Should Nigeria Learn from India: Locals beat Nigerian in Goa, no complaint yet



Locals beat Nigerian in Goa, no complaint yet
Monday, Nov 18, 2013, 15:30 IST | Place: Panaji | Agency: IANS

A Nigerian was beaten up by locals for allegedly intimidating a woman after an accident Saturday in Goa's party hotspot, Candolim. But no complaint has been registered yet, a police spokesperson said here Monday.

Eye-witnesses said the Nigerian was driving a scooter in the coastal beach village of Candolim, 15 km from here, when it collided with another two-wheeler being driven by a woman. While the two were engaged in a verbal spat, several locals arrived on the spot and beat up the Nigerian national.

Police spokesperson John Aguair confirmed the incident, but said no record was available with the police as no complaint had filed in this regard.

"It happened after a motor vehicle accident. There was commotion. But no complaint was registered from either side," Aguair told IANS.

The incident comes at a time when relations between Nigerians living in Goa and local residents and the state police machinery are at their worst, after a public conflict last month.

The murder of the Nigerian and alleged police apathy had resulted in the Nigerians blocking a major highway and publicly intimidating the police.

At the gay end of the protest, one Nigerian was severely beaten up by the locals who went on a rampage. A police crackdown on Nigerians had also caused a diplomatic tussle between Nigeria and India.


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Villages in Goa have started a racist campaign against Nigerians, a lawmaker in Nigeria's House of Representatives said, according to a report in a leading Nigerian newspaper Thursday.

The statement, made a day ago, comes even as the lower house of the Nigerian Parliament resolved to mandate its committees on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora to probe the Nigerian's murder and "illegal incarceration of 53 others" in Goan prisons, The Nigerian Tribune said.

The resolution warned of a backlash against Indians in Nigeria.

The Tribune also said that lawmaker Yusuf Ayo Tajudeen came down heavily on Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar for issuing a "a directive to the police to commence clampdown and possible deportation of Nigerians".

The resolution, passed unanimously in the 360-member house, according to the newspaper, was moved by Tajudeen and titled "Gruesome murder of a Nigerian and illegal incarceration of 53 Nigerians in India".

A Nigerian mob had smashed a police vehicle, assaulted policemen and blocked a national highway Oct 31. They were protesting the murder of their compatriot by a drug mafia and demanding the presence of a consular official at the postmortem.

In response, the Goa government enforced a crackdown on all foreigners, sparking a diplomatic row, after a Nigerian consul accused the state police of harassment of Nigerians.

Two villages namely Parra and Siolim have passed resolutions banning Nigerians students and Nigerians from hiring rooms in their village jurisdictions.





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A local bike rental association has also stopped renting to Nigerians in "protest" at last month's blockade of the highway by some 60 West Africans, mostly Nigerians, and their alleged "high-handedness with the police".

"I've got nothing against them, and you can't have a blanket ban. But they really are a nuisance, because some of them are in the drug trade," said a local businessman in Parra who did not want to be named.

Jose Pacheco, a young man in the village, says: "One of the Nigerians was harassing my sister, who noted down his bike number and we had to trace it down and warn him. When there's a bike accident, even before we can call our friends to the scene, they are there in larger number. Being physically bigger, they tend to intimidate us."

Nigerian officials say such attitudes amount to little more than discrimination.



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