Nigerian prisoners languishing in Togo Prisons, Mr. Franklin Ezeona, President Global Society for Anti-Corruption (GSAC) has written to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama on the unbearable condition of Nigerians in Togo Prisons.

In the letter, Ezeona called for the extradition of the Nigerian prisoners in accordance with Section 1 subsection 1 of the Extradition Act, which emanated from the extradition treaty signed by Ghana, Benin, Togo, and Nigeria in October 1984.

According to him, the representative of the Nigerian prisoners in Togo, Mr. Ben Okolie, in an emotion-laden voice complained that the Nigerian Ambassador to Togo, His Excellency, Joseph Olusola Iji visited the inmates on April 7, 2019.

The visit, he claimed, fuelled more disappointment and hopelessness among the prisoners.

Sunday Sun gathered that Okolie in his outcry alleged that the ambassador could not be trusted, insisting that he has done nothing to save them from their deplorable conditions in prisons.

Okolie, revealing what transpired between the prisoners and the Ambassador on the day of his visit, stated that the Ambassador was defending the authorities of Togo Prisons and the government, claiming that the Togolese government was very lenient with them more than prisoners from other countries.

“When they complained about their sleeping conditions and lack of medical attention, he said that they should not expect to sleep well since they are prisoners.

“They gave an instance where a Togolese was convicted of same offence but was sentenced to five years while Nigerians were given 10 years. The Togolese served three years and was released while his Nigerian counterpart is still serving his 10-year jail term. They complained to him about Nigerian prisoners in Togo lying critically ill in the hospital and Nigerians are contributing money for their treatment but the Ambassador said nothing about it than telling them he brought Paracetamol to them.

“One of the women gave birth in prison but the Ambassador did not show any concern whatsoever to her plight or any of other Nigerian women prisoners.

“In this regard they are begging President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian government to come to their rescue as they are dying one after the other in prison.

GSAC, in the letter dated Friday, March 15, 2019, to President Buhari and copied the Attorney General, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassador of Nigeria to Togo, revealed that it was in possession of video recordings and pictures of over 200 Nigerians jam-packed in a room and forced to sleep on the floor. “The actions of the Togolese government are against the provision of United Nations Universal Declarations of Human Rights, the group said.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/04/come-to-our-rescue-nigerians-in-togo.html

Stop giving the impression that Togo hates Nigeria. Don't do crime, you won't hear. Don't we have other Nigerians in Togo living decent lives without being arrested?

Do the crime, serve d time..... dont disturb d already overburdened foreign affairs minister.

Abi una call am before peddling crime in ur host country?

I have absolute no comment

So it has gotten to this...even ordinary togo ....we don really suffer

we are still looking for their name's

Since igbos start traveling to other East and West Africa countries, Nigeria relationship with these countries start getting sour.

Yorubas have been living peacefully with other west Africans for centuries until Ibos start going to those countries with their criminal tendencies

Fact is the fact

Togo prison kwa. asin ordinary Togo kwa... who dash them mind to arrest and imprison a Nigerian

Daewang:



[s]Nigeria's relationship with Saudi Arabia was solid before afonjas started traveling to Saudi Arabia with their criminal tendencies. Already more than 23 of your afonja siblings are waiting to be executed by beheading in Saudi Arabia for different offences. Kudirat Afolabi was executed for drug trafficking two weeks ago[/s].

The same way Asians didn’t know there are different types in Nigeria until Ibos start exporting their violent tendencies and crimes into Asia.

There is no known crime in this world known to mankind that Ibos are not into

hisexcellency34:
Stop giving the impression that Togo hates Nigeria. Don't do crime, you won't hear. Don't we have other Nigerians in Togo living decent lives without being arrested?

The prisoners did not complain of wrongful arrest buy rather the awful prison conditions.

