Man deported from China smuggles notes from Dong-guan prison

Three days after Chijioke Obioha, a 38-year-old Nigerian, was executed in Singapore for drug trafficking, The Guardian has received a prison note smuggled out of Dong-guan prison in China by a source, which gave graphic details of the plights of over 2,000 Nigerians languishing in the Chinese prison.

Obioha was hanged in Changi Prison early on Friday morning alongside a Malaysian national, who was convicted on separate drugs offenses.

He was arrested in April 2007 after being found in possession of more than 2.6 kilogrammes of cannabis. The quantity surpassed the 500 grammes threshold that triggers the automatic presumption of trafficking under Singaporean law.

At the weekend, a fresh deportee from China, who had a brief stint in the Dong-guan Prison and managed to hide dozens of prison notes scribbled on tissue papers in his anus, said the prison facility alone where he was held for over three months had more than 2,000 Nigerians detained for various reasons, mostly drug-related.

According to him, many Nigerians have been incapacitated owing to the daily torture meted out to them by prison officials, while a lot more are on death row waiting for the hangman.

“One of the most commonly forms of torture is the shocking treatment where inmates are given continuous shocking from an electric device for up to two hours. When going through this procedure, most of us urinate and defecate on our pants. Some people, who have spent some time there have developed brain damage or some form of mental problems,” he said.

Excerpts of the letter read: “Dear fellow citizens of Nigeria, this is the voice of your compatriots suffering in chinese prison. We have been looking for an opportunity to make our plights known to the public, but God is so kind, one of us is being released now. This is why we are using him as our contact to the outside world.

“Many of us have a very heavy sentences of death and life imprisonment. Some of us have spent over 15 years in prison. We want our home government to come to our aid. We are being treated like animals, mostly Nigerians and other Africans.

“We are tortured daily with electric device. The worst part is that it is our fellow prisoners officials use to carry out this torture. When we ask why they do this to us, they say it is because we are blacks, our government don’t care for us and our government can’t do anything to them.

“The only reason many of us have not committed suicide is the hope of being transferred some day to our home country. Some countries such as Ethopia, Senegal, Iran, Jordan, Colombia and Yemen have started taking their citizens back home and we believe the Nigerian embassy is fully aware of our plights but has refused to take any action.

“We are made to work long hours in factory every day without any salary being paid to us. Yet, we are not well-fed. The only thing left for them to do is to exterminate us or put us in the gas chamber just as the Nazis did to the Jewish people.”

An online report on Dong-guan’s prison system in 2013 claimed that of the 5,000 inmates in the jail on Xinzhou Island in Dong-guan’s Shijie Village, there are about 1,500 foreign nationals from 53 countries. Most of them are there for drug-related crimes.

Also, according to another news report on the Dong-guan prison, electrocution, beatings and suicide are part of everyday life.

Danny Cancian, a New Zealand national, was released from the jail last year, and was quoted in an article as saying for the four years he spent locked up in Dong-guan, a stint during which he didn’t see the sun or the stars, “there were people hanging themselves every week. They had to take all the wire clothe lines out of the cells,” he said.

Based on his account, six days of every week, prisoners would be marched at 5:00a.m. to a factory next door to the prison — after a breakfast of rice water — where they would work until 8:00p.m..

http://guardian.ng/news/over-2000-nigerians-dying-in-chinese-prisons/

To those quick to turn this into tribalistic affair. Shame on you all.

People's lives are at stake here. We hope the Nigerian government can help.

One naija.

naija01:
To those quick to turn this into tribalistic affair. Shame on you all.

People's lives are at stake here. We hope the Nigerian government can help.

One naija.

Are you scared of Name Checkers Association of one Nigeria?
Tell your bros to come back for the real hustle & comfort zone is here in naija.

Stay away from crime and drugs...

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naija01:
To those quick to turn this into tribalistic affair. Shame on you all.

People's lives are at stake here. We hope the Nigerian government can help.

One naija.

Sir u carry drugs to a country with death penalty...should I care what happens to you when caught?

Sorry but I don't care about nigerians who traffic drugs or other banned substances.

Like the christian apostle Paul said, when you're in Rome acting like the Romans...meaning behave urself.

I can't be in a foreign land and partake in any sort of illegal venture , why?

Cos foreign nationals are used like "POW" they won't release u unless your govt makes some concessions that's why many govts leave their citizens to rot in foreign jails unless the individual is 'important' or media frenzy puts the spotlight on him, forcing govt to act.

Sad

No, i particularly don't care about Nigerians who involved themselves in illegal activists abroad if they are kill or in prison, why will they not obey the countries law? I believe there are lot of legal jobs that they do and be better people for themselves. Please CHINA, MALAYSIA, INDONESIA and SINGAPORE kill all of them that involved themselves in DRUGS fast.

Ok

Nawa oo.... This is serious

See what greed has done to developers, CRIME DOES NOT PAY.
Let them bear the pains ' cause no one send them.

The Nigerian gentleman in the above picture appears to be in disagreement with the terms of his invitation for a chat where he would be educated about Chinese law.

Not to worry, all those who wind up stopping a hot round to the head, after getting apprehended smuggling Class A drugs into China, can at least rest assured that thanks to the miracle of organ harvesting as practiced on executed prisoners in China, their manhood will live on with a new grateful owner, even after they have joined their ancestors at the killing ground.