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Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by chyz(m): 10:29pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
[size=18pt]‘Nigerian soldiers fathered 250,000 kids in Liberia’[/size] From JAMES OJO, Abuja Thursday, July 22, 2010 Nigerian soldiers who served in the ECOWAS monitoringgroup (ECOMOG) peace-keeping force during Liberia’s fatricidal war fathered over 250,000 children in that country. Director-General of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa (DTCA), Dr. Sule Yakubu Bassi, who made the revelation to the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, urged the lawmakers to prepare to visit Monrovia on the issue. At an interactive session with the committee, led by Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa yesterday, Dr Bassi said over 250,000 children had been born to soldiers, who participated in the ECOMOG operations from Nigeria. He stated that records showed that the oldest of the abandoned children was 16 years. The ECOWAS Monitoring Group was formed by the regime of Ibrahim Babangida as the military president as an intervention force to restore peace in war-torn Liberia in 1990. What was worrisome, according to him, was that majority of the children did not know their fathers, while their mothers had been making frantic efforts to locate the fathers of their children, most of whom had returned to Nigeria. “The mothers are trying to make sure they (children) are properly documented as Nigerian Liberian and so on,” he said. The DTCA boss revealed that the Committee on Diaspora had agreed to undertake a visit to Liberia on a fact-finding mission, because the matter was outside the purview of the directorate. “We deal with matters relating to people above 40 years, but I can tell you that our Embassy in Liberia is handling issues like this. “Hon. Dabiri-Erewa is going to undertake a trip to Liberia to find out what is happening; how we can engage with them and the like, as a government; we can’t run away fromour people; they are our people; they are still young and they need schooling and they will also need to be nurtured just like every other Nigerians,” he said. Apart from the abandoned children in Liberia, Bassi also told the committee that there were 17 million Nigerians in Diaspora. He informed the House that the directorate had a data base capturing Nigerians, who are experts in various fields, adding that a consortium of Nigerian engineers were currently building a rail line in Baghdad, Iraq. Meanwhile, the Nigerian community in Gabon has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to visit the country. The request was made by the president of the community, Mr Babatunde Yekini, when he led a delegation to the Committee on Diaspora. He stated that such a visit would improve the relationship between Gabon and Nigeria and also douse the tension building up over allegations that Nigerians were encouraging illegal immigrants. Yekini told the committee that there were 10,860 legal immigrants and over 200,000 illegal immigrants registered with the community, adding that more illegal immigrants were entering Gabon through Nigerian waterways in Oron, Eket Ibino and James Town. Mrs Dabiri-Erewa assured Nigerians in Gabon that the Federal Government would look into their requests and urged them to conduct themselves within the ambit of the law. She asked them to take advantage of their numerical strength to further improve the relationship between Nigeria and Gabon. She also assured the DTCA that the issue of children fathered by Nigerian soldiers would be looked into. http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/july/22/national-07-22-2010-001.htm |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 10:31pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
Oh my! Was tht what they sent them to Liberia to do? 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by chyz(m): 10:34pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
Instead of these bastards! to protect our African women these worthless animals go and disgrace them!!!!!!!!!! 2 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by tpiah: 10:34pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
these will replace the nigerians who are comfortably ensconced overseas no doubt. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by EzeUche(m): 10:34pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
Chei! We Naija guys are too much. Rather we spread love then hate. lol |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 10:39pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
chyz:
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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by bkbabe90(m): 10:48pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
I'd say the amount of children born to the soldiers has been grossly exaggerated! I Googled how many Standing soldiers Nigeria had in its Army, and how was sent to Liberia for peace keeping efforts and I reached this conclusion : EVEN IF EVERY SINGLE NIGERIAN SOLDIER THAT SERVED IN THAT COUNTRY GOT A WOMAN PREGNANT, THEY STILL WOULDNT AMOUNT TO 250,00 FATHERLESS KIDS RUNNING AROUND IN LIBERIA TODAY!!! |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 10:51pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
^^^ If you know Nigerian men, you'd rather be wondering about how much was SUBTRACTED from that number. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by DisGuy: 10:56pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
In other words these Soldier 'raepd' women they are meant to be protecting at will they are just trying to twist the story like we got some missing people needing child benefits The Liberians are looking to get these people prosecuted, the nigerian are looking to get some cash off the govt to set up another commission/database etc etc |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 10:57pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
Ileke-IdI:ki lode now.nigerian men are not that bad besides they are not the only peacekeepers in the mission 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 10:59pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
~Bluetooth:Ashewo oniranu ni gbogbo yin. obo nukan le moh ndo. Se obo na ni ki e lo de ni Liberia? I'm sure that 200,000 of those men were Yoruba men. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 11:03pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
Ileke-IdI:iwo lady yi, nigeria men are very discipline.please,dont doubt us 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by EzeUche(m): 11:03pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
