Some returnee female Nigerian students from war-torn Sudan have alleged that they were sexually harassed while trying to find their way back home from war-torn Sudan.
The female students, who did not want their names in print, narrated their ordeals on arrival in Nigeria on Wednesday with Air Peace plane and Nigerian Air Force transport planes.
They also said that they were so broke to the extent of picking things from shops and running away.
They further said that some of them had no choice than to drop their luggage behind in order to enter the aircraft back to Nigeria.
Speaking to journalists on their arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, one of the female students, said they went through harrowing experiences by having to sleep in the open.
According to her; “We spent all the money we had. We were so hungry and thirsty. They were harassing us sexually. There was no food, no water to drink.
“It got to a point we picked things from shops and ran away. It was not funny. The experience of Nigerians while at the border between Sudan and Egypt was really terrible and excruciating,” she stressed.
Also speaking, another female student who granted the BBC Hausa Service an interview said that their legs were swollen due to long hours of stay in the buses.
Similarly, a male student said the experience they went through was terrible they had to pay money before they were allowed to urinate.
He prayed that the war would end soon to enable him go back to Sudan to complete his remaining one semester to round off his academic programme.
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