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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by voltron14: 8:34pm On Nov 19, 2023
Na them.
grin

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by paramakina202: 8:47pm On Nov 19, 2023
This prof na real mumu man.He allowed himself to be deceived by the likes of Uwazuruike and his boy MNK.Where he wan start from now?
Now he will realise there is no country called Biafra anywhere in this world.

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Nicepoker(m): 8:50pm On Nov 19, 2023
pandoragirigory:
She got served hot blistering breakfast for been stupid, full of hatred, anguish and bitterness, well, she is a biafrans, her developer's citizenship in the land of criminals and criminality cannot be revoke
She? Where. It is (being stupid). Not been stupid. Who was your English teacher grin

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by crisubanijunior(m): 8:50pm On Nov 19, 2023
…let him join his Prime Minister in Finland😉

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Nicepoker(m): 8:53pm On Nov 19, 2023
thesicilian:
First you list your wife as your sister.
Then you get married to a foreigner, get citizenship and divorce just a few years after.
Then you bring back your Nigerian wife (whom you previously listed as your sister!) to the same country, while allowing her to attach her original marriage certificate.


How can a professor of Economics be thinking like an uneducated bricklayer?
He economized his senses. Don't blame him too much grin

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Deebami: 8:59pm On Nov 19, 2023
Melezenawii:
STRANDED: Professor, who renounced Nigerian citizenship, expelled from his new country

Mr Ijeoma arrived in South Africa in 1998 to study at the University of Pretoria. He is now accused of bigamy

Having earlier renounced his Nigerian citizenship, Edwin Ijeoma, a professor of public sector economics at the University of Fort Hare, was left in the cold after his South African citizenship was revoked by the country’s ministry of home affairs. He is now stateless.

Mr Ijeoma, who arrived in South Africa from Nigeria on a study permit in 1998 to study at the University of Pretoria, was found guilty of fraudulently relying on a bigamous marriage to a South African woman to obtain citizenship by naturalization, local media Times Live reported.

The don was granted permanent residency in the southern African country the same year he graduated from the University of Pretoria, after being exempted from immigration restrictions due to his marriage to a local woman two years earlier.

By 2005, the academic, who obtained a PhD in economics in 2003, was granted South African citizenship through naturalisation, but in 2007 he divorced his South African wife, ostensibly because the couple was unable to conceive a child, according to Times.

Thereafter, the newspaper added, he was joined in South Africa by a Nigerian woman, Anne Tomo, who, in her application for permanent residence, attached a copy of her 1993 marriage to him in Nigeria, tipping off home affairs officials that Mr Ijeoma had committed bigamy.

Officials said on both occasions when Mr Ijeoma made submissions to immigration authorities in South Africa, when he was asked to indicate an immediate family member still residing in Nigeria, he listed Anne Ijeoma as his sister – not his wife.

Officials held that Mr Ijeoma’s sole mission in marrying the South African woman was to acquire citizenship, and he has now had his citizenship revoked by the ministry of home affairs.

The verdict followed a suit he filed against the home affairs ministry before the Bhisho high court.

The court’s acting judge, Mickey Mfenyana, upheld the initial judgment from 2020 which found Mr Ijeoma guilty of falsifying his marital status to the department, thereby making his South African citizenship null and void.

The judge further held that her ruling cannot be appealed, adding that another court will not differ from her finding as Mr Ijeoma “was disingenuous, if not dishonest, and that there was no reason to interfere with the minister’s decision.”

Ms Mfenyana further held that Mr Ijeoma had presented contradictory reasons for his bigamous actions.

“That as an African man, he believed he was entitled to marry more than one wife; and that he represented himself as single because he was not aware that South Africa recognised customary marriages,” Times quoted Ms Mfenyana as saying.

The judge noted that Mr Ijeoma concealed his marriage in Nigeria from officials on three occasions: when he applied for permanent residence in South Africa, when he got married in the country and when he applied for citizenship.

That, the judge held, was highly improbable for an academic, “who by his own admission is of good and sound mind and an intellectual giant,” to have remained “ignorant of the implications of not disclosing his Nigerian marriage” throughout his stay in the country and his encounters with immigration matters.

In defence, Mr Ijeoma told the court he obtained a permanent residence permit because of his “good and sound character” rather than his marriage to the South African woman.

He argued that the human affairs ministry failed to consider his intellectual contribution to the country as a result of his research as an academic, and his role at the Africa Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), where, according to his LinkedIn profile, he is a pioneer research specialist.

Ms Mfenyana rebuffed this saying it was stated in the exemption certificate he got that marriage was the basis for his exemption. She also recalled that in 2015, Mr Ijeoma pleaded to home affairs to have compassion on him, that he obtained citizenship by naturalisation as a result of the marriage

https://twitter.com/36Kinniun/status/1726187905255666140

If you think you are cunningly smart, you will end up outsmarting yourself.

