The Director-General of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa, Dr. Sule Yakubu-Bassi, on Wednesday alleged that Nigerian soldiers who participated in the ECOMOG peace operations in Liberia fathered over 250,000 children.
Yakubu-Bassi made the disclosure in Abuja during a meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, which is chaired by Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa.
According to the DG, the soldiers abandoned the children in Liberia when they returned to Nigeria. He added that the children's mothers were now worried over the development and had made series of failed attempts to trace the soldiers.
Yakubu-Bassi called on the committee and the Federal Government to intervene in the matter by re-uniting the children with their fathers in Nigeria.
"Their mothers are trying to make sure they are properly documented and so on.
"The Nigerian Embassy in Liberia is doing something about it.
"Definitely, you can't run away from your people. These are our people; they are still young and they need to go to school and they will also need to be nurtured just like every other Nigerian," he stated.
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