Transfer of prisoners from
China to Nigeria can only be possible if there is a signed treaty to the effect
by the two countries.
Many prisoners have
inundated Nigeria, asking to be transferred from Chinese prisons, but such
transfers are impossible for now.
There is no treaty between
the countries for prisoners’ transfer, when that exists the transfer of
prisoners would be possible, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said.
Dabiri-Erewa said at the
seminar on Nigeria-China relations in Abuja on Thursday that, “We 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”.
“We 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.”
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