The House of Representatives, yesterday condemned the ill-treatment and discrimination against Nigerians living in South Africa, stressing that at least more than 409 were currently serving jail terms in the country.
Chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed this in a statement issued after the committee’s visit to two prisons in South Africa.
She described the increasing number of Nigerians in foreign prisons as “ridiculously embarrassing.”

