Air Peace has postponed plans to evacuate Nigerians willing to return from SA over the xenophobic attacks due to the fact that they have expired passp
Air Peace has postponed plans to evacuate Nigerians willing to return from SA over the xenophobic attacks due to the fact that they have expired passports. On Wednesday, Ferdinand Nwonye, the spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs, had announced the plan of the airline to evacuate Nigerians who wish to return to Nigeria free of charge.
But in a statement on Friday, Allen Onyema, chairman of Air Peace, said the evacuation which was planned to commence from Friday, suffered a setback because a majority of those interested in the process have expired passports. He said the airline had already placed its Boeing 777 aircraft on standby since September 3 and was only awaiting for further directive from the federal government.
Onyema announced the new date for evacuation as September 9 or September 10, adding that the process of passport renewal for affected persons have commenced.
