Rossikk:

I said population was the MAIN reason, not the ONLY reason. Another good reason would be the Nigerian zeal for education, entrepreneurship, and material success, which surpasses that of any other African people. Similar to the Indians, Lebanese, Chinese etc. China is the world's second major superpower today, yet you have probably 100 million Chinese overseas till tomorrow.

That, I agree with. Indians are everywhere as well. Just like the folks from the countries you mentioned. That still doesn't mean we shouldn't keep our house in order. It's gotten so bad citizens of other African countries claim Nigeria when they get caught doing something illegal.

Afam4eva:
As a matter of fact Kenyans are equally been arrested in India just like Nigerians. I read one article where Indians were saying Nigerians and Kenyans must leave Goa. It's just that due to our population, the attention is mostly on us.

Afam, why are we (Nigerians and Kenyans) being arrested? Most of the arrest I've seen is either drug related or illegal immigration.

Do NOT go to India. It is a horrible place with corpses floating even in the holy river Ganges where people wash and bathe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTprNDVUIJs

There is a reason why India is not visitor friendly, even to Indians themselves.

naijaking1: There is a reason why India is not visitor friendly, even to Indians themselves.

They have also been in the news for the wrong reasons lately.

rosebowl01: These crimes are not committed by Nigerians. It is only a particular group of people, from a particular region, who speak a particular language that engage in these things. The Nigerian diplomat should not threaten Indians living in Nigeria because we would oppose it. He should only threaten the ones living in the region of the rising messed up sun. That is even if there's anybody willing to risk his life to live there in the first place.
Stop disgracing this country!

Stupid comment - this is childish . I live overseas yes Nigerians are into drugs much as other nations in multicultural environment chinese, labanesse , asians , africans etc In Nigeria all tribes espcially people from Niger delta ( edo) , SE and SW . North not all that inclusive because they dont travel much .Siiting there in Nigeria to make such comment shows that you dont know your country . In short the fraud and drug trafficking all started from Mid west( benin) and SW ( most lagos) when women from SW wrapped drugs in their clothes . Travelling is knowledge . Some people have never stepped out of their some region and they come here to exposed their ignorant .

infonubia: Read this article by Priyadarshi Dutta of the Niti Central. It is a response to Jacob Nwadibia's statement on the Goa government move to deport Nigerians living in the city illegally. It also addresses the recent killing of a Nigerian in India and the subsequent violence that followed.

This is Nwadibia's statement:



Dutta definitely raised some undeniable points. Read the response and share your thoughts.


Nwadibia warns that one million Indians living in Nigeria might be thrown out on the streets if 40,000 Nigerians living in India are ill-treated. Recently, a Nigerian national was murdered in Goa; which the State Government claims was result of turf war amongst drug peddlers.

Some 200 Nigerians also living in Goa blocked roads and indulged in unruly violence. The Goa Police now wants to evict all foreign nationals (not Nigerians specifically) living illegally in the State. This has provoked Nwadibia to demand an eye for an eye. This is not really the first time any foreign national got murdered in India – or in any other country. But that never provoke diplomats to become Ghengiz Khan or Halaku. Indian students occasionally get murdered in the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Some of them are actually victims of racism. Several nations in the world launch drives against illegal settlers. But diplomats do not bay for blood over it, but call for calm.


Nigerians murdered in other countries: Only last month a Nigerian student, Gabriel Soriwei was mowed down by a car in northern Cyprus. The woman driver of the car was detained and released three day later. But the Nigerian High Commission in Nicosia and Nigerian Embassy in Ankara have done precious little for justice to Gabriel. In August, Nigerian Stanley Eteimo, who had got engaged to a Cypriot lady, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Hotel Cratos, Kyrenia in northern Cyprus. It was possibly a hate crime that authorities maintained was a suicide. Nigerians have been killed in Malaysia, Thailand and elsewhere. But nobody has threatened those nations.

The Russian incident: Recently Moscow Police detained 16 Nigerian students (former terrorists) who were engaged in hooliganism in Nigerian Embassy in Moscow over non-payment of financial grant to them. It was the Nigerian embassy which called up Police finding themselves in a tight spot. The Nigerian embassy accepted the fact that the event brought calumny. It even postponed the Nigeria-Russia Business Forum saying the event organised by Nigerian embassy would lack credibility.

