The Federal Government has disclosed that Nigerian evacuees from Sudan will undergo trauma counselling.
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Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa made this disclosure on Saturday.
She said;
There will be trauma counselling for all the returnees because they have gone through a lot of traumas. Watch out for information on various websites of the emergency team on various counselling for everyone. We are talking to Dangote and some other NGOs about that.
Also speaking, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management of Social Development, Nasir Sani-Gwarzo explained that only smaller planes can evacuate stranded Nigerians in Port Sudan for now.
Sani-Gwarzo, stated this after receiving the third batch of 131 evacuees from Port Sudan in Abuja.
The Tarco airline plane B737-300 that conveyed the third batch of returnees touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport at 1.45 pm on Saturday.
Sani-Gwarzo said efforts are still on to get permits from the Sudanese government and other neighbouring countries so as to send bigger planes.
Speaking at the reception for the evacuees, Sani-Gwarzo also gave the assurance that more planes will be going to Sudan.
He said;
More aircraft will go. Our limitation has not been the ability to send aircraft but the fact that large-bodied aircraft cannot go to Port Sudan at the moment except smaller ones, otherwise, you would have seen about 500 at a go.
We are still working with the Sudanese government and those countries along the route to make sure that large-bodied aircraft can go. With that, I assure you in less than 24 hours, we will finish the evacuation.
A total of 637 evacuees have been evacuated back home from Egypt and Port Sudan since the country started airlifting on Wednesday.
The first batch of 376 were airlifted on Wednesday night while the second batch of 130 were airlifted by a Sudanese aircraft, Tarco on Friday.
