Streets of Brussels, Belgium The Government of Belgium has revealed that migrants from Nigeria constitute the highest number of people living and sleeping on the streets of the country under extremely cold weather conditions.
This was unveiled by the Director General, Office of Foreigners, Belgium, Mr. Freddy Roosemont while speaking to Journalists in Abuja, the Federal Capital City of Nigeria, on Saturday.
Roosemont also disclosed that Nigerians living in the country fill the highest percentage of prostitutes in Belgium. He stated that, regrettably, they do this for survival.
Begging the journalists to assist in informing Nigerian youths willing to seek greener pastures in the European countries that it is not more as it has been in the past, Roosemont said the majority of Nigerians living in Belgium sleep on the street under the extremely cold weather condition with the temperature running about minus 7, minus 5, and zero degree Celsius.
He stated that the majority of the migrants had applied for asylum but the country, like every other European country, has changed its Asylum policies because of the global economic meltdown.
Roosemont further revealed that hungry traffickers deceived the youths raising their hopes that European countries are still as fertile as in the past.
Roosemont advised prospective irregular migrants to Europe to bury their dream as there is no more golden fleece in Europe, adding, “Those dreams are fake, they are not realistic at all.
He said it is very hard to survive in Belgium and other European countries unless you have a job, and mostly no job pays better than university jobs.
Roosemont said: “Their humanity will be taken away from them and they will end up in there and that’s why you have to inform your public, the people of Nigeria, the youth of Nigeria that things like that are still going on in Europe and Belgium”.
“It’s not easy to survive in Europe without a decent job and without sort of being an employee or employed by a university. The dream is fake”.
“So, at the moment, we have to limit the reception of asylum seekers only to people who are vulnerable and that means families, women with children. No man alone, not in that group.
“So, for the moment, there are lots of these asylum seekers living in Brussels on the street, and I can assure you the temperature in Brussels is not what it is here in Abuja. It got to minus seven, minus five. Now it’s around zero Celsius.
“So it’s not easy to survive in Brussels without help, without assistance.
“We are by law obliged to give that assistance but we simply can’t do it because places are filled up or simply filled up. It’s a very painful situation for Belgium, but it’s like that if you look at the newspapers, if you look at the journals, if you walk in the streets in Brussels, you’re going to see everywhere, people sleeping on the streets and people trying to survive without any help”.
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Published 2/4/2024 10:34:29 AM