Travails of Nigerians at embassy in Spain

The issuance of Nigerian passport is a gory tale which indicates the failure of the Nigerian Embassy in organisational skills. They seem to be incompetent and  unable to organise Nigerian passport for applicants. How many Nigerians reside in Spain? Why is it always hard for us to be organised home and abroad? Are we perpetually […]

The issuance of Nigerian passport is a gory tale which indicates the failure of the Nigerian Embassy in organisational skills. They seem to be incompetent and  unable to organise Nigerian passport for applicants. How many Nigerians reside in Spain? Why is it always hard for us to be organised home and abroad? Are we perpetually cursed to always do things wrongly? I keep asking such questions because there is nothing wrong in Nigerians registering and collecting their passports within at most a week. This is apart from when there is shortage of booklets which is understandable. When people have incidents like loss of passport, the staff make it extremely hard for those that are in need of a new ones, why? Are the Embassy officials there for decoration?

In fairness, some are not doing badly but majority have shown Nigerians they are not capable of representing the people that they are supposed to give all the assistance in the world as Nigerian citizens. Majority of Nigerians are really suffering here. They do not have any hope back home and they just wanted to live freely here but they get frustrated by our own Embassy. There is no day our people won’t cry at Nigeria House just because they have been completely frustrated by the officials at the Embassy

However I’ll also be very fair as we also realise that the activities on some Nigerians are so disgraceful because they engaged in all sorts of things which make a lot of things difficult for the Embassy also of which everyone suffers. This is not supposed to be the case. Let good Nigerians not suffer just because of some few indecent ones. The federal government should please act fast as our people are getting frustrated on a daily basis.

A word is enough for the wise.

Afolabi Oloko is a temporary resident of Spain