₦airaland Forum

ambrosze:
For purposes of sharing knowledge, A passport (diplomatic or not) does not directly qualify you to travel to a new country. For a visit, you need a Visa which must be stamped on the passport and as we know each country has varying conditions to be met before Visa are issued.

He might be right that he has been denied Visa to the US but i expect that he still has his diplomatic passport.

CaptJeffry:
Atiku said they denied him US visa?

N0favors:
Well, I was wrong. They said he didn't have visa problem but medical finance

DonPiiko:
Yes there do, but sometimes countries passport are looked down upon. Nigeria happens to fall into such a category, Atiku is a fugitive as far as the United States is concerned, once he sets foots there he will be arrested, if a serving congress man of a developed country can be jailed, what's the big deal in jailing a former vice president of a developing country, who perpetuated corrupt acts.

Ugosample:
You cannot arrest one with diplomatic passport

It's a travesty

adisabarber:
Diplomatic passport does not cover medical costs

peak115:
Praesident Muhammadu Buhari was banned from entering the United States because Americans had reservations about his religious views, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said Friday.

peak115:
Praesident Muhammadu Buhari was banned from entering the United States because Americans had reservations about his religious views, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said Friday.

Ugosample:
You cannot arrest one with diplomatic passport

It's a travesty

DonPiiko:
Yes there do, but sometimes countries passport are looked down upon. Nigeria happens to fall into such a category, Atiku is a fugitive as far as the United States is concerned, once he sets foots there he will be arrested, if a serving congress man of a developed country can be jailed, what's the big deal in jailing a former vice president of a developing country, who perpetuated corrupt acts.

DonPiiko:
Find out why Omar Al Bashir of Sudan doesn't travel, if he does, he already gets the commitment of his host country not to arrest him. African diplomatic passport is just a fancy booklet, nothing more.

CilicMarin:
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You and atiku should shut up! Bloody liars.

bobosydney:
America will still arrest you if commit crime or wanted and don't care if you have diplomatic passport. They locked up the Indian diplomat for few days in prison and New Zealand arrested Malaysia diplomat for rape.

Article 31 : | 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
1. A diplomatic agent shall enjoy immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving State.
He shall also enjoy immunity from its civil and administrative jurisdiction, except in the case of:
(a) A real action relating to private immovable property situated in the territory of the receiving State, unless he holds it on behalf of the sending State for the purposes of the mission;
(b) An action relating to succession in which the diplomatic agent is involved as executor, administrator, heir or legatee as a private person and not on behalf of the sending State;
(c) An action relating to any professional or commercial activity exercised by the diplomatic agent in the receiving State outside his official functions. http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf

DonPiiko:
LaudableXX

linearity:
You can be arrested temporarily by the directive of the State department in the US if you commit a crime of magnitude, while they negotiate with your home country to waive your immunity. Arresting and detaining someone is not the same as prosecuting them...A diplomatic passport only gives you immunity against prosecution and not against arrest.

If your home country refuses, they can kick you out of the country and ban you from entering again, even when you still hold your diplomatic passport.

The host countries still have to maintain the integrity of their laws and an orderly society and not have someone flagrantly disobey the law without recourse, even if they are holding a diplomatic passport.

LaudableXX:
Go back and read my last post slowly, with an open mind. The answers are in there. Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on Diplomatic Relations, is explicit. If Bashir is arrested, his diplomatic passport/status would first have to be cancelled or revoked.

DonPiiko:
If rules were followed, I think General Pierre Bemba of Congo also had a diplomatic passport, but he's in the ICC facing trial, Africa has no leverage so we can be treated with disdain and nothing will happen.

LaudableXX:
Before such diplomats could have been arrested, their countries must have withdrawn their diplomatic passports and/or revoked their diplomatic status. Please read Article 31 which governs diplomats under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

GavelSlam:
That's what the liar Atiku said but there's no such evidence.

After all, many of you claimed his wife was a fraudster that was also running away from the US.