ceejay80: Just 100 ? What of niger people and togo, the people pass more than 100,000 in lagos. They have to go

james2man: Deporting them is doing them a favor to visit their country,because some of them are even short of cash to travel back home. few months later they will be back in 9ja.

gboss4sure: Thats not gonna solve the problem. There is no solution to human bomb... The person that you want to kill already wants to die. Will they stop northerners from coming to Lagos? Nope. Deporting aint the solution, am still thinking of solution to human weapon and am yet to think of anyone. If you have any solution to this weapon kindly let me know.

Moreover did 100 Nigerians got deported when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to attack the USA.

Drlumi: If one Nigerian is arrested in New York for attempted terrorism, it makes sense to trace his house and deport all the other Nigerians in the area, right?

I really hope these selected Chadians have been properly investigated and found to be contravening the laws of the land. I would love to believe that that is the case, however from my own experience of the Nigerian police (as a Nigerian), I can be 90 percent sure that they just went around arresting foreigners from these 'lesser developed' countries arbitrarily. For some of them, their only crime might actually be that they are not Nigerians and are not from the West. Sorry to sound disparaging but if you've ever been 'arrested' by our police under the allegation of cybercrime (because you happen to have a laptop and a nice phone without holding the receipt and are unwilling to part with a bribe), you would understand what I'm saying.

While taking a short term course in India, there was a time similar treatment was meted out to us (Nigerians who lived in an area popularly occupied by Nigerians). We were subjected to annoying and humiliating police searches. Needless to say, we protested and had it stopped. It taught me one lesson: If we don't like people accusing us worldwide of being terrorists, we shouldn't use terrorism as an excuse to maltreat other people. What if other nations started deporting Nigerians merely because a bomb blast goes off somewhere or the other in our nation every other week (at least, that's the impression many people outside have)?

Instead of victimizing these guys unnecessarily, we should tighten our immigration loopholes. We should have real immigration laws that are enforced. There should be effective databases of foreigners living in the country and their purposes for being there at each point in time. Don't tell me it can't work in Nigeria; similar developing countries manage such matters much better than we do. We beg every Tom, Dick and Harry to come in in the name of foreign investment and there is zero monitoring of the actions of these people. We then wake up one day and start deporting the less fortunate of them.

I wouldn't expect many people to agree with me. But ill-thought out behaviors like this form the basis for maltreatment of Nigerians in most places (the recent South-Africa episode is a good example). If we don't treat our own people with respect and can't do that to our neighbours, no one outside will respect us. If we catch a terrorist from Chad and our next response is to start deporting Chadians claiming that we suspect that they are 'connected'... what stops the world from doing the same to Nigerians?

In summary: deporting ILLEGAL immigrants is not necessarily a bad idea. We just shouldn't do it merely because they are from Chad or Mali.

REVOLUTNIS: Nonsense! Are they the problem of terrorism in this country, why have we decided to leave the poising and chase the snake. Boko haram is not from any of this countries. they should deport every Hausa man and woman who is found to be doing nothing but walking around the streets of Lagos and Yoruba land.

NLers, its people like this that are never satisfied with anything others do.

Well Mr Revolution, i'll tell u like this, if u don't like what Fashola did, do ur own, PERIOD!

ndu_chucks: This story appears bogus. A state government has no constitutional authority to deport foreign nationals.

I'd strongly urge Fashola and his peeps to move carefully, there is no need to go out of his way to make new enemies.

Too many Lagos bridges are prime candidates for retaliatory actions which Fashola has no defence against. These matters call for unusual wisdom.

Drlumi: If one Nigerian is arrested in New York for attempted terrorism, it makes sense to trace his house and deport all the other Nigerians in the area, right?

I really hope these selected Chadians have been properly investigated and found to be contravening the laws of the land. I would love to believe that that is the case, however from my own experience of the Nigerian police (as a Nigerian), I can be 90 percent sure that they just went around arresting foreigners from these 'lesser developed' countries arbitrarily. For some of them, their only crime might actually be that they are not Nigerians and are not from the West. Sorry to sound disparaging but if you've ever been 'arrested' by our police under the allegation of cybercrime (because you happen to have a laptop and a nice phone without holding the receipt and are unwilling to part with a bribe), you would understand what I'm saying.

While taking a short term course in India, there was a time similar treatment was meted out to us (Nigerians who lived in an area popularly occupied by Nigerians). We were subjected to annoying and humiliating police searches. Needless to say, we protested and had it stopped. It taught me one lesson: If we don't like people accusing us worldwide of being terrorists, we shouldn't use terrorism as an excuse to maltreat other people. What if other nations started deporting Nigerians merely because a bomb blast goes off somewhere or the other in our nation every other week (at least, that's the impression many people outside have)?

Instead of victimizing these guys unnecessarily, we should tighten our immigration loopholes. We should have real immigration laws that are enforced. There should be effective databases of foreigners living in the country and their purposes for being there at each point in time. Don't tell me it can't work in Nigeria; similar developing countries manage such matters much better than we do. We beg every Tom, Dick and Harry to come in in the name of foreign investment and there is zero monitoring of the actions of these people. We then wake up one day and start deporting the less fortunate of them.

I wouldn't expect many people to agree with me. But ill-thought out behaviors like this form the basis for maltreatment of Nigerians in most places (the recent South-Africa episode is a good example). If we don't treat our own people with respect and can't do that to our neighbours, no one outside will respect us. If we catch a terrorist from Chad and our next response is to start deporting Chadians claiming that we suspect that they are 'connected'... what stops the world from doing the same to Nigerians?

In summary: deporting ILLEGAL immigrants is not necessarily a bad idea. We just shouldn't do it merely because they are from Chad or Mali.

Dede1: Certain Nigerians are goofy as hell. Lagos State has no constitutional powers or rights to deport any foreign national from Nigeria.

Aigbofa:

You are right, will you be kind enough to accommodate these unfortunate people in your home in the east?

venatus25:
a literate g.oat on NL commenting, if i may ask are you happy to stand and watch stranger are killing your nation?

manny4life: Lagos isn't the one deporting them, the Lagos Command Immigration Service is. Illegal immigration is kinda good and bad, however it needs to be curbed.

Dede1:


Tell that to the moronic thread originator.

dederocs:
you are a fool,Nigerians are deported everyday even by poo countries like South Africa...Am sure you are a Ghanian.