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EASO COI Meeting Report Nigeria - Practical Cooperation Meeting

22 Aug 2017

Activities on raising the awareness of migrants: (1) The Missing Steps, a TV mini-series which is going to be broadcast on the national TV of Nigeria, with the support of the government of Switzerland, and Nollywood actors. [...] What we call the internal flight alternative, gives the person the possibility to live in another part of the country, not only in terms of security, but also in terms of the possibility of the person to really live, have a job, and have the possibility to stay. [...] […] It’s not necessary to carry out, in addition to an appraisal of the level of violence present in the territory concerned, a separate assessment of the intensity of the armed confrontations, the level of organisation of the armed forces involved or the duration of the conflict.’ The Nigerian Armed Forces are the fourth largest force in Africa and are supported by 82,000 Paramilitary Forces. [...] In this situation, I would remember that it is important to verify always whether the applicant comes within the scope of the exclusion clauses (Articles 12 and 17 of the Qualification Directive), for example in the case of an asylum seeker who states that he is part of a criminal gang and we think that he is telling the truth. [...] As for the Federal Government, especially in the 1990s but even under the Obasanjo Administration, and even more recently with the Buhari Administration, the initial response to the Niger Delta Avengers in 2016 was one of repression: ‘We are going to crush these militants and wipe them out’, especially as they hurt the daily oil production of the Nigerian Government.
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