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Nigeria Embassy in Germany Corruptly Collects €500 on Each Deportee

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 each affected 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 language or accent 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 those the embassy officers have identified as Nigerians may not
come from other African countries?

Even when somebody identifies himself 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 conclude that the person is 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 does the Nigerian
embassy engage in such act? 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 to issue travelling certificate.”
So, it means that the deportation of Nigerians now has become another money
spinning business? Could this be one of the reasons Nigerian refugees are
molested, abused and most times killed in foreign lands without the Nigerian
government challenging the dastardly act?

I hope that the monies already collected through this process were properly
documented particularly the monies of those that the embassy did not issue
with their travel 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 investigate the allegations of extortion. Nigeria should
not be enmeshed in this kind of ugly story of not protecting its citizens in
foreign land.

The Honorable Foreign Affairs Minister Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru spoke
well about how he will handle the welfare of Nigerians in foreign countries last
week. Sir, I wish to draw your attention to this uncivilized behavior of the
Nigerian embassy officials 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. Nigerian or African
people are poor people that must obey their neo-colonial 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 be in Abuja had to recall him for this patriotic
attitude of standing by 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 had to be examined thoroughly and he 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 officials were sent from Nigeria to Austria
to sign the deportation of about two thousand Nigerians whom 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 [email protected]  
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  1. This is a shame

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