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We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by Nobody: 2:18pm On May 19, 2021
British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing has said that her country would have been struggling if they had only one of Nigeria’s problems.

Announcing that the UK government would deny visas to Nigerians who incite violence and want to disrupt 2023 elections, Laing said the ideal candidates for the 2023 Nigerian presidential elections should be youths with females as the Vice Presidential candidates.

Vanguard reported that the British envoy who said this in Port Harcourt on her maiden visit to Rivers State, also cautioned Governor Nyesom Wike and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi to cement their legacies on a positive note by ensuring peaceful 2023 elections in Rivers State.


She said;

I do have some sympathy for Nigeria because if we as UK have one of these problems your country is having today, we will be struggling. Here, you deal with everything, from insurgency to kidnapping, to piracy off the Gulf of Guinea and you don’t have such a large army and police force for a country of this size.

“The only way you turn this thing around is that government has to build the trust of its people, to have the people working with the government to deal with criminality. That’s how successful anti-criminal operations work.

“People willingly report those committing crime, working with police to identify criminals, same with the military on the insurgency situation. It’s only when the community is on the side of the police and security services that they can turn around the situation.

“2023 is not alright. What happens in the elections is very crucial, not just for Nigeria, but Africa to the world. You (Nigeria) are a large democracy.


“It doesn’t have to be a perfect election. There would be problems, but we want it to be better than the last one. We want it to be secure, peaceful, the process should be run well, and you need to get people to register.

“My ideal candidates would be two younger presidential candidates, both with female vice presidential candidates.

“It is essential that there’s a peaceful election in Rivers State. It’s going to be a crucial part of his (Wike) legacy, how the election goes in this state. We’ve been saying the same thing to Amaechi.

“Another thing we will be doing is to remind people that if people do incite violence or act violently, we will be prepared to deny them visas to the UK. We will make that statement clear and say it over again.”

https://fincheshub.com/if-uk-had-just-one-of-the-problems-nigeria-is-facing-we-would-be-struggling-british-high-commissioner/

Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by Vickym1(f): 2:28pm On May 19, 2021
Will there anything like Nigeria in the year 2023 with the way things are going now
Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by Nobody: 2:28pm On May 19, 2021
STFU. Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense.
Nigeria wey you British teach finished yesterday e don die today.
Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by ivolt: 2:30pm On May 19, 2021
Hmmn
Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by ygowon: 2:34pm On May 19, 2021
Vickym1:
Will there anything like Nigeria in the year 2023 with the way things are going now
Na luck everybody dey try. Naija fit scatter before then, e fit still dey. But my prayer is for naija to breakup before then
Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by BKayy: 2:40pm On May 19, 2021
Behold the real ruler of Nigeria

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Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by NwaNimo1(m): 2:49pm On May 19, 2021
Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by Racoon(m): 3:03pm On May 19, 2021
The problem with Nigeria primarily stemmed from the involvement of Britain in our national histroy and their favouritism to foist a joint nationality of the many ethnic groups them with the power equation greatly skewed towards the docile hausa-fulanis.
Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by bigeliot(m): 3:07pm On May 19, 2021
As if the uk cares. What have they done to stop the killings. Obviously Nigeria was cool until headers started their madness. What did they do? Na election concern them. Thunder fire the whole uk government.fools
Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by Vickym1(f): 3:21pm On May 19, 2021
ygowon:
Na luck everybody dey try. Naija fit scatter before then, e fit still dey. But my prayer is for naija to breakup before then
cheesy cheesy cheesy
Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by BbqTormentor: 3:23pm On May 19, 2021
All the problems were created by the politicians and their vulture grilling supporters in order to milk the country of all her wealth
Re: We Would Be Struggling — British High Commissioner by jlinkd78(m): 3:44pm On May 19, 2021
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