Many migrants claiming to be Nigerians are not – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari says many black migrants claiming to be Nigerians even when they are not.

He said Nigerian embassies in North Africa were now overworked, trying to identify the true Nigerians.

His spokesman Mr Femi Adesina quoted him as saying this at the State House Abuja Tuesday while receiving Hon. Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs, who came as Special Envoy of President Paul Kagame.

“I don’t envy our position, as many Blacks claim to be Nigerians, even when they are not,” the president said.

Buhari said rather than dare the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea, with scores of lives lost in the process, illegal migrants should stay back home and find ways to improve their personal economies.

President Buhari said Nigeria had taken it upon herself to bring back thousands of her citizens now stranded in Libya.