Nigeria has secured the release of its citizen, Temitope Ariwolo, held in detention in Lebanon for allegedly attempting to kill her employer and theft, Igbere TV reports.
Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Diaspora, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, revealed this on Friday after the third interagency synergy meeting on the rising human trafficking and dehumanisation of Nigerians in the diaspora held at the National Assembly.
Akande-Sadipe said that Ariwolo and other Nigerians stranded in Lebanon would return to Nigeria before the end of the week.
She said: “I am happy to inform Nigerians that Temitope will be home before the end of the week, and so many other Nigerians who want to return home from Lebanon.
“This evacuation has been made possible through the Lebanese collaboration. and continuous efforts by the House of Representatives Diaspora Committee, IOM, NAPTIP, NIDCOM, Min of Foreign Affairs and the Nigerian Ambassador in Lebanon, Amb. Goni Modu.”
The committee had on Thursday met the Lebanese ambassador, Diab Houssam, on the issue.
Akande-Sadipe added: “It is important to inform this gathering that about 35 Nigerians have been held illegally in detention for more than 45 days in Ghana border town of Aflao; whilst the embassy is working on the 18 others held in Abidjan for over two years, and the matter of Sulaimon Olufemi on death row in Saudi Arabia.
“The unconfirmed story of our girls currently held hostage by an agent in Lebanon and that of a man being brutally assaulted to mention a few are under urgent investigation.”
