Many talented and brilliant Nigerians have had their
promising future ruined by their desperation to seek
greener pastures abroad. Some of them who quit thriving
jobs at home end up doing menial jobs abroad with
several others becoming fugitives in the long run,
GBENGA ADERANTI reports.
Henry was a top insurance broker in Nigeria before he migrated to
the United Kingdom (UK) for greener pastures on the crest of Highly
Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) visa. As a top flight insurance
broker, he had everything going for him—decent accommodation,
fairly good car, reward for good performance and opportunity to
rise to higher positions in his organisation. But all that, for the
young man, was inadequate.
He had read about how well insurance brokers are paid abroad and
imagined how his life would change if he travelled out and earn a
salary which when converted to naira would turn him into an instant
millionaire. To actualise his dream, he quit his job and left for the
UK with a promise to people he left behind that he would soon
begin to send cars and hard currency to them.
On getting g to the UK, he tried his best to secure a job similar to
the one he was doing in Nigeria but he could not get any. He found
himself sweating in the cold temperature of the UK as he found
himself unfit for the system. In the end, a friend got him a job as a
security officer with a small private firm. Unfortunately, the pay was
not enough for him to renew his HSMP visa even though it was
better than what he earned in Nigeria.
In the end, the Home Office (HO) gave him 72 hours to leave the
UK. But rather than comply, he simply changed his residential
address and carried on with his job without informing his employer
about the change in his staying status.
A friend to Henry said: “The HO Police went to the office of the
security company where he worked after a deportation order was
issued and a call was made to him to report in the office
immediately. But someone in the office tipped him off about the
presence of the police, so he managed to escape deportation.
“He was lucky to be off duty at the time the police visited.
Otherwise, he would have been arrested and deported after serving
a jail term for working without permit. His predicament has since
caused him to go underground, looking for menial jobs and begging
for charity.”
Yet as far as the young Nigerian was concerned, it was better to
remain a wanderer in the UK than return to Nigeria empty handed
to be taunted by friends and relations.
Like Henry, Bukky, an experienced nurse in a government owned
hospital in Lagos, also quit her job to travel to the UK on the HSMP
visa obtained with the help of a relative who qualified in the UK as
a medical doctor.
As a nurse, she had read and heard how much her services would
be needed and rewarded abroad. Without wasting time, she saved
enough money and obtained a working visa. With the HSMP visa
conditions, she was tied to four year visa with her employer – at
Camberwell.
A friend of hers said: “In order to change her visa to permanent stay
without restrictions, she needed to prove to the Home Office that
she’s now ‘settled’ in the UK. As a result, she travelled back to
Nigeria to arrange a marriage with an old boyfriend. All the
expenses were borne by her.
“She subsequently obtained a visa for the ‘hubby’ and both of them
travel to the UK, but the man could not get a job immediately. At a
point the man became bored and started having affairs all over the
place, flirting and visiting so many dating sites.
“Of course, their marriage crumbled, only for Bukky to realise that
the husband actually had another wife and a child in Nigeria to
whom he had been sending money to regularly from Bukky’s bank
account.
“Bukky literally went ‘mental’. She lost her pregnancy and has not
been herself since. She’s now recovering in a psychiatric home
while the whereabouts of the husband is unknown.
“The only good thing is that the Home Office has allowed her to
stay in the UK permanently without any restrictions, and she is now
waiting to become a full UK citizen. Will she ever go back to
Nigeria? I doubt that very much. Not for another husband anyway.”
Bukky’s friend also shared the story of two Nigerian ladies who
travelled to the UK on six-month tourist visas that could not be
renewed.
She said: “Many Nigerians allow their tourist visas to expire without
leaving the UK. And knowing that without their old passport the
Nigerian Embassy in the UK, by law, cannot issue them ETC
(emergency travelling certificate), they burn their passports and
clone the identities of legal UK residents that they know. As things
stand, many of them may not be able to visit their home country
again.
“But the most tragic thing is that many of them are suffering and
are at the mercy of other Nigerians in the Diaspora who have
turned them into slaves of sorts. This is the story many Nigerians
abroad would not tell their family members at home. To compound
their problems, some embassies and high commission offices are
not making things easy.”
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it is not a bad idea to leave where you're born to a new
place in search of greener pastures.
Even in Nigeria, many of us have left where we're born for a new state or city.
As we are urging the diasporas to represent us well, we are also
begging those at home to be honest with those who entrust you
with their hard earned money.

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Anything you can do to avoid deportation to this shithole please do. It's better to be a slave in a saner clime than being a prince in a zoo.

Anigreat:







Anything you can do to avoid deportation to this shithole please do. It's better to be a slave in a saner clime than being a prince in a zoo.

But don't deny others the opportunity you have by engaging in illicit
or heinous acts that could tarnish the name of our innocent country

As some are leaving, some are preparing to return home which is why many will send money home for people to build them a befitting house. Now, the onus of developing Nigeria lies on those who are in the country, saying we must savage this country.

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