so sad to see on the news this morning that 25 9jerians living in ireland has been sent back to 9ja lastnite,the plane departed 10pm with 25 deportee's and some police officer to madrid where more deportee's are due to board on the same plane to lagos.

Why is it sad to see? If they are illegal, they are reducing chances of legal folk coming over.

Unless they were unfairly/wrongly deported, then there is nothing sad about it to me.

it's sad in the sense that some of this fox has been living in those countries btween 5 to 10yrs ,where do they have to start from,beside some of them must have developed western immune system,how 'll such pple cope in a populated and polluted state.

wow i was thinking to visit dublin and if possible to live there

sucessful1:

so sad to see on the news this morning that 25 9jerians living in ireland has been sent back to 9ja lastnite,the plane departed 10pm with 25 deportee's and some police officer to madrid where more deportee's are due to board on the same plane to lagos.

Boo hoo, cry me a river. I've read about how Nigerians have taken advantage of Irish generosity. Why do you think they changed their citizenship laws? I'm sure there is a story behind this, I remember reading about how Nigerians (who are only about one percent of the population) basically control the cocaine trade in that tiny Island! These types of people mess up the image of us honest, hard working Nigerians!

sucessful1:

it's sad in the sense that some of this fox has been living in those countries btween 5 to 10yrs ,where do they have to start from,beside some of them must have developed western immune system,how 'll such pple cope in a populated and polluted state.

I appreciate that - but that doesn't make it right. Their illegal activities hurt many more people at home and abroad. I know it will be hard for them to cope, but they made their choice so they should face the consequences.

black s , ya right but at the same time you need to see how white men live in nigeria those fools live like a king here

adebisi1:

black s , ya right but at the same time you need to see how white men live in nigeria those fools live like a king here

are they illegal immigrants? Most likely not! can they explain their source of income/wealth? most likely yes!
remember most westerners/whites coming to nigeria come with their skills, money and valid visas

@all

african's here dont do much crime as u think,all i know that some pple do here is that they dont work,they stay on benefit.irish pple never see any african here as a drug dealer.the drug world here is controlled by the white's,irish in particular are in charge of drug dealing's,very few black's are into drug's here.irish drug's gang's are very strong,9jerians can't witstand them.9jerians represent -0.5% of crime here.in other words they dont do much crime as u guy's thot.

@blackspade

ur source of info was not uptil date,those day's are gone.what happened was that there was not much pple of other nationalities here so all of a sudden here is black pple everywhere in d street,they were scared of us in those day's now we re all used to each other's

sucessful1 are you living there? please i need info about that country let chat if you dont mind?? adebisi12000

@adebisi

what do u need 2 know?any how irish pple are luvly peeps,ey r very friendly now because there r every nations of the world living here.i say ireland is cool, the only problem now is that we are @ recession @ d moment and that ain't funny ,jobs are being lost every min,unemployment is over the roof,good news is that cost of living is coming down a bit

blackspade:

Boo hoo, cry me a river. I've read about how Nigerians have taken advantage of Irish generosity. Why do you think they changed their citizenship laws? I'm sure there is a story behind this, I remember reading about how Nigerians (who are only about one percent of the population) basically control the cocaine trade in that tiny Island! These types of people mess up the image of us honest, hard working Nigerians!

And where the hell did you get that information from? Next time do your proper homework b4 taking about what you dont know.

sucessful1:

@adebisi

any how irish pple are luvly peeps,ey r very friendly

U r right to a very large extent.

sucessful1:

@adebisi

@ recession @ d moment and that ain't funny ,jobs are being lost every min,unemployment is over the roof,

It aint funny man, those of us who are still furtunate to still have our jobs are praying hard for God to keep it for us o, its not easy to join that. . . . its terrible.

sucessful1:

@adebisi

,good news is that cost of living is coming down a bit

Are you sure? My house rent has not reduced o, and milk is still same price 

Heavy Trafficking

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Dublin -- THERE is a truly international makeup to the nationalities involved in trafficking cocaine into Ireland.

