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When diplomatic wickedness is growing unchecked in any land, the
masses suffer untold harms! This is exactly what Nigerians living in
Thailand are suffering from in the hands of our so-called ambassador
Suleiman and counselor Abayomi since August 23, 2011 when Nigerians
in Thailand protested against their high handedness. And the silence of
our home government on this issue has continued to worsen the issue as
it encourages the embassy to continue to hold Nigerians like Mr Uche
Ijere in Thai jail.
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
abound. And the reasons for the protest among other things are as follow:
1. That over 11 Nigerians have died in Thailand this year alone and
about 8 of them cremated 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. That our counselor is a drunkard and womanizer… seen very often at
massage/beer parlors with prostitute and thus messing up Nigeria image
here with such life style.
5. 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.
6. That Nigerians who protested against these 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 have 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 counselor 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 counselor.
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 an Hausa man
and counselor Abayomi is a Yoruba man and the man in jail Uche Ijere is
an Igbo man. If he is an Hausa or Yoruba man, I am sure he would not be
in jail till now for protesting in embassy or for a glass door broken during
the demonstration which he was never the one who did it. 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 defense of
our ambassador was this long detention without trial.
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 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 air-conditioned
house ambassador Suleiman and counselor Abayomi. As we all
celebrate the New Year, may the Almighty God {the rewarder of all}
reward Mr Ijere, ambassador Suleimen, and counselor Abayomi
accordingly in Jesus Name Amen.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL PATRIOTIC NIGERIANS
Unresolved crisis between Nigerian embassy and
Nigerians in Thailand
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By Mike John
Wednesday, December 28, 2011