Ileke-Idi, I was going to say that, but I did not want to be labeled a tribalist. Thank you for writing what I was thinking. But most likely they were Hausa, due to the large numbers of Hausa soldiers in the military. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 11:04pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
~Bluetooth: Right. . . . Look at politic section. EzeUche:No problem. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 11:08pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
what happened to politics section ? |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 11:09pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
~Bluetooth:Nigerian men displaying their "discipline" Atlest EzeUche is trying to change. Not sure whose bribing him tho |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by dayokanu(m): 11:20pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
They could have had genuine relationships with the women. But had to leave after war. If it was r@pe, I doubt the victim would know if they were Nigerians or not. "My people say wey car jam no dey pick plate number" |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 11:23pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
Ileke-IdI:most of them only make noise here. . . . you will be surprise when you meet them one on one and they would gentle as water. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 11:25pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
~Bluetooth:lol Like me. . . . Gentle like a lily in a pond |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by chyz(m): 11:26pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
Nigerian soldiers were made to leave sudan a few years ago for raping their women. Black African people who are being killed of by African Arabs. These are who you choose to disgrace. I dont understand these people that are in the Nigerian army, bush people. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 11:29pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
Ileke-IdI:iwo ironlady. . . you be like ileke idi,always unstable |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by dayokanu(m): 11:35pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
chyz: The Soviet soldiers r@ped German women after the WW2 way back in 1945. Its a general military problem not peculiar to Nigeria Sometime back I heard some American soldiers r@ped Iraqis |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by DisGuy: 11:37pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
dayokanu: if they had genuine relationship they would have been back to get them except you mean regular ashewo I think Nigerian army had the largest number in Liberia/sierra Leone, and [s]most african women can smell a nigerian miles away what with their loud gra gra[/s] Nigerians are a different breed they will know! |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by dayokanu(m): 11:40pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
By genuine i mean they dated and not raped. Of course most women would jump at the opportunity to date a soldier during war, at least for the security. The oldest of those kids should be older than 16 maybe like 20 because Liberia war started like 1989 iirc |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 11:46pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
dayokanu: Los Angeles, Alta California - May 6, 2004 - (ACN) The recent apology by President George Bush to the Iraqi people is not sufficient to undo the horrible pillage and rape of Iraqi women and girls that took place during the early days of the US occupation of Baghdad. There is some evidence that the invading US forces were provided with amphetamines and pornographic materials to incite their thorough ravaging of Baghdad.maybe we shouldnt blame our soldiers much afterall since the us soldiers too do commit such atrocities.it's a military thing. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Kobojunkie: 11:47pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
dayokanu: Oh Please stop it!! Genuine relationships my foot!!! lol Like you yourself posted, ra-pe is a problem, and I say this should be investigated. If it is found out that some of our soldiers despoiled these women, I hope they be humiliated and made to face the same. ~Bluetooth: I don't believe what I am reading here . /. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 11:58pm On Jul 21, 2010 |
[quoteI don't believe what I am reading here . /. ] [quote][/quote]better believe it snce there was no law in place to charge military personnel that commit r a p e during war,that is why most of them do commit it.it takes more than reporting by human right group to tackle r a p e in times of war. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Kobojunkie: 12:00am On Jul 22, 2010 |
~Bluetooth: Where did you get this from? Are you sure or just assuming because we did nothing means there are none? Rape during war is a war crime. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Nobody: 12:09am On Jul 22, 2010 |
Kobojunkie:in a country that do not have a substantial law against r a p e,what do you expect from her military.the nigeria army is a discipline organisation and if there is such law,it wont take a twinkle of an eye before sanction is meted out to offenders.trust me |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by Kobojunkie: 12:12am On Jul 22, 2010 |
~Bluetooth: That is a misconception. Nigeria has some really good laws against rape. We have very good laws . . . even against child abuse and pedophilia. Only we choose NOT to implement them, especially because EGOS are usually involved. |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by dayokanu(m): 12:25am On Jul 22, 2010 |
Kobojunkie: You mean they cant date Nigerian soldiers? My own thinking is that if your are raped, there is a high chance you wont know the nationalties of the attackers as he wont come there wearing a Naija flag. Tell me if someone was raped in Chicago by a white male, would she know if the attacker is a Slavic descendant or from the Irish. Would she know if he is from California or from NJ. Most likely her report would be that he is around 30, M blond etc and this kind of description fits all Africans The situation was probably the soldiers made friends with their host community. The Liquors seller, the high sch chic, the market woman, They were just toasting them. The girls too felt thats an avenue to get out of war torn Liberia. The soldiers were abruptly posted from Liberia and the girlfriends had kids for them |
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fathered 250,000 Kids In Liberia by spoilt(f): 12:27am On Jul 22, 2010 |
dayokanu: Girlfriends?? Funny way to put it. Wars and R!a!p!e!s go together |
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