO: Govt receives over 310 Saudi returnees from FG

THE Federal Government has handed over about 310 out of the 1,319 stranded Nigerians evacuated from Saudi Arabia that are indigenes of Kano State to the state government.

The  Director, Consular and Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Bolaji Akinremi, disclosed this on Tuesday.

Akinremi noted that the quarantine period of the returnees had elapsed.

He added that the evacuees were quarantined at the FCT hajj camp on arrival from Saudi Arabia where they were remanded at a deportation facility before their evacuation to Nigeria.

 “The returnees who were well catered for by the Federal Government have tested negative to coronavirus before being discharged.”a statement issued on Tuesday by an official of the Media, Public Relations and Protocol Unit of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Gabriel Odu quoted Akinremi to have said.

Receiving them on behalf of the Kano State Government, the Director General, Kano Investment Promotion Agency and Diaspora, Hajia Hama Mohammed expressed gratitude to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission for their untiring efforts.

“The state government is ever ready to receive them and make home (Kano) better for them than where they came from through vocational education and skills acquisition,” Mohammed assured.