Nigerian govt releases seven Polish citizens arrested during hardship protests
Six Polish students and a lecturer from the Warsaw University who were detained in Nigeria during the hardship protests have been released.
The Polish foreign ministry disclosed on Wednesday adding that the released persons are in good health and will be returning to their home country this week. The seven were held at a hotel in Kano while Warsaw was actively seeking their release.
Spokesman of the ministry, Pawel Wronski, said the seven Polish citizens have had their passports, laptops, and belongings returned, and were staying at the university campus in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, waiting for their trip back home.
“Our students were at the wrong time at the wrong place,” Wronski said, urging people to be cautious when traveling to distant locations.
He added the ministry posts warnings and advice to travelers on its website, including a warning about the Nigerian state of Kano, where it described the political situation as being “quite complicated”.
Officials in Poland, which has frosty relations with Russia, said that was unlikely and that the whole situation was a misunderstanding.