The ambassador probably just sees them as prisoners and nothing more. In his mind," Who send you go steal? We don't need your type in Nigeria". To some extent I don't blame him. Also, their lot won't be better here

However, what is the best practice in regards to this? That's my take.

nwanyionitsha:
Ok.

That is a British that never step foot into Nigeria.

We are talking about you criminals that travel out with nigeria passports for the singular aim of going to commit crime and come back home to spend such blood money in your red mud villages

Prison conditions arent much better in Nigeria. At least you'll get to suffer in your country. Do Nigerians prefer countries to imprison convicts or just deport them like Ghana? This thread would have been filled with tears if it were the latter.

nwanyionitsha:
Ok

You keep displaying Saudi Arabia when the world is now in a way to distinguish and stereotype Ibos as criminals all over the world

Are we the one telling Europeans, Asians and even Africans that igbos are criminals ?

Read a whole article dedicated to igbo crime culture

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thecable.ng/igbo-crime-culture/amp

Enjoy the whole essence of igbos criminality in one single article

In the sweltering heat of a serial lynching and killing of Igbo citizens in Asia in 2013, I wrote an article entitled, ‘The Igbo fallacy’. In it, I appealed to the Igbo to de-emphasise the culture of profligacy, decadent opulence, debauchery and vanity which fuels the pursuit of crime by their own.

I am compelled to revivify the article here, but with a few adjustments. I say it again; the Igbo take the inglorious front row in certain crimes – drug peddling, armed robbery and kidnapping – at home and abroad.

In August 2016, an Igbo drug dealer was guillotined in Indonesia. But his funeral in Anambra was a shin-dig of celebrations. He was even described as a “hero” by his kinsmen.

Once again, an Igbo kidnapping lord, who unleashed barbarity and savagery on many Nigerians, has steadied attention on the “special” crime proclivities of the ethnic group. I will not dwell on this; I will zero in on Igbo criminality abroad, and take a slight detour home.

As a matter of fact, a good number of Igbo youth in Asia are into crime. It was reported sometime in the year that the India police said all Nigerians – Igbo, of course – in their country were drug dealers. Although, this is questionable, it cannot be entirely repudiated.

Arguably, the reason for Igbo sojourning – to even the remotest of places in the world – has been attributed to their much vaunted entrepreneurial spirit. The truth is that this claim is enclosed in heavy, meaty layers of fallacy like the entrails of burger.

Inasmuch as the “entrepreneurial sojourning” thread cannot be utterly pooh-poohed, it is judicious to explore other reasons why the Igbo are peripatetic. First, in Igbo ethology, it is a cringing evil for a native, man or woman, to commit a “stigmatised” crime (Alu) such as armed robbery, drug-dealing, etc at home. This is not an obviation of abhorrent crimes committed at home by some unabashed Igbo criminals. The truth is, the “home” Igbo criminals are a hopeless and shameless horde whose self esteem and sense of shame are terribly at their nadir, and as a result purvey crimes at home. Inter alia, for any stigmatised crime committed at home (Igbo land) there is a stern reprimand implicit in the cleansing of the crime. The sacerdotal process of cleansing the land of a crime or an abomination is called “Ikpu Alu”. However, “Ikpu Alu” (cleansing of abominations) does not extend to crimes committed by Igbo sons and daughters in places outside the native dome. It is therefore not surprising if some Igbo persons commit heinous crimes in obverse places, and come back home to take chieftaincy titles. As a matter of fact, in some morally weak Igbo communities it is a brave thing to traffic in drugs abroad. Drug barons are gleefully celebrated as Ndi kara Obi (lion-hearted people). Such is the pantomime of the Igbo and crimes.

It is therefore indubitable to posit that an unenviable number of Igbo persons with innate criminal manuals travel outside the Igbo enclave to pursue crimes. This confutes the general idea that the sojourning of the Igbo is driven solely by entrepreneurial inclinations and motives. To a large extent, the sojourning of some Igbo is driven by a morbid aim of shielding their evil trades from the peering eyes of their kinsmen. Their names are protected as long as they do not traffic in crimes at home. The important thing is to be successful in crimes abroad; successful enough to build vulgar mansions at home and throw lazy cash about.

