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Stay Home And Build, Rep Tells Nigerians Seeking Greener Pasture



Abuja – The chairperson of the House of epresentatives Committee on Diaspora, Rep Rita Orji (PDP, Lagos), has called on Nigerian youths in diaspora to come back home and make themselves useful instead of being targeted for hate crimes that lead to untimely deaths in the hands of citizens of they host countries.

Rep Orji who stated this in light alof recent killing of 5 Nigerians in Ghana and another Nigerian in South Africa, less than a week ago  also called on the Federal Government of Nigeria and that of Ghana to urgently intervene in the crisis that has led to the death of the 5 Nigerians in that country.

Making the call today in Abuja during a media briefing in her office, Rep  Orji expressed concern that issues that concern Nigerians with citizens of their host Countries were often left to degenerate to the point of claiming lives.

Speaking on the need to forestall further occurrences in the future, Orji said her committee has come up with a project which is aimed at encouraging Nigerian youths to stay in the country and put their talent to use, as well as bring back those already out to do same.

“That leads me to a project which we have initiated since last year waiting for commencement which I call, ‘Stay Home and Build’, In collaboration with Nigerians in Diaspora Organisations in various countries. We want to take these youths into custody of good Nigerians that wil place them in companies where they will learn technologies, and as they learnt, they wil return home and they will be empowered to continue practising what they have learnt.

“We are working with the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) on building the most sophisticated technology acquisition centre which aproval I have gotten right now that will take at least 600 youths. We are working with Nigerians in Diaspora, European chapter, American chapter, African chapter who all just left Nigeria after our recent meeting, that they will help us in locating Nigerian youths that are doing nothing in their various countries to help put them in companies over there where they can learn technical skills after which we will bring them home to key into the NDE project which is commencing next month”, she said.
Orji noted that such incidents were re-occurring because the laws binding African Countries together is always segregated when Nigerians are involved, adding that it is only in Nigeria that such conventions are respected and adhered to as even neighbouring African countries don’t hesitate to kill Nigerians out of sheer hatred.

She urged the Federal Government to insist on full autopsy report of any Nigerian killed extra-judicially outside the country to check unsubstantiated frequent claim of drug involvement by the victims.

She further appealed for proper funding of the “Stay home and Build Project, as well as the proposed Diaspora Commission which establishment Act has been signed into law by the presidency, adding that both initiatives would help in checking  incessant murder of Nigerians abroad.

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