The Civil Liberties Organisation has raised alarm that 300 Nigerian businessmen and women who are stranded in the Chinese business capital, Guangzhou, are facing starvation.

The human rights group said the citizens complained that they no longer had money to pay for their hotel accommodation and feeding.

The stranded Nigerians are among the over 2,000 individuals awaiting evacuation from foreign countries.

The Federal Government said it was working to set up isolation centres where they would be quarantined on arrival.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, GEOFFREY ONYEAMA, had also said Abuja and Lagos hotels declined the request to lodge the returning Nigerians.

But the Executive Director of the CLO, IBUCHUKWU EZIKE, in a statement said his office had been inundated with calls and appealed to the President to have compassion on them and their families.

The Executive Chairman, Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate, NELSON EKUJUMI supports the call by the CLO.