The Polish Ministry of International Affairs introduced, on Wednesday, {that a} group of Polish college students and a lecturer detained in Nigeria have been launched.
The College of Warsaw college students had been arrested earlier this month in Kano after being accused of elevating Russian flags throughout anti-government protests.
The protests, which started on August 1, drew tens of hundreds of Nigerians, main youths, into the streets, fueled by widespread discontent over President Bola Tinubu’s financial reforms.
The reforms, together with the partial elimination of gasoline and electrical energy subsidies and forex devaluation, have led to hovering inflation, inflicting extreme financial pressure throughout the nation.
Nigerian authorities initially claimed that the Polish nationals had been actively concerned within the protests by waving Russian flags—an act that raised issues, given Russia’s growing presence in West Africa.
Nonetheless, the Polish overseas ministry rapidly dismissed these allegations, stating that the scholars had been merely close to the protest and never taking part in it.
After their launch, the scholars remained in Kano, in response to a social media put up by the Polish overseas ministry, which expressed gratitude to these concerned in securing their freedom.
“The Polish college students have been launched and are in Kano,” the Polish overseas ministry mentioned in a put up on social media platform X. “Thanks to everybody concerned within the launch of the Polish residents!”
When requested after they would return to Poland, the MFA spokesman, Paweł Wroński, replied that the Ministry of International Affairs would organise transport as quickly as potential, however when precisely the scholars would return to Poland would rely on their particular person plans.
“I believe they are going to be within the nation by the tip of the week,” Wroński mentioned, including that the College of Warsaw would even be concerned within the transport.
When requested why the scholars had been arrested, Wroński mentioned: “They had been within the unsuitable place on the unsuitable time.”
