No Nigerian Was Attacked By Tnc In Libya , Says Minister- He Must Be Sacked!


http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/18117-no-nigerian-was-attacked-by-tnc-in-libya-says-minister.html

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Olugbenga Ashiru yesterday said no Nigerian has been attacked or harassed by the forces loyal to the Transitional National Council (TNC) in Libya .




If a serving minister can say this despite what we have seen on CNN. Then he must be sacked!

Gone were the days when diplomatic lies were the order of the day. Now it is a digital world, aleadre does not respect the lives of the citizen should not
be allowed to feed fat on the tax payer's money.

HE MUST BE SACKED!!!

Your comment on this is really important!
NLders must join in this Hounorable call

I think the Nigerian embassy needs to be really questioned by the senate,they left before other Nigerians ,with kind of people are those ones

olas2u:

I think the Nigerian embassy needs to be really questioned by the senate,they left before other Nigerians ,with kind of people are those ones

Thank you o, my brother, i wonder what kind of governance we are running in our country?
Action needs to be taken ASAP!

@ poster.
What did you watch on CNN? Did you see Nigerian being attacked or killed?
Those you watch on CNN where they not released?
Do you have any evidence of a Nigerian being attacked again?
Show it, so that minister can be sacked, otherwise just keep quiet.

Richtalk:

@ poster.
What did you watch on CNN? Did you see Nigerian being attacked or killed?
Those you watch on CNN where they not released?
Do you have any evidence of  a Nigerian being attacked again?
Show it, so that minister can be sacked, otherwise just keep quiet.

Please watch this video below then go on that thread to see more from BBC, CNN, NPR, Al-Jazeera, Nigerian Punch, Nigeria independent, personal Youtube videos, cries for help.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-749081.0.html

After you've done that, please come back here and explain to us why CNN and Nigerians on Nairaland seem to know more about the unfortunate fate of Nigerians in a foreign country than the Minisry of Foreign Affairs.

I dey wait.

donspony:


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Click link if video is not showing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDRbdXp0Du4

See this one too; you think they are still alive considering all the reports we have about these people dragging dark skinned Africans out of hospitals to execute them?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUlOWduAbIo&feature=player_embedded#

Sky news report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjepDWl9IIc


Video of Nigerians pleading for their lives.

http://libyancivilwar..com/2011/07/african-mercenaries.html

Pay close attention to report from @8:00 on this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbJp6fiAu8&feature=player_embedded#!

The Minister is just playing the ostrich as usual.

Oh dear.

Smh.

This government is fast outpacing anything that went before.

The minister needs to be queried. Has he gone to Libya to verify for himself. Does he have any intelligence on ground in Libya to prove that Nigerians and indeed other Black African are not being (have not been) lynched.

I thought the era of the former Attorney General of FGN is gone. This is a time for intelligence not hoarse statements.

Shows the type of Ministers GEJ has drafted to transform Nigeria.

I wonder why Nigerians are complaining, y'all got up and voted incompetent monkeys into government and stand back to complain - what is Obanikoro doing in Ghana other than chasing skirts in the university

Black people smh

thats a nigerian minister for you

very sad statement.

Honestly it is high time we made them accountable for their words and actions
These videos are pathetic.

Cry my beloved country

Welcome to Nigeria folks, i cant believe a nigerian minister in his right mind wld come up with this idea, isnt this the real reason nigeria is an will always be a laughing to stock? may God destroy this minister and his family

Seriously why are people just speaking out of turn and for no reason these days as if they're on crack.

Was the minister forced to make that statement or has he never heard the phrase silence is golden? Meaning there are situations where you keep your mouth shut.

Many Nigerians were murdered in cold blood by those alqead linked terrorist rats from benghazi.
the minister is an i-diot.

Nigeria is a shame! These people left Nigeria because their Govt neglected them and rather than make some effort to make up for it, the govt makes some weasel comments in the face of pathetic Libyan rebel denials. Why was GJ so quick and unconditional in supporting the rebels. If Nigeria has any balls we would demand 20 million dollers for any Nigerian killed there and take Libya to the UN for ethnic or racial cleansing, shame on Nigeria, as usual.

What do you expect Nigerians?

The incompetent Minister is only walking in the shadows of his equally incompetent President who absolved a terrorist group of any wrong doing even after they claimed responsibility for bombing the capital city.

Did someone just ask if he did his investigation? Yes he did. IN ONE DAY! like the "RETARDEEN" of a President who finished his investigation on the Abuja bombing in one day and came to run his mouth that Mend is not responsible.