African, eastern European, Dutch and Irish feature highly, with a scattering of British, American and Germans.

But it’s the dominance of Africans, particularly west Africans, that is most stark.

For the last three years (for which there are figures available), Africans accounted for more than half of all people arrested for cocaine trafficking in 2005 and 2007 and 30% in 2006.

Of these, the single most prominent nationality is Nigerian. In 2005, they single-handedly accounted for half of those arrested. In the other two years it was closer to a third.

The trend highlights two things: the first, and most obvious, is the use of Nigerian and African nationals to smuggle drugs, often inside their body at great personal risk.

The other thing is the relatively sudden emergence of west African, namely Nigerian, gangs in the cocaine trafficking trade — a trend highlighted in a number of United Nations reports in recent years.

Michael Colgan is head of Customs Drugs Law Enforcement. Customs supplied the raw data from which the UN produced its data. (Garda figures are not included in the data for cocaine trafficking arrests).

Commenting on the high number of Nigerians, he said: “They are the people we are detecting. We’re not saying they are the people at the heart of trafficking. They are people tasked with running the load, acting as couriers or mules.”

He said the figures “would indicate there are gangs of that nationality involved” and that these gangs have an availability of fellow nationals to bear the risk of smuggling.

“They are often not [high] up the socio-economic ladder and may not have got a lot of money for undertaking what they’ve attempted to do.”

He said research on those arrested for trafficking, and the flights they’ve taken, allow Customs to target resources to those flights, and those people, who carry a higher risk.

“It helps us to narrow down from the many thousands of people arriving every day and narrow down those particular flights or those passengers who come from areas historically and have a proven high risk.”

The influence of Nigerian gangs does not end with their own, or neighbouring, people. UN reports have pointed out that west African gangs are using eastern Europe to supply cocaine into the main markets in western Europe.

A significant number of eastern Europeans have been arrested by Customs. In 2005, 7% of those arrested were Polish. In 2006, 10% were Polish and 17% were Estonian. In 2007, 9% of those arrested were Polish.

“Some eastern Europeans appear to be recruited by west African groups on account they have EU passports and are entitled to freedom of movement within the EU and would encounter less controls in terms of their movements,” said Mr Colgan.

The UN said trafficking has changed considerably since 2005. Before then, South American cartels were sending cocaine via the traditional routes, direct to Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Because of greater law enforcement efforts there, they have diverted a large chunk of the massive shipments of cocaine to the west African coast, where security is low and governance is weak and corrupt. Now almost 30% of cocaine going into Europe comes from west Africa.

“There appears to be two parallel flows,” said the UN report, Drug Trafficking as a Security Threat in West Africa. “One, mainly involving large maritime and private air shipments, is owned and managed by South Americans.

“In exchange for logistic assistance with these shipments, west Africans are paid in cocaine.

“This has created a second flow, as west Africans also traffic these drugs to Europe, usually via commercial air flights.”

It said Nigerians accounted for most of those arrested off these flights. It said they were prominent in arrests figures for France, Austria, Italy, Ireland and Spain.

Lead author of the report, Ted Leggett, told the Irish Examiner that the use of couriers on commercial air flights was a favourite of west African drug trafficking networks worldwide.

“It basically gets handed back to Nigerians when it gets to Europe. Obviously there is a relationship with local organised crime groups. It would be very difficult for them to operate without the knowledge of local groups.”

He said Nigerian gangs worked across the world, in Brazil, South Africa, Russian, the US, Thailand and even places like Kyrgyzstan.

“They are very adaptable. They are very good at doing what they do. The way they succeed is by filling niches local people haven’t filled.”

Mr Leggett said Nigerian gangs were “not structured” and were essentially a “a bunch of entrepreneurs”, often engaged in both legal and illegal trades.

