Amid the current rise in emigration otherwise known as “Japa” in Nigeria, a former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, has described western countries who are granting visas to young Nigerians as “wicked”
The chieftain of the All Progressives Congress stated this via an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation.
According to him, these western countries are deliberately giving Nigerian youth visas to leave the country, without putting the origin country into consideration.
“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 are 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”
He however shared the sentiments of the many Nigerians who have left the shores of the nation in search of greener pastures, according to him, many of them had to leave because of the high state of insecurity, unstable economy among other factors.
He also expressed his optimism that the nation will be great again.
“I am sure Nigeria will be great again, but the reports of migration recently have been disheartening for me”.
