Hotel owners in Lagos state have given reasons why they would not receive Nigerian evacuees in their hotels.

According to them, instead of the federal government agency in-charge of the evacuees dealing with hotel owners directly, they sublet the contract to middle men who have now seen it as an opportunity to make quick money.

For instance, they said while federal government has budgeted N30.000 per night for each returnee,the middle men are offering hotels N10.000 and breakfast per returnee, adding that only the lowest hotels have accepted the offer because they are not having customers and also lack standard facilities. Speaking further, they said that even though the contractors don’t have any experience in hotel management, they insist that the duty of hotel owners would be limited to only the provision of bed and breakfast, while they (contractors ) would provide every other services required in the hotels.

They also said that the terms of agreement that was sent to them was not favourable. Some of the terms they said include that they (middle men)would bring their own beddings-bed sheet and pillow case, that they would prefer to come with their own house keepers to attend to the evacuees and their needs instead of the hotels` house attendants, that they would buy gas or diesel for the hotel generators to ensure continuous power supply.

They said that all the terms were mere ploy to defraud federal government and suffer the evacuees because the house attendants they would bring would not be professionals, adding that they would also go and buy substandard bed sheets and pillow cases which is not 100 per cent cotton in other to make more money from government. They also wonders if hotels should provide only breakfast for evacuees, where would their lunch and supper come from?

They called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Economic Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), to investigate this agency that is given the responsibility to take care of the Nigerian returnees and make sure that they are comfortable. According to them, the agency is rubbishing the good intentions of the federal government. The hotel owners said that federal government should try to be dealing with them directly in cases like this, instead of going through middle men.

The EFCC need to investigate what happened to the huge amount of money that was set out for this humanitarian project because even a lot of the returnees are the ones providing some of the money. They appealed to EFCC to go and see where the returnees are being lodged to see if the hotels justify the amount given to them by government’

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