The Swiss Government has said that of the 2,700 Nigerians who
sought asylum in 2012, none was granted refugee status because of lack of
convincing reasons.
The Swiss Justice and Police Minister, Simonetta Sommaruga, who
disclosed this at the weekend in Abuja, revealed that as part of incentives by
her country to encourage illegal Nigerian migrants to return home, $1,500 was
offered to migrants who volunteered to return home.”
“About 2,700 asylum seekers came into our country last year and
almost none of them got asylum because they have not got enough reasons to become
refugees in our country,” Sommaruga said.
Sommaruga spoke during a visit to Nigeria’s Minister of State
for Foreign Affairs, Prof. (Mrs.) Viola Onwulari, in Abuja.
This was as Mrs. Onwulari expressed the Federal Government’s
concern at the frequency of death of Nigerian immigrants under police custody
in Switzerland.
Onwulari urged Sommaruga to prevail on the appropriate Swiss
authorities to conduct full investigations into the human rights issues
involving Nigerians.
Onwulari said that in addition to legal assistance to the
migrant Nigerians willing to return home, the Federal Government and the Swiss
Government would establish skills acquisition centers in Nigeria under the
Disapora skills transfer in automobile mechanic so that when the migrants return
home, they would be trained so as to be useful to themselves and the society.
Source: National Mirror
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