1500 Nigerians In Italian Prisons - Envoy Reveals
At least 1500 Nigerians are serving jail terms for various offences in Italy, Italian Ambassador to Nigeria, Stefanou Pontesilli, has revealed.
“In Italy we have about 1500 Nigerians in jail for various offences. It is a big number,” Pontesilli told journalists in Abuja.
“We sometimes send them back to Nigeria once they finished their terms because they have not behaved well.”
But he denied reports that the European country sometimes send Nigerian migrants from there to Libya.
He said, “Never, we never sent anyone not even one single person to Libya.
“Some Nigerians are stuck in Libya because they were never able to cross over to Italy, but all those who went to Italy no one, not even one was ever sent back.
“All Nigerians who have reached Italy and are behaving well have no problem.
“Not one of them not even one has heard of being sent back to Libya.”
He confirmed that thousands of Nigerians unable to cross from Libya to Italy have been stuck in Libya.
“That is why Italy has been doing so much on the migration by saving tens and thousands of the Nigerians’ lives when crossing the Mediterranean.
“Authority has been doing so much by taking them to Italy, feeding them, getting them jobs, giving them house and trying to give them a new life,” he added.
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