I'm sure he's a nigerian man that got deported but lied to fellow nigerians bcause he doesn't know where to start the nigerian life, but thats my opinion, what do you think the man claims he is not a nigerian by any means whatsoever and they just deported him at murtallah mohammed airport and left him there.He lives in a shack beside the American embassy at Walter Carrinton Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos. Each morning, he wakes up and heads straight to the citizen’s stand at the embassy in his only dress – an American jail suit.
was brought here without anything. I mean there is nothing to identify me. There was no deportation order, and I was not received by the Nigerian government. So, no one knows that I am here, not even my people in America. I don’t have the telephone number of Kemi, the mother of my only child. The last time I had contact with her was April 2000 when she visited me in my correctional institution,” he said
His journey into trouble began on March 31, 1999 when he was arrested by security agents at his Brooklyn home New York city in connection with a credit card fraud.
Found guilty of conspiracy and stealing, he was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment to be followed by a three-year supervised release.
At the completion of the jail term, however, he was deported during his transfer from the Federal Bureau of Prison to MDC Brooklyn, New York, for a release programme at the prison bureau.
He said, ”Usually, when people are about to be released, they will be unfettered. But in my case, I remained in handcuffs,” he said.
And rather than taking him to where he would be released, he was ferried to the airport in his jail suit and deported to Nigeria.
“I was forced into the plane with handcuffs. I first thought it was a joke,” he recollected.
But he realised how wrong he was when they dumped him at the Murtala Mohammed Airport and left.
“The journey lasted about 18 hours and while the other passengers were alighting from the plane, I remained seated, thinking that I would be going back with the plane,” Eugene recalled. To his amazement, he was pushed onto the tarmac in his jail suit and handcuffs, while the immigration officials that escorted him only threw the keys to the handcuffs at him.
Some sympathisers calmed me down and asked me what was the problem. I explained to them, and told them that I did not know anybody in Nigeria because I had lived all my life in America. “I had no dime on me. Five of them contributed money and called a taxi to take me to the American Embassy on Victoria Island,” he said.

But his call at the embassy did not help the situation. “Someone came to interrogate me and I explained myself. I was actually expecting them to take my DNA and fingerprints to verify my claim, but they did not do any of those.” Thus began his travails in Nigeria. “At times, I stayed for a week without food and I would feel I should just die,” he said.
Eugene said he had, since his deportation to Nigeria been living on charity, particularly from some of the people he met during his detention at Ikoyi Prison. He also vowed to continue wearing his only jail suit until his request to be taken back to America was met.

http://nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=12538&z=12

I somehow believe his story though!

I suspect he actually has a Nigerian father but has never been to Nigeria or doesnt have any actual ties with Nigeria.
He looks pretty rough though.

This story itself is repeated old story over and over! Check out existing NL threads at below:

An American Deported To Nigeria
www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-94620.0.html

American Deported To Nigeria Charged for Loitering, Knows Fate Wed (pic)
www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-94287.0.html

Newspaper link above include comments what other ppl say about him:
Nigeria: Trail for Loitering - American 'Wrongly Deported'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930499/posts

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I myself am American, I do not believe his story---flatly lied! Why? Because--read below:

[list]
[li]1. If he knew his mother name, then why can't he called his mother or his family on the phone helping him to bail him out return to the state? Nothing happen!!! What does it mean to you? This guy has no family? no friends? no work colleagues who could petition the US government on his behalf? no birth certificate? no credit cards? no drivers license? no property in the US?

Obviously this man is a Nigerian illegal immigrant! [/li]


[li]2. I googled getting further information about this man, Grayson Ernest Eugene and as the result I get that there is NO AMERICA NEWSPAPER and NO AMERICA TV NEWS(CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC) letting Americans know about this man, Grayson Ernest Eugene who is an American dumped in Nigeria wrongly. NOTHING!

