Sudan Crisis: Onyema At Rescue of Countrymen As UK Troops Move to Rescue Stranded Britons

The CEO of Air Peace, Allen Ifechukwu Onyema has again, offered to evacuate Nigerians stranded in Sudan.

Onyema made the move following a series of distress and save-our-soul calls from Nigerians in the diaspora as the crisis ravaging Sudan escalates.

Reportedly a large number of Nigerians studying in Suda are mostly Hausa Children from the north and a few Yorubas which Netizens have gone a long way in describing the gesture of Air Peace Boss as significantly thoughtful in a country faced with continuous ethnic jingoism.

According to a Human Rights Activist, Comrade Levite Akpan, the Air Peace Boss, Onyema is voluntarily using his own money and investment to help his Nigerian people without the assistance of the Buhari government you voted for. Mr. Alex doesn’t select Hausa or Yoruba people just the way selfish politicians deprived another tribe of voting their choice because his her is Igbo.

Recall that Allen Onyema did it in South Africa and now is doing it again in Sudan for the love of his country without discrimination.

In a related development, a team of British troops has flown into a port town in the East of Sudan on a reconnaissance mission as the United Kingdom government weighs available options to evacuate British nationals stranded in the crisis-hit country, most prominently its capital, Khartoum.

The soldiers landed at Port Sudan, on the Red Sea on Monday, according to a Daily Mail report.
This, however, does not mean a rescue is imminent.
A British warship, the HMS Lancaster, is also in the region and could be used to help with rescue missions, according to Whitehall sources.

The Royal Air Force is considering a “viable option” of flying in from Cyprus to a Sudanese airfield just outside the capital — a route used over the weekend to rescue diplomats stuck in the war-torn country.

This is due to the 500-mile long and arduous journey from Khartoum to Port Sudan, Daily Mail reports.
Any decision, however, to order new evacuations will largely depend on the government’s willingness to take risks.

According to reports, there are roughly 4,000 British passport holders in Sudan.

Another option being considered is that the government could ask allies to help take in its citizens.

The armed forces minister, James Heappey, said the military had various alternatives to present to the prime minister as pressure mounts on the government to help thousands of British nationals trapped in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, according to Daily Mail.

British forces extracted all British diplomats and their families from the city during a weekend raid.

“But of course, the job isn’t done,” Mr. Heappey said.

“Work is underway in this building and has been all weekend and all of the back end of last week to give the prime minister and Cobra [the emergency committee meeting of top ministers and officials] options for what else could be done to support the wider community of British nationals in Sudan.

“Those options are being developed at pace.

“The prime minister will be given the option to take any of the options that we present him with as and when they arise and that’s been the rhythm of things all weekend long,” he added.