Got this email from Funmi Macaulay, a US-born Nigerian presently living
in Brooklyn, NYC, and the founder of Nigerians Unite Against Boko Haram
(NUABH). She wrote an article about the plight of Ihuoma and Victoria,
two young Nigerians living and studying in Canada who are on the verge
of
being deported back to Nigeria. The two girls have been holed up in a
church basement the last nine months and .
See Funmi's article below...
I am surprised that I have not read in any media, local or
international, about efforts by the Nigerian government to help two
Nigerian students who have been on deportation list in Canada for a
'crime' that makes mockery of the very ideals that western societies
proud themselves on - hard work. Victoria Ordu and Ihuoma Amadi, 20 and
21 respectively, having been holed up in the basement of a church in
Canada - not for document forgery. No, not for 419, internet scam or
fake marriage, but for attempting to work and earn decent stipends to
augment what they get from home.
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