I have been visiting Nairaland for about 2 years to read about latest events but never posted, however, I saw something embarrassing today and I must share!

I went over to the embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia today to get some documentation but upon getting there, i met a crowd of Nigerians outside gathered in small groups and shouting "Una no dey try for here o".
Getting closer i asked the security man who is from Bangladesh what was going on and he said that Tenaga Nasional, the electricity company of Malaysia came over to disconnect the electricity supply to the embassy because the embassy has refused to pay the bills. At first, it was like a bad joke, or a nightmare however, after 5 minutes, the story checks out. The electricity has been disconnected.

Folks often say it is the Nigerians living abroad that give us a bad image, however, in this case, our government is the culprit.
If you know the protocols involved for a utility company to come into the grounds of a foreign mission and disconnect the supply, u will be embarrassed. The company would have to be cleared by the Malaysian ministry of Foreign affairs which means this has been going on for a while for the foreign affair ministry to even issue Tenaga Nasional a permit to disconnect the power supply to the embassy.

This is truly embarrassing and makes me wonder if this embassies or ambassadors are even accountable to anyone in the first place.

The good part of it is that it portrays exactly what Nigeria looks like!

If diplomats are exempted from tax payment,shouldn't embassies be exempted from utility payment too ? Maybe the vienna protocol of dipomatic immunities didn't see this coming !

If utility is bring provided by a private company, i am sure the Vienna protocol of diplomatic immunities does not cover that

The host government is obligated to make provisions for the success of the embassy.The way you treat some special guests is the same you should treat a diplomat or embassy.The Nigerian embassy in kuala lumpur is a nigerian territory is that country. . .though this issue of private company enterting into an embassy is what I don't really know what to say about.honestly,it's embarrassing.

Typically Nigerian. The day we start telling ourselves the truth, probably change would begin