Figures from the Italian interior ministry estimated the record of
Nigerian arrivals at 36,000, most of them claiming they were running away from
Boko Haram insurgency or Niger Delta crisis.
The estimate was
as of November 2016.
The Nigerian
government was briefed by Italian authorities on this development late last
year.
“Most Nigerian
migrants pictured in this milieu, are motivated by economic and pecuniary
interests”, said a spokesman for Babachir David Lawal, secretary to the
government of the federation.
From all
indications, government may soon begin a campaign to dissuade the young
Nigerian “opportunity seekers” from embarking on the “perilous Mediterranean
crossings in their bid to emigrate to Europe”.
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