NIGERIAN STUDENTS IN WUHAN BEG TO COME HOME

• No Amount of Money Can Take The Place of Home
• Isolation for One Month Having Psychological Effects

Nigerian students in Wuhan, China have again implored the Nigerian government to evacuate them as the novel coronavirus disease continues to spread rapidly. The students claimed that staying indoors for about a month with little or no human contact has taken its toll on them psychologically.

While the Nigerian students acknowledged the Federal Government’s recent donation of RMB235,000 (N12m) to Nigerians living in Wuhan, they complained that they spent most of the money on food supplies, hand gel sanitizers, disinfectants, face masks, hand gloves, as well as electricity, internet and phone bills.

The outbreak of the disease was first recorded on December 31, 2019, in Wuhan and has since spread across the world with over 86,000 cases, 39000 recoveries, and 2900 deaths recorded.

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“Coming home isn’t and shouldn’t be negotiable. No amount of money can compensate for the psychological and emotional trauma we are going through. We have had none to very limited human contact for a month. The money sent isn’t sufficient as prices have increased significantly. How long would we have to endure this? No one is certain,” one of the students said while expressing concern that the government had not shown any sign of evacuating them, and it seemed that the government simply donated the N12m to keep them in China.

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The students said no financial gesture from the Federal Government could replace that of evacuating them from Wuhan.

“Inasmuch as we received money from the Federal Government, we still want to be evacuated because staying indoors for almost a month now is really affecting us psychologically, coupled with the fact that the virus outbreak is still on the rise,” he said.