By John Mike
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| Olugbenga Ashiru FA Min |
Many Nigerians who participated in that peaceful protest including one Mr Uche Ijere is still languishing in Thai jail because the Nigerian ambassador and his counselor has refused to let the Thai authority free him from jail accusing him that the protesters broke a glass door during the peaceful demonstration and he and others have been in jail since August till date.what a diplomatic wickedness! When undiplomatic people occupy diplomatic positions things like these abounds.
And the reasons for the protest are among other things as follow:
That over 11 Nigerians has died in Thailand this year alone and about 8 of them incremented {buried by burning by fire} which is against our funeral culture; and this is simply because our embassy refused to send an officer to the hospital or place of death to identify such body as a Nigerian.
That Thailand immigration has strongly tightened the conditions or ways Nigerians used to extend their Thai visas. making it nearly impossible for holders of ordinary Nigerian passports to extend their Thai visas and yet our embassy is sitting idle-by watching without any action or motivate parallel retaliations against Thai people living in Nigeria. And that the embassy is charging Nigerians over US$800 for Travel Certificate {T.C} and about US$100 for any kind of one page official identification letter.
That Nigerians in Thailand generously contributed money and gave to the embassy for welfare of Nigerians in Thai prisons and the embassy embezzled the money till date to the continued suffering of those inmates.
That our counsellor is a drunkard and womanizer; seen very often at massage/beer parlours with prostitute and thus messing up Nigeria image here with such life style.
That because of bribe/drug money our embassy is receiving from an evil group, the embassy is supporting and working with this evil group of few Nigerians we call the “The Jerry Group” which is responsible for most evils {money extortions, police harassment/intimidations, passport blacklisting, arrest, torture and imprisonments} that befall many Nigerians in Thailand.
That Nigerians who protested against this misrepresentation by the embassy on that fateful day August 23, 2011 were arrested by the embassy using Thai police, some tortured, some detained without trials till date, and one Mr Uche Ijere has been left languishing in jail since then with the embassy blocking all attempts to grant him bail. And this man has diabetes and heart-problem which he had been on regular check-ups when he was outside but his arrest and detention has deprived him of his medical treatments making him more vulnerable to death caused by this diabetes and heart-case. If he dies in prison, Nigerians in Thailand have vowed to avenge his blood on all the embassy officials mostly the ambassador Mr Suleiman and the counsellor, Mr. Abayomi.
Nigerians are celebrating Christmas and New Year while Mr Uche Ijere is languishing in Jail for standing up against misrepresentation corruption by the embassy; and many who participated in that August 23 demonstration in the embassy who were not yet arrested had their passport blacklisted by Thai immigrations at the order of the ambassador and the counsellor.
Look at our country Nigeria, corruption in home government at all levels, insecurity everywhere in the land, and hardship. And now there has been an unchecked trend of exporting of these evils to Nigerian missions abroad mostly to the mission in Thailand. When I consider all these evils and the silence of our government back home on these issues, I wonder if Goodluck is truly a goodluck to Nigerians including Nigerians in Thailand.
If nothing is done and done urgently to correct these evils, I am foreseeing and predicting an Arab Spring-kind of revolution in Nigeria come year 2012.
We are one Nigeria they say. Ambassador Suleiman is Hausa and counsellor Abayomi is Yoruba and the man in jail Uche Ijere is Igbo. If he is Hausa or Yoruba, I am sure he would not be in jail till now for protesting in embassy or for a glass door been broken during the demonstration which he was never the one who broke the glass. He was rather the one who was protecting the ambassador so that the angry members of the protesters will not insult or assault him. Yet all he got in defence of our ambassador was this long detention.
It is worthy to note that this ambassador Suleiman asked for an apology letter from Nigerians who participated on that demonstration as a condition for freeing Mr. Ijere and others, the letter was written and sent to him and yet he is still holding these people in jail for reason best known to him or maybe because they are not Hausa people. We are one Nigeria – that is what they say but is that what they act? Action speaks louder than voice we all know.
Happy New Year in jail Mr Ijere! Happy New Year in an air-conditioned house ambassador Suleiman and counselor Abayomi! As we all celebrate the New Year, may the Almighty God reward Mr Ijere, ambassador Suleimen, and counselor Abayomi accordingly in Jesus Name Amen.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL PATRIOTIC NIGERIANS.
ALSO SEE:
Nigeria Embassy Thailand: The truth of the crisis
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