Indians in Nigeria a settled lot: In the present case in Goa, it is true that a Nigerian has been murdered. The guilty must be brought to book, whether he is an Indian or a foreigner. But simultaneously it has also emerged that the victim dealt in drugs. He was no software engineer, no medical practitioner, no trader or earning his livelihood by any honest means! But the Nigerian High Commission in India seems to be in denial. Will Nwadibia tell us that what are the professions of the Nigerians who created a ruckus in Goa? What brings so many Nigerians to Goa in the first place? Majority of the Indians in Nigeria whom Nwadibia threatens are living in that country for long. Whatever might be their citizenship, they are living legally in Nigeria. They run businesses or work in offices. They have their families in Nigeria and even own property there. Many of them are actually born in Nigeria; and belong to every age group. But the profiles of the Nigerians who live in India are vastly different. They are mostly young, male and living either alone or with friends. Some of them came on student visa but now expired. Most of them have no credible profession to pursue.

Indians in Nigeria not into crime: Not more than 10 Indians citizens are lodged in jails of Nigeria, Benin, Chad and Cameroon combined (vide MoS, External Affairs Reply in Lok Sabha August 7, 2013- “Indians Languishing in Prisons Abroad). But around 500 Nigerians languish in various Indian jails, a fact finding team led by a prominent Nigerian lawmaker recently found out. Around 1000 Nigerians are lodged in various jail of China. There are 800 Nigerians in Togo, a small West African nation of 7 million. Drug peddling is a common charge against them in any country. Is this merely a result of discrimination against Nigerians by all these countries, and magnanimity by the Nigerian authorities towards foreigners? No the Nigerian High Commission is acutely aware of these facts. But I leave it to readers’ judgement why they are silent about it.

Nigerians found dealing in narcotics: Is it merely anecdotal that Nigerians in India deal in drugs? No. As per the records of the Narcotics Control Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, 223 foreign nationals were arrested last year on charges of drug peddling. Out of them 67 were Nigerians, more than any other nation except for Nepal (72). Those alleging that the bias against Nigerians stems from racial prejudice against the Blacks should explain why it does not extend to other Africans in India? It is because no other African nationals have such antecedents in India as Nigerians. India was a vocal critic of Apartheid Policy in South Africa. It conferred upon Nelson Mandela, the highest civilian award of this land Bharat Ratna in 1990. As a school boy, this writerwrote a letter to Nelson Mandela admiring his struggle and wishing him early release. In the 1950s and 1960s India had helped Nigeria in Railways sector. Indians are one of the most accommodative people over the millennia.

Nigerian drug peddling a longstanding issue: The Goa murder has brought the drug peddling issue to a head. But drug peddling by Nigerians in India is an old problem. It is on record that Late Ajit Panja, as MoS, Finance replied to a Parliamentary question put by Krishna Kumar Birla in Rajya Sabha on August 30, 1988. Panja acknowledged that reports received and seizures made indicated that Mumbai was increasingly being used as a transit point by Nigerians in their drug trafficking activities. Some of the Nigerians nationals arrested for drug trafficking were found to be students. Panja also informed the House that Government of India and the Government of Nigeria had signed a joint declaration on October 21, 1987. It was intended to ‘extend cooperation to each other in suppression of drug abuse and prevention of drug trafficking’. The number of Nigerians arrested in 1986 and 1987 for drug peddling were 22 and 46 respectively. It has risen to 50, 75 and 72 in 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively.

The joint agreement has proven to be a dead letter. It is something both the Governments are aware of. So let us not compare Indians in Nigeria and Nigerians in Indians.

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That is not why people should take law
into their hands.Charge and prosecute them. After all many Nigerians died as a result of substandard drugs from India . Indians are crooks.They always like to cheat and are fraudulent .

Stupid article. So FG should round up all Indians since Vaswani Brothers imported expired foods into Naija; evaded taxes; lied to NASS and BPE in contravention of BP Act, that their company, Stallion Group will revive Volkswagen Nigeria, instead, they bought out FG stake turned the facility into a warehouse.

