According to the chairman of the House of Reps committee on
Diaspora, Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, a 72 year old Nigerian woman, identified as
Fausat Aosede is being held in Brazilian over drug related offenses.
Hon Dabiri-Erewa traveled to Brazil with some members of her
committee on a fact finding mission after the woman's plight and that of at
least 456 other Nigerians, including 14 women, serving various jail terms over
drug offenses, were brought to her attention by an NGO known as 'Youths Without
Borders'.
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