Aisha Umar With Agency Report
18 October 2009
Abuja — Two hundred and thirty four Sierra-Leonean refugees, who agreed to integrate locally have got Nigerian passports as part of activities marking the 2009 Refugees' Day celebration.
Hajiya Hadiza Kangiwa, the Federal Commissioner, National Refugees Commission, said this while speaking to newsmen at the symbolic issuance of passports to the refugees in Abuja on Friday. Kangiwa said those from Sierra-Leone were being considered now because the commission was still expecting the Liberians to complete their verification exercise before getting their passports. She said the arrangement followed the 2007 Multi-Tripartite agreement on the protracted refugee's situation of Liberians and Sierra-Leoneans. "It is not logical to continue to keep people as refugees, they need people to cut their grass, they need people to give them food. "As a result of the protracted situation, refugee's situation cannot stay for a long time.
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