Spending A Million Naira To Find Yourself Stranded In A Wrong Country

   I do not hold grudges against anyone, and i'm not a trouble maker, my intentions were to hinder unfair moves to dupe or scam people who want to travel: i know many people who have lost great deal of money to travel fraudsters, or that have been deceived to travel to places where they are frustrated and in desperate need to return to Nigeria empty handed: A childhood pal of mine is a victim, he lost more than a million Naira only to find himself in a place like Bahrain, a tiny island in the Persian gulf/east of Saudi Arabia, north of Qatar (the country is so tiny that you can barely see it in the middle east map except if zoomable).
  Of course he was deceived to believe that there is a greener pasture for him once he gets there. To make things even worse, his poor family celebrated his travel success. Thus feeling the weight of the shame to return to Nigeria empty handed, he overstayed his visa and his returned ticket. He called me several times for help, i could only send him some money, but that wasn't what he wanted, he expected i could help him get to Europe from there. But that was absolutely impossible since he hadn't a residence permit for Bahrain to enable him apply for a visa from there, and worst still, his visa had expired: The desperate guy had other suggestions, he thought he could "vanish" into other countries closer to Europe and then, he would cross over. As you can see in the map bellow, Bahrain shares no border with any country.
  It was difficult to persuade him to return to Nigeria and take other safe means for Europe. At this time, i had no choice than to warn him that his plans was as risky as trying to swim across some crocodile infested rivers and that i wasn't going to send him further money except for his ticket to go back home.
   When i said "crocodile infested rivers", i wasn't referring to the sea itself, i was actually referring to the land-border crossing, first of all, there are countless number of forgotten or abandoned, or even undetected land mines at various border sides of the middle east; also, you all know how much we fear Arab people in terms of kidnap and other terrifying activities. So, i don't think it's an ideal to trespass their borders especially for someone with a name like Christopher.
  I eventually had to buy his ticket myself because i feared he would use the money to substain himself (as he had been doing) and that would make him stay longer in Bahrain with the pressure on me.
  He's now back in Nigeria, but he's yet to recover from his ordeal. His terrible experience is not something anybody would like to pass through.
   My outspoken spirit has earned me some negative responses and people have called me names and insulted my personality, but who am i not to expect insult? Well, nobody (they say) is perfect, i'm a nobody just one other user of this versatile forum.
  I want to use this opportunity to make it clear that i'm not against anybody who's doing his business, whether you're a Travel Agent, Helper, Consultant or Tout, i just wish that in any condition, you guys should explain the true circumstance of the situations in the destination countries.
   I however wish to apologies to anyone who personally took offence at my posts as they weren't intended to hurt or offend anyone.
   Long live Nairaland!

I see.

My email address is kola.ibadan@gmail.com

I want spiritual help to travel but i want Nairalanders to know about the progress.

Maybe my own will boost your business here.

Do i still need documents to send to embassy or you will sort that one out as well?

Thanks

 

akolawole my job is to prepare medicin for you to go to ambassy and when you get visa i will prepare another medicin that will help you pass imigration without no problem at all. i do'nt prepare any paper work understand?

whay you want to see my pictiure? do you beleave only pictures? blesed is he who do'nt see but yet beleave.

@vicjustice, sorry about your friend that went to Bahrain. At this age and time people can still be thinking that it is only when they travel that they can make it. With that kind of money why don't he go into business, he can make times three of his monthly income in europe in one switch, it pained me that ignorance is what is killing us. Forget all this yeye HYIP, think of what to invest on do your thing by yourself and you will see what you will come up with.

sadly, most people just want to travel out irrespective of the destination

no let the guy use voodoo on you.

Hello Vic and everyone.
I have a friend who left for italy 3months ago. He has a wife who lives in italy with their 4years old baby. she has been living there for about 8 years now. Now he is trying to travel to Canada where his sister and her family is living. He says his Italian born baby has to be 18 years to be Italian citizen. I thought a baby born in any foreign country automatically becomes a citizen of that country, and the parents can get permit to work?? What should he do to be able to get a job there? i don't know how he got the papers he used to travel to italy. What kind of advice should be given in this kind of situation?

In the US after caught with 12 million illegal immigrants that place on hold for DEPORTATION, they at US Immigrant Service HAS ALREADY MAKE THEIR MINDS.

If those illegal pregnant immigrant women enter to the USA for delivering their baby getting US CITIZENSHIP, therefore baby child born in the US will NOT GET US birth certificate to be qualify for US CITIZENSHIP. Once baby child born in the USA that would become ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT just like their ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PARENT, deport all of them illegal parent and newborn child back to their country. US will not allow them to stay in the USA after baby is born.

Sorry!!!! If you do not believe me, do your homework reading US Immigrant law that has been change recently up-to-date.

@ Vicjustice,

I'm sorry about your friend. I've heard many stories like
that as well and they are very touching.

You made the post sound like it's the travelling agents
that are at fault.

I honestly think your friend is a bit silly.

He spent 1 million naira to travel? Does he know what it
takes to raise that in Europe? He'll probaly never have £4k
cash all through his sojourn in Europe.

Apart from that, your post made it clear that he knew he
was not going to Europe directly. He knew he was going
to Bahrain and he went ahead? Or didn't he see the tickets
that were handed to him?

Is there something I'm missing?