The Federal Government has vowed to arrest and prosecute the airline travel agents who cancelled the return tickets of 230 Nigerian football fans stranded after the 2018 World Cup Tournament in Russia.
The Nigerian Ambassador to Russia, Prof. Steve Ugba, said this in an online video statement made available by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Tope Elias-Fatile, in Abuja on Sunday.
Ugba made government’s position known while addressing the stranded Nigerians in Moscow, Russia before their departure to Nigeria.
NAN reports that over 150 stranded Nigerian football fans besieged the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow on July 12 for assistance at the end of the 2018 World Cup tournament.
The fans had alleged that their return tickets were cancelled abruptly by airline agents, resulting to their being stranded in Russia without any hope of returning to Nigeria.
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