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Elliotwaveforec: 9:17pm On Nov 19, 2023
Stupid man! How can you renounce the citizenship of your country of origin? These people sha!

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by HugeElephant(f): 9:27pm On Nov 19, 2023
thesicilian:
First you list your wife as your sister.
Then you get married to a foreigner, get citizenship and divorce just a few years after.
Then you bring back your Nigerian wife (whom you previously listed as your sister!) to the same country, while allowing her to attach her original marriage certificate.


How can a professor of Economics be thinking like an uneducated bricklayer?


He got the idea from the Bible. Father Abraham is his role model

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by abdeefggh: 9:35pm On Nov 19, 2023
Always looking for shortcuts

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by pricklewane: 9:42pm On Nov 19, 2023
It can only be an ipob obidient, you need to be foolish to that extent to be an ipob obidient


thesicilian:
First you list your wife as your sister.
Then you get married to a foreigner, get citizenship and divorce just a few years after.
Then you bring back your Nigerian wife (whom you previously listed as your sister!) to the same country, while allowing her to attach her original marriage certificate.


How can a professor of Economics be thinking like an uneducated bricklayer?

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by pricklewane: 9:45pm On Nov 19, 2023
Does that negate how foolish the Dr Ijeoma fool is.


CJStarz:
This is an old news?

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by CJStarz: 9:47pm On Nov 19, 2023
pricklewane:
Does that negate how foolish the Dr Ijeoma fool is.


No sir

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Pristine664: 9:53pm On Nov 19, 2023
Aonkuuse:
I know say e go be people from that side

grin

He will quickly rush back to get Nigerian citizenship. grin

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by PHAYOL81: 9:55pm On Nov 19, 2023
He played the game totally wrong. SCAM

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Pepperdemisback: 9:55pm On Nov 19, 2023
He should join their Online country.

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Raskimonojendor: 10:01pm On Nov 19, 2023
I am sure he has Biafria passport. grin

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by YorubaDemonswag: 10:05pm On Nov 19, 2023
He has nothing to worry about,our online country will accommodate him

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by youngrichnigga: 10:07pm On Nov 19, 2023
Kasala don burst shocked shocked shocked

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by AndroBlaze: 10:09pm On Nov 19, 2023
Melezenawii:
STRANDED: Professor, who renounced Nigerian citizenship, expelled from his new country

Mr Ijeoma arrived in South Africa in 1998 to study at the University of Pretoria. He is now accused of bigamy

Having earlier renounced his Nigerian citizenship, Edwin Ijeoma, a professor of public sector economics at the University of Fort Hare, was left in the cold after his South African citizenship was revoked by the country’s ministry of home affairs. He is now stateless.

Mr Ijeoma, who arrived in South Africa from Nigeria on a study permit in 1998 to study at the University of Pretoria, was found guilty of fraudulently relying on a bigamous marriage to a South African woman to obtain citizenship by naturalization, local media Times Live reported.

The don was granted permanent residency in the southern African country the same year he graduated from the University of Pretoria, after being exempted from immigration restrictions due to his marriage to a local woman two years earlier.

By 2005, the academic, who obtained a PhD in economics in 2003, was granted South African citizenship through naturalisation, but in 2007 he divorced his South African wife, ostensibly because the couple was unable to conceive a child, according to Times.

Thereafter, the newspaper added, he was joined in South Africa by a Nigerian woman, Anne Tomo, who, in her application for permanent residence, attached a copy of her 1993 marriage to him in Nigeria, tipping off home affairs officials that Mr Ijeoma had committed bigamy.

Officials said on both occasions when Mr Ijeoma made submissions to immigration authorities in South Africa, when he was asked to indicate an immediate family member still residing in Nigeria, he listed Anne Ijeoma as his sister – not his wife.

Officials held that Mr Ijeoma’s sole mission in marrying the South African woman was to acquire citizenship, and he has now had his citizenship revoked by the ministry of home affairs.

The verdict followed a suit he filed against the home affairs ministry before the Bhisho high court.

The court’s acting judge, Mickey Mfenyana, upheld the initial judgment from 2020 which found Mr Ijeoma guilty of falsifying his marital status to the department, thereby making his South African citizenship null and void.

The judge further held that her ruling cannot be appealed, adding that another court will not differ from her finding as Mr Ijeoma “was disingenuous, if not dishonest, and that there was no reason to interfere with the minister’s decision.”

Ms Mfenyana further held that Mr Ijeoma had presented contradictory reasons for his bigamous actions.

“That as an African man, he believed he was entitled to marry more than one wife; and that he represented himself as single because he was not aware that South Africa recognised customary marriages,” Times quoted Ms Mfenyana as saying.

