Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 'We are not criminals' Nigerians tell their president

WHAT BUHARI SAID:

In an interview with the Telegraph newspaper, President Muhammadu Buhari said that Nigerians abroad have "made it difficult for Europeans and Americans to accept them because of the number of Nigerians in prisons all over the world accused of drug trafficking or human trafficking. We have an image problem abroad," he said. "And we are on our way to salvage that. We will encourage our countrymen to stay at home, work hard and make a respectable living at home."

Spinning this as the President calling all Nigerians abroad as criminals is mischievous.

Cheers.

IBK

On 9 Feb 2016 18:28, "olakassimmd via USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 

 

Dear All:

 

The Nigerian protesters are not criminals;

their only problem is they can't comprehend

written or spoken English language very well..

 

President Buhari did not refer to Nigerians residing

and working abroad as criminals.

 

What he did was to acknowledge in open forum that

that there are too many of us in jail in foreign

countries. This is an undisputable fact.

 

Even though one can protest and refuse to acknowledge the truth,

such denial is unlikely to change the truth into falsehood.

 

The first step in the healing process is to accept that one has

a problem. The rest follows in a short order!

 

Instead of protesting Diaspora Nigerians should be acknowledging

the truth and brainstorming amongst ourselves to find solutions to a

 pervasive problem

which is giving Nigeria a bad name throughout the world.

 

Bye,

 

Ola

 

 

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'We are not criminals' Nigerians tell their president

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