Chat 212 - News Summary...
- FG has been advised to conduct thorough investigation into the attack on Nigerian Embassy and killing of Nigerian in Guinea Bissau.
- Hon. Abike Dabiri- Erewa said Nigerian government should conduct a comprehensive investigation into the incident and perpetrators should be adequately punished.”
Chat 212 - Newsmail Report...
Federal Government has been advised to conduct thorough investigation into the attack on Nigerian Embassy and the lynching of some Nigerians in Guinea Bissau.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Hon. Abike Dabiri- Erewa, gave the advice in a telephone interview with our correspondent yesterday.
She said: “Nigerian government should conduct a comprehensive investigation into the incident and perpetrators should be adequately punished.”
The lawmaker said this should not be like previous investigations which were abandoned.
“It is accepted that the Guinean government has apologised to Nigerians, but the investigation should still go and it should be thorough,” she added.
Dabiri-Erewa said this won’t be the first time such aggressive action was meted out to Nigerians in Guinea Bissau.
She said: “We can recollect that the same country chased out some Nigerian farmers during a land tussle there recently. The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, had to relocate them to Bayelsa State, for them to continue their farming profession.”
Guinea Bissau on Wednesday apologised to Nigeria over the killing of three Nigerians by a mob in Bissau.
The apology was made shortly after Nigeria protested the Tuesday incident to the Guinea Bissau authorities.
Before this, President Goodluck Jonathan had during this week’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to order the Nigerian Ambassador in Guinea Bissau to take up the matter with the authorities of that country.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, told reporters that her Guinea Bissau counterpart personally visited the Nigerian Embassy in Bissau where she tendered the apology.
News agency had reported that the three Nigerians were killed after the disappearance of a young boy on Tuesday morning in Bissau.
Onwuliri said: “The report we have is that aggrieved citizens attacked the Nigerian Embassy with clubs, stones and other dangerous objects. We have protested to the government of Guinea Bissau. Their (government has apologised.
