About 13,000 Nigerians are currently seeking asylum in Germany.
German Ambassador to Nigeria, Bernhard Schlagheck who made the disclosure said the reasons rangers from insecurity arising from Boko Haram insurgency to political prosecutions in Nigeria.
Ambassador Schlagheck however hinted that his country was not convinced that there is political persecution in Nigeria at the moment.
He said that the German government was adopting legal measures as required by the international laws and conventions to ascertain the veracity of the claims.
Schlagheck made the revelations on Wednesday in Abuja when the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora led by its chairman, Hon. Rita Orji visited the German embassy on oversight functions essentially predicated on the recently assented Diaspora Commission Bond bill by the Presidency.
“There are 13,000 asylum applications in Germany. It is a serious examination. We are legally required to know if the person (applying) has been prosecuted for political reasons. “Think of Nigeria in the way you want but there is no political prosecution here. The likelihood that most of these absurd applications are rejected is almost 90 to 99 percent.”
The Ambassador also bemoaned a situation where many Nigerian women cross over to the country only to engage in prostitution. (Vanguard)
