Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the senior Special Assistant to the President Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora said on Thursday that there were about 500 Nigerians in Chinese prisons detained for various offences.<\/p>\n
Dabiri-Erewa made this known on the side line of an international seminar on Nigeria-China relations in Abuja.<\/p>\n
She also refuted claims that there were thousands of Nigerians detained in Chinese prisons and explained that there was no prisoner transfer agreement between both countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou hear 2000 but that is exaggerated. I think we have less than 500 Nigerians in Chinese prisons.<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil we sign a treaty; there is no treaty between both countries for prisoners\u2019 transfer, when that exists the transfer of prisoners would be possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get a lot of appeals and some prisoners say they want to move from one prison there to another, it is not going to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been talking to them but their law is their law. My appeal to Nigerians is to obey the laws of that country because it is getting tougher; they have sanctions and they follow through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the senior Special Assistant to the President Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora said on Thursday that there were about 500 Nigerians in Chinese prisons detained for various offences. Dabiri-Erewa made this known on the side line of an international seminar on Nigeria-China relations in Abuja. She also refuted claims that there were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":73498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[6031,40358],"yoast_head":"\n