“We were sexually harassed, paid to urinate,hungry and thirsty, ” Sudan returnees recount ordeal

Returning Nigerian students from Egypt who were flown back to Nigeria have described their experience, stating that some women were sexually harassed and that they were so poor that they had to steal items from stores and flee.

At the international airport in Abuja, a returning female student informed journalists that they endured humiliation and had to sleep in the open.

“We spent all the money we had. We were so hungry and thirsty. They were harassing us sexually. There was no food, no water to drink. It got to a point we picked things from shops and ran away,” the returnee female student spoke of her excruciating experience while at the border.

Another female student claimed in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service that her legs were swelled from spending so much time in buses.

Speaking about his experience, a male student claimed that things were so awful that they even had to pay before they could urinate. He expressed his hope that the war would stop soon so that he could return to Sudan and finish just one semester of his degree there.