{"id":172430,"date":"2025-08-04T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerians-on-death-row-in-indonesia-from-one-state"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:24:23","slug":"nigerians-on-death-row-in-indonesia-from-one-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerians-on-death-row-in-indonesia-from-one-state","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians on Death Row in Indonesia from One State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Chairperson of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said that it is unfair to generalise and attribute a crime committed by a few Nigerians to the whole of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Abike, who was responding to questions on the \u2018Nigeria must go\u2019 protest going on in Ghana, called on the host nation to punish individual offenders and not all Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Her statement comes as a viral video on Tuesday showed a large number of Ghanaians protesting with placards suggesting the deportation of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Abike recalled an incident in Indonesia where 21 Nigerians were put on death row and among them, 20 were from one state in the South East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a few Nigerians have committed crimes on foreign soil, they should be punished and publicly held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is unfair to generalise and attribute that crime to all Nigerians in the region,\u201d she said on Arise News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see, again we are generalizing. Don\u2019t forget that I\u2019ve called people out. We have names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really love calling names, and I\u2019ve said that these so-called Nigerians, let us know them and let them be dealt with. They can\u2019t be anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s the responsibility of the host country, which even the Inspector General of Police of Ghana said. Look, I don\u2019t want to say one tribe. Let us know about them. We are not going to go there and beg for them. The Nigeria embassy in Ghana has been doing a lot actually. \u201cLook, I\u2019ve gone to Ghana. I can\u2019t remember how many times I\u2019ve gone to Ghana. If you remember when we had cases of trafficking, we went to Ghana and brought back these girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019ve been doing that on a regular basis, and it has gone down, and the people behind that have been arrested. Many Nigerians and a few Ghanaians were involved in the trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still going on, but not as much as in the past. So we dealt with it headlong. If you say kidnapping, arrest them and jail them. Lock them up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I mention these things, sometimes this tribe you\u2019re kind of talking about, we say, Oh, is it because it\u2019s us?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, like I said, crime as a federal character. In Indonesia, we had 21 Nigerians on death row. We went to the Indonesia prison and we spoke to them, and we begged them, and they said, our laws will stand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour were executed, and they are still there and then one was saved through the intervention of Barrister Emmanuel, but they are still there. But you know what?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we went into that prison, I\u2019ve said it before, and I said again, 21 of them, 20 were from one state in the southeast 20, the other one was one Edo state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at the same time, that doesn\u2019t mean you should generalize and say everybody in that state is a criminal, and the governor of that state has tackled the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, there are some very good stories. And here\u2019s the problem, it\u2019s only the bad stories that trend. What about those thousands of Nigerians that are developing those countries? What about those thousands of Nigerians that if they leave some countries today, it will affect them, that those are the stories we celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the media is only interested in bad news that trends and is traffic driven. If that, in Ghana, you had 10,000 people come out and say Nigerians are the best. Nobody would talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think that\u2019s just the way it is. Bad news travels fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nigeria\u2019s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has appealed for calm over the matter, noting that there is \u201cno cause for alarm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Demola, said the protest is not against all Nigerians but against some persons with undesirable activities in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the focus is on the tertiary traders and people whom I would describe as probably undesirable to their system, to their economy,\u201d he said in an interview on Arise News.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that in 1983, there was a mass deportation of Ghanaians from Nigeria under former President Shehu Shagari.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Chairperson of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said that it is unfair to generalise and attribute a crime committed by a few Nigerians to the whole of the country. 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