“Nigerians Are Like Cancer” Says Goa Minister in India, as 53 Nigerian Protesters Get Arrested
Two days after the Goa government launched a crackdown on the Nigerian nationals illegally living in Goa, a senior state BJP minister today equated Nigerians as a 'cancer'.
"The Nigerians are like cancer. We are worried what would be the image of Goa for the outside world when the images of Nigerians creating ruckus on the road are showed through television to the world," State Art and Culture Minister Dayanand Mandrekar said.
Around 200 Nigerians had blocked the national highway last week protesting against the drug-related murder of a fellow national. 53 Nigerians had been arrested following the incident.
The minister said that the situations like Nigerians taking on the road will have bad repercussion on the tourism industry of the state on which people from the coastal belt earn their living.
Mandrekar said that timely police action could have saved the highway from being blocked by the Nigerians.
"People have seen on the television how Nigerians forcibly dragged out the corpse from the police van while the policemen remained silent spectators," he said.
The minister also claimed that the drug menace in the state has crossed the limits of coastal belt and has now percolated to the villages.
"You all blame coastal belt for being the hot bed of drugs, but now the scene is different. The narcotics has entered the villages of Goa and sold there," he said refusing to comment whether "the narcotic trade has lessened in the BJP government tenure."
Meanwhile Nigeria’s High Commission issued a diplomatic note and demanded on Tuesday that the security of its nationals be assured. It also called for the immediate arrest of those who killed its citizen.
“We have lost one of our nationals in a cold-blooded murder,” Nigerian High Commission press spokesman Tokunbo Falohun told the Press Trust of India.
“The guilty should be immediately apprehended and brought to justice and they should also compensate the family of the victim,” the envoy said.
India’s foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said in New Delhi that he was sure that the row could be settled “amicably”.
According to Wikipedia, Goa is India's located in West India in the region known as the Konkan, and is India's richest state with a GDP per capita two and a half times that of the country as a whole.
"The Nigerians are like cancer. We are worried what would be the image of Goa for the outside world when the images of Nigerians creating ruckus on the road are showed through television to the world," State Art and Culture Minister Dayanand Mandrekar said.
Around 200 Nigerians had blocked the national highway last week protesting against the drug-related murder of a fellow national. 53 Nigerians had been arrested following the incident.
The minister said that the situations like Nigerians taking on the road will have bad repercussion on the tourism industry of the state on which people from the coastal belt earn their living.
Mandrekar said that timely police action could have saved the highway from being blocked by the Nigerians.
"People have seen on the television how Nigerians forcibly dragged out the corpse from the police van while the policemen remained silent spectators," he said.
The minister also claimed that the drug menace in the state has crossed the limits of coastal belt and has now percolated to the villages.
"You all blame coastal belt for being the hot bed of drugs, but now the scene is different. The narcotics has entered the villages of Goa and sold there," he said refusing to comment whether "the narcotic trade has lessened in the BJP government tenure."
Meanwhile Nigeria’s High Commission issued a diplomatic note and demanded on Tuesday that the security of its nationals be assured. It also called for the immediate arrest of those who killed its citizen.
“We have lost one of our nationals in a cold-blooded murder,” Nigerian High Commission press spokesman Tokunbo Falohun told the Press Trust of India.
“The guilty should be immediately apprehended and brought to justice and they should also compensate the family of the victim,” the envoy said.
India’s foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said in New Delhi that he was sure that the row could be settled “amicably”.
According to Wikipedia, Goa is India's located in West India in the region known as the Konkan, and is India's richest state with a GDP per capita two and a half times that of the country as a whole.
“Nigerians Are Like Cancer” Says Goa Minister in India, as 53 Nigerian Protesters Get Arrested
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This is horrible, Nigeria and its bad reputation everywhere. Is not like we don't have good, smart people. We really need to change the perspective people have about us.
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