To animate my argument further, what is the entrepreneurial inclination or motive of the Igbo in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, South Africa, and other countries peddling drugs? Is the entrepreneurial spirit of the Igbo only awakened abroad? Why should the Igbo entrepreneurial spirit find its host cozily and lopsidedly outside Igbo land? Is there a marriage between Igbo criminality across the world and Igbo entrepreneurial genome? These are questions that defeat the long, tired argument of Igbo entrepreneurial “peripatetism.”

The fact is the “entrepreneurial” beat-up logic and reason for Igbo sojourning is a bored excuse.

Analogously, Igbo sojourning atavism is also effectuated by pride, ego and vanity. A typical Igbo person will want to prove he is successful in anyway. It is wickedly mortifying to be seen as struggling in Igbo land. This underscores the reason many Igbo persons smuggle themselves out of Nigeria, and because it is thought that any person in Obodo Oyibo (white man’s country) or even anywhere outside Igbo land is “doing well”. Those Igbo persons who are “cursed” to be in Igbo land are seen as struggling and as such do not deserve the courtesy of admiration and respect. It is a proud thing for an Igbo father to say, “All my children are in the abroad”; even though “the abroad” is Gabon. Such a father courts the respect, envy and admiration of other fathers in Igbo land. This is the awful linkage between Igbo sojourning and base vanity.

In all, there are Igbo persons in the scrawny good number whose sojourn in foreign countries is not tainted by any evil intent or base vanity, but it is a bleeding fact that the singular Igbo entrepreneurial logic for sojourning is one big smorgasbord of fallacy.

grandstar:

However, what is the best practice in regards to this? That's my take.

It depends on Togo and prisoners. Both countries have to agree on transfer. The FG sometimes takes interest like with drug peddlers in Asia. Crimes like capital offenses wont apply. Lol Nigeria should work towards regonal prisoner transfer agreement among member states.

Im sure alot these countries would gladly get rid of Nigerians to save money. The UK is going to the extent of building new prison wing in Kirikiri.

Front page: Lalasticlala

If they're guilty of the crimes they're serving time for, they should do the time and stop disturbing the FG.

These ÀFÔÑJAŚ migrated to Togo to continue with their skull minning trade.

Oduduwa's great grand children giving NIGERIANS bad name..

Awon usual suspect, wetin una go find for Togo prison?

I know this thread will go South, these ones are funny sha, government that hasn't taken care of law abiding citizens at home, is it foreign criminals that they will think about......

I h8 Buhari
Check ma signature 4 d rest

Togo?? Ordinary Togo
When baba return from tours make lai Mohammed tell am

A man that swallows a whole coconut must have great confidence in his anus.

Good for Una, everytime Una go dey fall Naija hand abroad.

Even when Nigerian police and his whoremonger dey inside Togo prison.

How did you guys end up in Togo's prison in the first place?

Una go die there!

loopman:



The same way Asians didn’t know there are different types in Nigeria until Ibos start exporting their violent tendencies and crimes into Asia.

There is no known crime in this world known to mankind that Ibos are not into

No be quarrel na.
Kindly tell your leaders to grant Igbos Biafra.
At least, that will save Nigeria the embarrassment.
Otele!

Wayo things, Fraud gone South.
Awon Developers. it's okay

This Geofrey Onyeoma seems to be more useless than useless i swear. Even Abike as an ordinary adviser is more concerned about Nigerians in diaspora more than the mumu minister. He's one of the sole reason the innoccent woman was executed in Saudi Arabia recently. He won't say anything now again untill they all die in prison..

And by the way, what's with our people too? Why are you guys everywhere? I mean Togo prison of all prisons in the world. I'm ashamed.