Only I found the results from google.com - all Nigeria newspapers (naijarules.com, odili.net, freerepublic.com, allafrica.com, punchontheweb.com, naijalive.net; blogs: aachronym..com). What does it (media news) tell you? NONE OF ANY WESTERN MEDIA have published about this man---NOTHING?[/li]
[/list]

COMMON SENSE! This man is flatly out Nigerian Illegal Immigrant US immigration deported him back to Nigeria!!!

uspry1:

This story itself is repeated old story over and over! Check out existing Nairaland threads at below:

An American Deported To Nigeria
www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-94620.0.html

American Deported To Nigeria Charged for Loitering, Knows Fate Wed (pic)
www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-94287.0.html

Newspaper link above include comments what other people say about him:
Nigeria: Trail for Loitering - American 'Wrongly Deported'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930499/posts

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I myself am American, I do not believe his story---flatly lied! Why? Because--read below:

[list]
[li]1. If he knew his mother name, then why can't he called his mother or his family on the phone helping him to bail him out return to the state? Nothing happen!!! What does it mean to you? This guy has no family? no friends? no work colleagues who could petition the US government on his behalf? no birth certificate? no credit cards? no drivers license? no property in the US?

Obviously this man is a Nigerian illegal immigrant! [/li]


[li]2. I googled getting further information about this man, Grayson Ernest Eugene and as the result I get that there is NO AMERICA NEWSPAPER and NO AMERICA TV NEWS(CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC) letting Americans know about this man, Grayson Ernest Eugene who is an American dumped in Nigeria wrongly. NOTHING!

Only I found the results from google.com - all Nigeria newspapers (naijarules.com, odili.net, freerepublic.com, allafrica.com, punchontheweb.com, naijalive.net; blogs: aachronym(dot)(dot)com). What does it (media news) tell you? NONE OF ANY WESTERN MEDIA have published about this man---NOTHING?[/li]
[/list]

COMMON SENSE! This man is flatly out Nigerian Illegal Immigrant US immigration deported him back to Nigeria!!!

wow, you've done your research.

I feel sorry for the guy. Some people get taken abroad whilst young and then get dumped and left to fend for themselves. Sad.

Busy_body:

I feel sorry for the guy. Some people get taken abroad whilst young and then get dumped and left to fend for themselves. Sad.

why? i don't buy his story one bit. and i'm sure immigration will notify his family members.

naija_diva:

why? i don't buy his story one bit. and i'm sure immigration will notify his family members.

I know Nigerians in Nigeria are exceptionally kind and compassionate, but who is gonna lay a red carpet treatment for someone who got deported, moreso someone that hardly ever got in touch with them or was aware of their existence.

the guy should stop this drama and go and visit his village ABEG, he is naija, if he was american his friend will have held rallies to bring him back by now.

idupaul:

the guy should stop this drama and go and visit his village ABEG, he is naija, if he was american his friend will have held rallies to bring him back by now.

exactly

the guy should stop this drama and go and visit his village ABEG, he is naija, if he was american his friend will have held rallies to bring him back by now.

Question:
on what ground did Nigeria accepted for him to be deported back to Lagos?

was he issued travell document?

it is shameful we cannot even identify who is a nigerian and who is not depsite spending $240mill on national ID.

their should deport him back .

whiteroses:

[b][color=#000099]I'm sure he's a nigerian man that got deported but lied to fellow nigerians bcause he doesn't know where to start the nigerian life,

I agree with uspy1. The whole story sounds so fake how can the US Government put an american citizen on a plane and deport him to another man's country with a jail suit on. Why didn't we hear anything about the guy in our papers as soon as he arrived if what he's saying is true?

The guy has been in the states illegally to long. And is naieve enough to think that somehow if he keeps protesting they will send him back

it's a very sad story and as much as the other Americans on here would say that the government would notify his family and the government this and the government that. let me tell you that the government has done crazier things than just dumping someone in another country. If i were that man i would be working on getting in contact with a congress man or senator so that they could actually try to prove that he is who he says he is. I say this because the same thing well sort of happened to my mother. in Nigeria she was on her way back to NY and some idiot immigration man decided to stop her and then said that she was traveling with fake documents. This shi@t im talking about went on for over one year before they finally came to their senses. After all was said and done the only thing the government said was that they were sorry. Imagine a whole year of your life lost and sorry is all you get.

i say this to say that the man might be telling te truth who knows. Also if you are a forigner and you get arrested for a serious crime as soon as you get out, even if you have been living there for 30 years your azz is on the way back home. which is probably what happened to him he lived in the U.S for so long he forgot that he is Nigerian

He looks like he is in his fifties. I guess someone probably stole his identity to pepertrate the credit card fraud.

_{Akoba, adaba, olorun maje kari}

Would it hurt to check his DNA and prints.

The earlier this fellow comes to terms with the reality of his present condtion and engage his mind and hands d beta for him.