A group of Nigerians, who recently arrived from the United Kingdom, on Saturday protested their continued isolation by the Federal Government after 16 days of quarantine in Abuja.


The Federal Government COVID-19 policy for flight passengers into the country specifield an institutionalised isolation for 14 days.

However, a series of videos showing the evacuees protesting at their Hotel in Wuse 2 area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, where the UK evacuees are presumably being isolated, circulated widely on social media.

They were heard expressing disapproval that, since their return to Nigeria on May 8, their passports had not been returned back to them.

The face-mask-wearing evacuees, who occupied the entrance of the hotel with police officers and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps mounting standing guard, were seen agitating.

One of them could be heard saying, “They are just keeping us here to make money. Yes, the more they keep you here, the more money they make.”


SUPREMEWRITER REPORTS.