Partially informed Minister

How do you expect him to be well informed when all his advisers are busy laundering the ministry money?

Yeye people

Amb. Olugbenga Ashiru why am i not surprised

What else can you expect from a yoruba, a people that live in denial. They claim that they're politically "sophisticated", they hate money and don't like looting and the funniest part of their claim is that they're the "progressives". Just can't help but admire our "friends" of SW extraction,,,seem like they make nigeria go round .

Obviously, the speaker minister does not watch the news. Too busy eatin amala and ewedu soup. Du.mb 4ck.

The FG announced at the hieght of the revolution they were airlifting Nigerians in Libya. It is possible the Minister made his remark with this in mind.

Those Nigerians who chose to remain in Libya when sensible people
had left when the violence started,
What were they expecting?
Some people can be so stupid

A Cape Town doctor, working with an international humanitarian aid group in Libya, has described how more than 1000 foreign labourers are holed up in derelict camps without food and water.

Dr Mohammed Dalwai, 28, who arrived in Libya's capital, Tripoli, two weeks ago, said the country's situation was dire.

More than 1000 labourers from Nigeria, Gambia, Togo and Sudan are struggling to survive in the camps without food or water. Dalwai, a member of the humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said the walls of one of the camps, erected in a port west of the city, had faeces smeared on them.

"There is nothing at the camps, no water, no electricity. They are sleeping under derelict boats and there is excrement on the side of the harbour wall," said Dalwai.

The doctor said as a result of the absence of ablution facilities, disease was spreading.

Some of the migrant workers complained of respiratory infections, skin diseases and gastro-intestinal conditions. "A lot of them feel scared ,  (and) they are showing signs of psychosomatic disorders," he said.

Between 800 and 1000 labourers have been crammed into the makeshift port camp, while another 200 are located on a farm. Forces loyal to ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi have choked off Tripoli's water supply and engineers have not yet managed to reach the pumping stations at Jebel Hassouna, 700km away.

Some of the labourers have been in Libya for three years, working in the country's billion-dollar oil industry.

[b]Dalwai said migrant workers still feared for their lives [/b]as fighters are still trying to root out forces loyal to Gaddafi.

Dalwai, who arrived in Tripoli on August 26, is expected to return home on Saturday.

MSF spokesman Kate Ribet said between 40 and 50 of the organisation's international staff are working in Libya.

May the blood of those who died be on his head for trying to cover up their death. God punish am.

For all ya'll who are supporting NTC, watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQHBq8-xyLs

Olugbenga Ashiru see how Libyan Men are Brutally Desecrating and r.a.p.i.ng your Nigerian Women!!!!!

And you sat your ministerial cowardly Bottom down in Abuja denying it? Huh?

See violation, Abi medicine San frontiers dey lie, shey those women are not Nigerians?

This Gbenga Ashiru na the kind person wey go dash hin wife to robbers make then use just to save his property. SMH


http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/08/201182921437789463.html with Doctors Without Borders reports

Migrant workers living in a squatter settlement outside Tripoli have claimed that nearly two dozen women in the camp have been ra.p/e.d since opposition forces began their final push on the capital two weeks ago.

At the abandoned fishing harbour about 27km west of Tripoli, Nigerian maids Rose Johnson and Darcy Ikibueka said on Monday they are two of more than 20 women in the camp who have been violated by armed men whose identities and affiliations remain unknown.

The names of the women have been changed to protect their identities.

The claims were bolstered by aid workers from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who gained access to the camp on Saturday. Simon Burroughs, MSF emergency coordinator, said women had approached the staff with claims of violation and had received counselling.


Burroughs declined to say how many women had alleged violation or to discuss their testimony, specifically the women’s accusations about who was responsible.

"They're not free to talk about it. It’s the situation they're in," Burroughs said. "[But] we have to take the allegations seriously, we can’t discount them. This is not the environment for the kind of care and attention they need."


Gunmen attack


Sitting on plastic chairs in an unfinished, rubbish-filled concrete room inside the decrepit harbour headquarters, Johnson, 25, and Ikibueka, 22, told Al Jazeera of how they worked together in the same Tripoli household. They had lived in Libya for two years and came to the port in June.

Like hundreds of other migrants from Nigeria, Chad, Senegal and other impoverished African countries, they had fled to the camp to escape NATO bombings and impending street battles.


