By Charles Adingupu
Despite $1.2Million reportedly budgeted, the bus drivers ferrying trapped Nigerian Students and other nationals in a protest, dumped their passengers in the Sahara Desert over none payment for service being rendered.
Appeal by the stranded Nigerian evacuees fell on deaf ears as the drivers insisted that they will not move the bus until they are paid.
In a video that has since gone viral the students and others were seen trapped in the middle of the desert with no hope of assistance from any quarter.
The bus claimed that the Nigerian government and other relevant stakeholders had not paid them.
The video posted by one Dr. Ahmed Small on his Twitter verified handle, the hapless students were seen expressing their frustrations after being dumped by the protesting drivers at the middle of nowhere.
The Buses evacuating Nigerian students and non-student were stopped in the middle of the Sahara, and the drivers refused to continue the journey because they were not PAID @NigeriaMFA,” Dr Ahmad captioned the Video
A female student is heard in the video complaining that the drivers insisted that they would not leave the desert unless they were paid.
She said, “Before we started this journey, we had to go on several fightings. Can you even imagine, we are stuck in this desert for five hours. We don’t even know the situation we are. Our money has finished,” she lamented.
Reacting to the ugly development, the Chairman of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed later today, that issue has been resolved with the protesting bus drivers.
