Re: Stranded Nigerians in UAE
It might not seem obvious, but there are millions of ‘stranded’ Nigerians within Nigeria’s borders. And so far, if there have been efforts towards the amelioration of their plight, the reward is negligible. I read your extensive coverage of the issue with a biased mind. Biased mind in the sense that I had pronounced Nigerians […]
It might not seem obvious, but there are millions of ‘stranded’ Nigerians within Nigeria’s borders. And so far, if there have been efforts towards the amelioration of their plight, the reward is negligible.
I read your extensive coverage of the issue with a biased mind. Biased mind in the sense that I had pronounced Nigerians guilty even before I read the whole story.
Nigerians are on the average lawless. They are lawless within Nigeria and insist on being lawless wherever they find themselves. One can imagine the chagrin of near-aristocratic Arabs in UAE, suddenly finding their streets dominated by machete-wielding savages. And those savages were identified as Nigerians.
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If it is not all Arabs who read international news, those running the affairs of their governments read about Nigerians being on death row for drugs-peddling and other crimes punishable by death in many countries around the globe.
Nigeria is badly managed. But the real tragedy is: there are millions of Nigerians who will never agree to be managed in a civilised manner.
Abdullahi Musa writes from Kano