How about Dana company? Dana plane crash? They are selling KIA products in Naija without airbags.

If some Nigerians are selling drugs in India, govt should find , prosecute and sentence them. Govt shouldn't not be labelling people as fraudsters because of their nationality. I wonder if public officials in India could mention Saudi and terrorism in the same sentence and not get reprimanded?

icon aus:

That is not why people should take law
into their hands.Charge and prosecute them. After all many Nigerians died as a result of substandard drugs from India . Indians are crooks.They always like to cheat and are fraudulent .

I definitely agree that the people should have taken laws into their hands. The perpetrators of such horrendous act should be found and brought to book. however that doesn't absolve us from playing our parts in making sure that we project a better image of the country.

adconline: Stupid article. So FG should round up all Indians since Vaswani Brothers imported expired foods into Naija; evaded taxes; lied to NASS and BPE in contravention of BP Act, that their company, Stallion Group will revive Volkswagen Nigeria, instead, they bought out FG stake turned the facility into a warehouse.

How about Dana company? Dana plane crash? They are selling KIA products in Naija without airbags.

If some Nigerians are selling drugs in India, govt should find , prosecute and sentence them. Govt shouldn't not be labelling people as fraudsters because of their nationality. I wonder if public officials in India could mention Saudi and terrorism in the same sentence and not get reprimanded?

Any sensible government wouldn't let any of these alleged atrocities go unpunished. Unfortunately, there's been no one to hold them accountable. Hence, the records are not in our favor when dealing with crime numbers.

Sorry, this is unrelated but one of my pet peeve is seeing a Nigerian treat a fellow Nigerian like trash while esteeming the foreign counterpart. It shouldn't be! It happens a lot at our international airports.

Aigbofa: Simple logic. To those who say Indians commit crimes in Nigeria, maybe they should also go to India to commit the type of crime Indians commit in Nigeria, and not stand by street corners to sell drugs and make themselves easy target of violence.

Lol

wow...guilty as charged. However, this article creates an impression or stereotype of Nigerians in other countries as most likely involved in drug dealing. I understand the gravity of the offense of the murdered victim; however, mob justice is not the answer. The Goa police and authorities should have been the one to step in and control the situation. Dutta wants to discuss the involvement and activities of Nigerians in other foreign soil and how the officials did not react to the death of previous Nigerians? It's one action that gains media's attention and the public's eye that paints the overall picture - raising the names of other victims from the grave.
I don't believe that the removal of Indians from Nigeria is the solution; neither is pointing fingers and using statistics as support the answer - any publicist can do that. My point is that the leaders that are appointed are there for a reason; they should step up and do their job. To emphasize one of the few points that I agree with Dutta on: "the joint agreement has proven to be a dead letter." The two countries should work on creating an active agreement that works to reduce drug trafficking, no matter what foreigner or national brings it in.

tnature: wow...guilty as charged. However, this article creates an impression or stereotype of Nigerians in other countries as most likely involved in drug dealing. I understand the gravity of the offense of the murdered victim; however, mob justice is not the answer. The Goa police and authorities should have been the one to step in and control the situation. Dutta wants to discuss the involvement and activities of Nigerians in other foreign soil and how the officials did not react to the death of previous Nigerians? It's one action that gains media's attention and the public's eye that paints the overall picture - raising the names of other victims from the grave.
I don't believe that the removal of Indians from Nigeria is the solution; neither is pointing fingers and using statistics as support the answer - any publicist can do that. My point is that the leaders that are appointed are there for a reason; they should step up and do their job. To emphasize one of the few points that I agree with Dutta on: "the joint agreement has proven to be a dead letter." The two countries should work on creating an active agreement that works to reduce drug trafficking, no matter what foreigner or national brings it in.

Got some good points.

The headline should have been this "biafrans have no reason to feel discriminated in india"

azeezhy: The headline should have been this "biafrans have no reason to feel discriminated in india"

Pls let's not tribalize this issue. We are all Nigerians and all tribes have their issues. If we make this us against them, nothing will change.