Abuja — House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Matters yesterday vowed to confront the Chinese government over the planned cremation of the bodies of 30 Nigerians who died under questionable circumstances in China.

The Committee also condemned the inhuman treatment given to Nigerian immigrants in Libya as 150 Nigerians were deported from the North African country on allegations that they entered Libya without official travel documents and settled there as illegal aliens. House Committee on Diaspora , had in the wake of these developments summoned the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, to explain what the Nigerian Embassies have been doing to ameliorate the plight of Nigerians in foreign lands.

Maduekwe however failed to honour the invitation on the excuse that he was still in New York, United States attending the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora Matters, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who gave hints on the latest developments in the two countries said those deported from Libya arrived the Nigeria yesterday.

Dabiri-Erewa, at an interaction with newsmen, said apart from those deported, four others were still held in a Libyan prison while about 600 other Nigerians were still awaiting deportation from Libya . She said given the two case scenarios of the dehumanizing manner Nigerians were being treated abroad, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, ought to intervene to stop these negative trends in the relationship between Nigeria and other countries.

According to her, the incidents of Nigerian immigrants being randomly clamped into jail in Libya and China's insistence on cremating the bodies of 30 dead Nigerians without any response from the Nigerian Embassies in those countries speaks volumes of the unwillingness of Nigerian diplomats to live up to their responsibilities.