Returnee Nigerian students who were airlifted back to Nigeria from Egypt have recalled their journey, stating that some girls were sexually assaulted and were so poor that they stole items from shops and fled.
On arriving at Abuja International Airport, a returnee female student told journalists that they were humiliated and slept in the open.
“We spent all of our money.” We were starving and thirsty. They were sexually harassing us. There was no food and no water. “It got to the point where we picked things from shops and ran away,” the returnee female student described her agonizing experience at the border.
Another female student told the BBC Hausa Service that her legs were inflamed from spending so much time in buses.
Speaking of his experience, a male student stated that the situation was so awful that they had to pay money to be allowed to urinate, and that he hoped the war would stop soon so that he could return to Sudan and finish his program in just a semester.
