The evacuation of about 2,400 students and other Nigerians trapped by the ongoing conflict in Sudan is off to a slow start on Wednesday, April 26 as only 15 out of the 40 needed buses required for the evacuation had been provided.
According to reports, the Federal Government had hired 40 buses for the repatriation of citizens from Khartoum and other cities to Egypt, but only 10 buses were available as of Wednesday morning, with five extra buses coming in later in the day.
This development had come with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama claiming that the Federal Government had been charged $1.2m for the evacuation of Nigerians out of Sudan.
Onyeama had claimed insecurity in Sudan for the staggering cost of evacuation.
