How such a narrow-minded bigot got to reprent one of the world most diverse countries in one of the world's most cosmopolital cities is a mystery. We really have a long way to go.
I am from Arondizuogu and a member of the APUNCNA. Three of the victims were my blood relatives. I was at the said convention in New York and hugged yet another would-be victim minutes before the accident. I am now the chair of the national organizing committee -- APUNCNA Izuogu Five Committee -- set up by the APUNCNA to cordinate fundraising toward arrangements for the accident victims.
We have been wondering why, despite the fact the tragegy was reported relatively widely in the media, there has not been any response from the Nigerian mission. We know now.
Nigerians, like this consul general ought to realize that being responsible and demonstrating genuine compassion is a more effective way of demonstrating religious commitment than rabid sectarian representations. If this is the mindset Mr. Habu brings to his job, he should be recalled.
One minor correction: It is easy to mistake Nnamdi Akamnonu as the chairman of Arondizuogu Progressive Union National Congress of North America because he is the immediate past chairman, but as his letter to the consul general makes clear, he is the chair of the Local Organizing Committee in the New York area; he is not the president/chairman of the APUNCNA.
G. Ugo Nwokeji
Consul-General of Nigeria: "I'm a Muslim, I Can Never Enter a Church"
"I'm a Muslim, I can never enter a Church," so said the Consul-General of Nigeria in New York, Mr. Habib Abba Habu, responding to complaints from Nigerians that the Consulate never responded to the deaths of five Nigerians in a tragic and ghastly accident on the 21st of July, 2012. The accident had rocked the consciousness of Americans throughout the country by its sheer ghastliness and tragedy that claimed the lives of three women and two children in New York.
When we started getting complaints that the Nigerian Consulate-General in New York did not once react to this tragedy, did not visit the surviving accident victims at the hospital, never replied to a letter from the President of the Arondizuogu Patriotic Union National Congress of North America (An Umbrella union of all Arondizuogu people – an Igbo ethnic group) resident in the North America, nor did they send anybody to the wake-keeping on Friday, July 10, in the Bronx, New York, I decided to get the Nigerian Consul-General, Mr. Habib Abba Habu, to respond to the allegations. (Read more) --
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