Ex-Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has condemned the growing immigration of Nigerian youths abroad, blaming Western nations for accepting them.
According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the number of foreign migrants from Nigeria in 2020 will be 1.7 million, up from 990,000 a decade ago.
Amosun, the chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, claimed in a recent interview with BBC Yoruba that the countries embracing Nigerian youngsters are doing Nigeria more harm than good.
“I have heard about it and the reports are scary. All our youths and young talents are traveling out of Nigeria, seeking greener pastures, and the prospective countries are deliberately giving them visas to leave the country, without putting the origin country into consideration,” Amosun stated.
“What scares me most in all this is the proliferation of emigration. Foreigners will not fix our nation for us if all our citizens should leave the country. I am seeing the countries granting visas to our youths as wicked because they are not considering the origin nation, from which their prospective labour force is coming from.
“If you ask our people leaving the nation for greener pastures, they will tell you that they are not planning to return to Nigeria. If you look closely at the situation, you would see that all our lawyers, accountants and most especially medical practitioners make up the largest chunk of the people leaving the country. We cannot blame them however; insecurity is one of the major problems pushing our people out of the country.”
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