Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State says he has information that some Nigerians have been sentenced to 500 and 1,000 years imprisonment in Ghana.
Umahi said this on Tuesday at the 59th Independence Day anniversary ceremony held at Pa Uruta Ngele Township Stadium, Abakaliki.
The governor said the inordinate pursuit of wealth and devaluation of the Nigerian culture by Nigerians had sent many of them out of the country to where they were languishing in pains and “crying had I known.”
Umahi said: “The way we are being treated outside the shores of this country should make us to evaluate ourselves.
“I get a lot of phone calls from people in Ghana saying that a lot of our people were sentenced to 500 and some 1,000 years imprisonment.”