The port had in recent months become a hub for human traffickers whose business of smuggling migrants into Europe, usually by way of the Italian island of Lampedusa, boomed when Gaddafi opened the illegal immigration floodgates.

In an interview with the Italian radio station Rai, Hafez Gaddour, Libyan ambassador to Italy, said Gaddafi controlled illegal immigration "in person". The ambassador, who defected to the National Transitional Council (NTC) earlier this year, added that the flood of immigrants was meant to punish NATO nations for its bombing campaign.

These days, hundreds of men and women live in the shade of tilting fishing boats. On Monday, the migrants were cooking goat heads over small wood fires, braiding each other’s hair, and playing draughts with water bottle caps. Many speculated on the whereabouts of friends and family lost in the chaos of Tripoli.

On the night of August 19, gunmen entered the harbour camp. They fired their guns in the air, shouting "God is great". That night, Johnson and Ikibueka said, they were violated at gunpoint.

Anthony Ogiexeri , a 37-year-old Nigerian pastor who lives in the camp, gave Al Jazeera this account:

"The came in, some of them they were shooting all around, and they ordered girls to come out. [When] they came out, they laid them down. Some of them were saying they should allow the girls [to] go, and some of them said, 'No, they were going to violation them'. And at the end they submitted to the men, and they violated them. And after they left."

'Dark places'

Johnson, Ikibueka and several male refugees alleged the attackers were rebels who shouted slurs against Gaddafi. At the time of the alleged Desecrates, the camp lay in contested territory.

But Ogiexeri said he could not tell who had carried out the attacks. It is possible that forces on either side in the conflict, or even unallied gunmen, could have stormed the harbour camp.

Rebel forces do not obey one single line of command, making it difficult to determine what units where in the camp's vicinity at the time. Efforts to reach representatives of the National Transitional Council on Monday night were unsuccessful.

Regular visits from armed gangs have slowed in the three days since the MSF team arrived, Burroughs said. Yet he was still concerned about the security at the port and worried that publicising the women's testimony could lead to reprisals.

Johnson and Ikibueka estimated that 25 to 30 women had been violated in the camp. It was impossible to verify that number during Al Jazeera’s visit, but an aid worker who declined to be named said it was close to the organisation’s estimate.

Migrants and aid workers said the threat of violence still remains. 

Some Libyans have donated food and supplies to the camp, but in recent days, groups of armed men and boys have regularly entered the camp at night, robbing the refugees of food and money.

They also take women away to use them for sex, Ogiexeri said.

"We try to connect lights so we can see ourselves at night, but they take them to the dark places."

Source: Al Jazeera.

['m so mad at the minister right now. With so much glaring evidence the silly man can still go ahead and spew this rubbish. No wonder he allowed a fool on this thread to make fun of the Yoruba race. And GEJ rushed to endorse the Libyan rebels without even examining the situation at hand. Even South Africa whose citizens are not being killed this way is not rushing to recognise the NTC.

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@ poster.
What did you watch on CNN? Did you see Nigerian being attacked or killed?
Those you watch on CNN where they not released?
Do you have any evidence of  a Nigerian being attacked again?
Show it, so that minister can be sacked, otherwise just keep quiet.
[quote][/quote] Hope you've seen all the evidence you want now Mr Evidence?

I presume one way or the other this idiotic Minister would have seen this videos on Youtube, Would have been the other way round if one of his family members was stucked in Libya, ASSHOLE!!!!

tpia@:

Seriously why are people just speaking out of turn and for no reason these days as if they're on crack.

Was the minister forced to make that statement or has he never heard the phrase silence is golden? Meaning there are situations where you keep your mouth shut.

The minister is just trying to show how much he is behind the new policy of recognizing the rebels. The real fault belongs to the civil society groups/NGO's who are not bringing to the limelight these people. All these victims have representatives in the house and the senate. Pressure should be put on them, which will force the government to take action.

@ the videos.

90% of the victims are either Yoruba or Fulanis, judging by the tribal marks. Shame on the Minister, big shame.

Honestly, i'm fed up!!!!

A concerted effort should be made by ECOWAS (spearheaded by Nigeria) in conjunction with NATO -or a single member country we have close ties with like the UK- to evacuate ALL West Africans from Libya to Nigeria and Ghana in the first instance. And once they've been rehabilitated, they can be given a small grant to proceed to their respective countries or -for the Nigerians- settle down back home.

This should be done by tuesday latest, as lives are at risk.

If we don't care for our own, we shouldn't blame others for treating our own worse than they'd treat animals. Shikena!!