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Nigeria Embassy In Germany Corruptly Collects €500 On
Each Deported Nigerian:Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru Take Note
By Uzoma Ahamefule Mon Aug 15,2011
Olugbenga Ashiru
This news from Germany is really disturbing. Why is it that our
leaders make us laughing objects before the international
community and they will turn around to accuse us the poor and
voiceless masses? This accusation from “The Voice Baden
Württemberg” in Germany that most Nigerian refugees are deported
without proper identification or procedure is a severe one
especially the indictment that the Nigerian Embassy officials
have been
taking €500 to facilitate the
deportation of a Nigerian refugee. According to “The Voice Baden
Württemberg” for the lucrative deportation business to flourish
the Nigerian officials can
identify their victims in their wisdom with special reference to
their facial marks or looks
that could be attributed to Nigerians. Furthermore, the
embassy’s machine making money (the refugees)
could as well be identified based on their languages or accents
according to this known source. When did language
speaking or facial marks etc. become
a standard yardstick of knowing where one comes from? If the
same Nigerians go to the embassy for help as Nigerians without
proper identity like passport, driver’s license or birth
certificate etc. will the embassy recognize them as Nigerians?
If the answer is no, why then
issue documents
to deport people to Nigeria even when the
host authorities have not been able to prove beyond reasonable
doubt that they are Nigerians? Who told you that those people
that may have claimed to be Nigerians or the almighty embassy
officers have identified as Nigerians may not come from other
African countries? Even when somebody identifies him-
or herself under this
circumstance as a Nigerian or speaks any of the Nigerian
languages it still does not make that person a Nigerian without
any document to back it up. Can the Nigerian government
take anybody from Western Europe with white skin to
the German Embassy in Nigeria without proper identification and
they entertain that person as a German and give the Nigerian
authority the needed signatory to deport the person to Germany?
No European country will accept such uncivilized way of doing
things. But why is my country doing it? And painfully it
is not that they do not know that it
is wrong. Please tell me why? Why do
Nigerian officials in Germany or Austria go to interview asylum
seekers outside the official buildings of the embassies?
According to a fellow comrade Mr Rex Osa who is a coordinator
of “The Voice Baden
Württemberg” (Germany) “For each candidate interviewed
the Nigerian embassy gets €250 and
another €250 for issued travelling certificate.” So, it means
that the deportation of Nigerians now has become another money
making business? Could this be one of the reasons Nigerian
refugees are molested, abused and most times killed in foreign
lands without the federal government of Nigeria through their
ambassadors wanting a redress as they ought to.
I hope that the monies already collected through this process
were properly documented particularly the monies of those that
the embassy did not issue their travelling documents. Because
the identification of a problem is
the first step towards solving it, therefore, as a matter of
urgency, I appeal to the Nigerian government to look into this
neo colonialism of €500 as mentioned above and abolish it if it
is official because it has induced many abracadabra interviews
and deportations. Nigeria is supposed to be too big and greatly
sophisticated for this kind of stories, as a matter of fact our
dignity and value should be considered before any action is
taken.
The new honorable Foreign Affairs Minister Ambassador Olugbenga
Ashiru spoke well about how he will handle the welfare of
Nigerians in foreign countries last week, consequently honorable
Minister Sir, your attention has been drawn to this
uncivilized behavior of the Nigerian
embassy in Germany according to “The Voice Baden Württemberg”.
Please investigate the allegation and also save the people from
the calamity that is about to happen to them now.
According to the source from Germany the Nigerian Embassy will
be doing another round of identification of Nigerians from 15-19
August 2011 in Karlsruhe with the aim of issuing their
deportation papers and I am scared that the same thing will be
extended to Austria sooner than later as usual.
Nigeria is the only government that collects this kind of money
to facilitate the pains of her citizens amongst the whole
countries of the world. What a shame! And African ambassadors
are the only ambassadors that authorize or that go secretly
outside the official buildings of their embassies with the
primary aim to conduct how their citizens should be humiliated
back to their respective countries. No American or European
country would do that. Do you blame Nigerian ambassadors or
their African counterparts? Nigerian or African people are poor
people that must obey their neocolonial masters and must follow
them without questioning or else what is happening to Mugabe in
Zimbabwe will happen to them, or else what happened to
Ambassador Jerry Ugokwe will happen to them.
Jerry Ugokwe was the Ambassador to Austria who stood firmly on
the side of the people, but the power that may be from Abuja had
to recall him for this patriotic attitude of standing for the
masses and on the truth. He was the Ambassador that never signed
deportation papers without knowing why because each file that
was brought to him he had examined thoroughly and had asked many
questions that had to be answered before he could sign, and of
course the authorities involved were never ready for such
change. Under the then Foreign Affair Minister Ojo Maduekwe
three wise men were sent from Nigeria to Austria to sign the
deportation of about two thousand Nigerians which Jerry Ugokwe
never signed because there was no justification for him to do
that. This can only happen in a country like Nigeria. Ugokwe,
wherever you are God will continue to bless you. You shall never
lack!
I hope that this era of putting Nigerian masses in sorrow and
agony by our ambassadors in foreign countries just to satisfy
Aso Rock is over because President Goodluck Jonathan is not a
desperate president. Therefore, I pray that our honorable
Foreign Affairs Minister Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru will have
mercy on us the poor and heed the cry of these Nigerians or some
people from other African countries that may be identified as
Nigerians in Germany and intervene urgently before this charade
in the name of the so-called interview takes place in Karlsruhe
between August 15th and 19th 2011.
Furthermore, the idea of collecting €500 or €250 as the case may
be and conducting any official work outside the building of
Nigerian embassies under any guise should stop with immediate
effect.
Please for details on this topic contact:
The Voice Baden Württemberg:
http://www.thevoiceforum.org/node/2207:
Tel.: +4917627873832
Uzoma Ahamefule writes from Vienna, Austria
uzomaah@yahoo.com
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