The judge noted that Mr Ijeoma concealed his marriage in Nigeria from officials on three occasions: when he applied for permanent residence in South Africa, when he got married in the country and when he applied for citizenship.

That, the judge held, was highly improbable for an academic, “who by his own admission is of good and sound mind and an intellectual giant,” to have remained “ignorant of the implications of not disclosing his Nigerian marriage” throughout his stay in the country and his encounters with immigration matters.

In defence, Mr Ijeoma told the court he obtained a permanent residence permit because of his “good and sound character” rather than his marriage to the South African woman.

He argued that the human affairs ministry failed to consider his intellectual contribution to the country as a result of his research as an academic, and his role at the Africa Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), where, according to his LinkedIn profile, he is a pioneer research specialist.

Ms Mfenyana rebuffed this saying it was stated in the exemption certificate he got that marriage was the basis for his exemption. She also recalled that in 2015, Mr Ijeoma pleaded to home affairs to have compassion on him, that he obtained citizenship by naturalisation as a result of the marriage

https://twitter.com/36Kinniun/status/1726187905255666140

To make matters worse, the same "brilliant" mind was also caught for using a fake MBA to get admission to do his PhD !! To think his brothers and sisters are the one who want to sacrifice Tinubu over his certificate cheesy


https://www.kossyderrickent.com/2023/04/forensic-investigation-company-advises.html?m=1

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Raskimonojendor: 10:11pm On Nov 19, 2023
AndroBlaze:


To make matters worse, the same "brilliant" mind was also caught for using a fake MBA to get admission to do his PhD !! To think his brothers and sisters are the one who want to sacrifice Tinubu over his certificate cheesy


https://www.kossyderrickent.com/2023/04/forensic-investigation-company-advises.html?m=1
They will still find a way to blame Tinubu for this man's misfortune.

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Pristine664: 10:17pm On Nov 19, 2023
Aonkuuse:
I know say e go be people from that side

Funny enough, he will quickly acquire Nigerian citizenship again so that he can process another country from Nigeria. grin

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Pristine664: 10:24pm On Nov 19, 2023
aQUINandmore:
Wahala Promax.
Na now baba go know the importance of the country him and his brodas love to call zoo.

He can't get common visiting visa to another country except he first rush back to acquire Nigerian citizenship with beg. grin

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Pristine664: 10:26pm On Nov 19, 2023
crisubanijunior:
…let him join his Prime Minister in Finland😉

With what Passport?? grin

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by ThrustReverser(m): 10:30pm On Nov 19, 2023
Where them wan deport this go now?
Make them send am to space.

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Abbeytoy(m): 10:33pm On Nov 19, 2023
What then will happen to him?

If needs to be deported, to which country?

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Pristine664: 10:35pm On Nov 19, 2023
ThrustReverser:
Where them wan deport this go now?
Make them send am to space.

They may or may not deport him but he can only live like a fugitive for the rest of his life except he goes back to Nigeria to acquire the citizenship again (with apologies), obtain Nigerian passport and travel to another country.

He needs Nigerian passport to live legally in any country right now.

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Pristine664: 10:40pm On Nov 19, 2023
Abbeytoy:
What then will happen to him?

If needs to be deported, to which country?

He's now a foreigner with criminal record in South Africa, SA can decide to deport him to where he came from (Nigeria ) where he can only live like a foreigner as well.

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Benwallt(m): 10:42pm On Nov 19, 2023
thesicilian:
First you list your wife as your sister.
Then you get married to a foreigner, get citizenship and divorce just a few years after.
Then you bring back your Nigerian wife (whom you previously listed as your sister!) to the same country, while allowing her to attach her original marriage certificate.


How can a professor of Economics be thinking like an uneducated bricklayer?


It's reserved for his tribe. Don't blame him blame his upbringing

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by NewDea4: 10:42pm On Nov 19, 2023
Igbo kwenu!

Bushmeat don pin Hunter for corner

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Bhella5(m): 10:45pm On Nov 19, 2023
Aonkuuse:
I know say e go be people from that side
it can only be a chest beater. They should deport and donate him to sambisa forest for sacrifice grin

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Re: Edwin Ijeoma Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From South Africa by Raskimonojendor: 10:45pm On Nov 19, 2023
Abbeytoy:
What then will happen to him?

If needs to be deported, to which country?
He is almost a walking corpse. If he falls sick, he won't be given access to healthcare, he can't work except under the table cash jobs - slavery, he can't register with any bank, he can't get a mobile phone service, he can't get an internet service provider, he can't sign up for electricity or water e.t.c. He basically doesn't exist in any system. He is like an ilegal immigrant but much worse.

Because south Africa is in Africa, they would likely bound him up in chains and dump him in his country of origin.

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