“They know somebody who knows somebody and know where they can get stuff. If someone gets arrested there’s plenty of people who can fill that person’s role. It’s networks, they have got people in places all around the world,” he added.

The looseness of the structure makes it more difficult for law enforcement, he said. They generally “keep a low profile” and don’t carry guns and were not particularly violent compared with other ethnic gangs.

He said new traffickers may start out couriering themselves until they earn enough money to sub-contract. “Better resourced networks can afford to field large numbers of couriers on the same flight, a technique known as the “shotgun approach”. The traffickers know that most airports have the capacity to detain only a limited number of suspects on any given flight. Losses are anticipated, and even planned, but the bottom-line remains viable.”

In Ireland, air is by far the most common means of trafficking.

In terms of volume seized, the bulk has been by sea.

As Ireland doesn’t have direct links with South America or west Africa, the couriers caught here are typically coming off flights from the European hub airports.

Mr Colgan said smuggling is done either by concealing cocaine, typically between 1kg and 3kg in size, on the person or in luggage, or by ingesting the drug, in sizes up to 1.2kg.

He said they have already noticed a trend this year in the number of couriers ingesting cocaine.

There have been six cases at Dublin Airport already, compared with eight last year.

“Even with the downturn in the economy we are seeing no diminution in the amount of cocaine being trafficked. The most marked trend in the first two months is the increase in the number of internal concealments.”

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/idgbqlsney/

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2009/03/14/story86794.asp

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Hmmmmmm. . . . .

hi ayo
am sure that if u neg wit ur landlord he drop d price or u may look 4 another house,visit daft.ie am sure u'll get a cheaper house,if i may ask how much r u paying @ d moment.

@black

who's mr colgan,am sure he's no body.any way my father alway's use the word dont believe everything read

sucessful1:

hi ayo
am sure that if u neg wit ur landlord he drop d price or u may look 4 another house,visit daft.ie am sure u'll get a cheaper house,if i may ask how much r u paying @ d moment.

@black

who's mr colgan,am sure he's no body.any way my father alway's use the word dont believe everything read

mmmmmmm what if daddy was wrong?

sucessful1 @ Thanks alot

sucessful1 @ i need there visa now how can i get it easy?

@ADEBISI

am sure that if u have a sponsor, someone who has a lot of dough on his r her a/cct,get em 2 send u an invitation letter,then u can come as a visitor or u can pay college fee so doing u can come as a student.if i may ask what profession r u into?

sucessful1 @ Thanks bro , the acct must be dublin acct ? or i can use naija account too? am a computer eng. by prof

add me to chat bro am online adebisi12000@yahoo.co.uk

d acct of sum1 living in ireland,

Ok Thanks

sucessful1 @ bro please you can link me to any school in dublin ?

@adebisi

u can visit this www.dbs.ie or www.dorsetcollege.ie

sucessful1:

hi ayo
am sure that if u neg wit ur landlord he drop d price or u may look 4 another house,visit daft.ie am sure u'll get a cheaper house,if i may ask how much r u paying @ d moment.

I tried that it didnt work but moving is what i dont have time for now cant even start thinking of it esp wt the kids school close by and the proximity to work as well. I pay 900 for my 2bd, not even daft can get me cheaper 2 bd in Tallaght. Thanks anyway.

sucessful1:

@black

who's mr colgan,am sure he's no body.any way my father alway's use the word dont believe everything read

U are right. No foreigner beats dem Irish in the circle of . . . .

@ayo

900 for 2bdroom for me that is a very good price.on business news 2 day,say's rent has dropped 5% on d first quater of 09,am sure in a place like ashburne or dundalk u'll find 2 bed for about 650 to 800.my self am living @ sandyford 2bedroom is going for 1800.p.m,search on daft am sure u'll find somting cheap oneday.

Thanks successful, i read it in the news yesterday as well but i cant get 2bd cheaper in Tallaght and cant go that far because of my kids' school and my work as well.