Nigerians In Spain Condemn Spanish Police Shooting of African Immigrants On The High Sea
It was a day that has generated global uproar when on Thursday the 6th
of February 2014, the Spanish local border police opened fire on some
200 sub-Sahara African immigrants who were calling for rescue as they
were attempting to cross the high sea from Morocco into the Spanish
border town of Ceuta. So far, reports show that not less than 14 bodies
have been recovered from the water and each of them with bullet wounds.
Describing the action as grave ‘inhumanity’, the Northern Observatory
for Human Rights condemned the shooting as an action that ‘‘violates the
international conventions on human rights".
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On the part of the Nigerian Community in Madrid and Spain, the action
has been condemned in the clearest of terms. In a press release after an
emergency meeting of the Leaders of the Nigerian Communities in Madrid
at the instance of the Nigerian Nationals Association, the President of
the Association Comrade Lamptay Oriakhi described the action as a
‘premeditated act of wickedness’. He added his voice to the Socialist
Party’s call for the resignation of all those directly and indirectly
responsible for such inhuman act. He informed that while effort is being
made by the Association to determine the number of Nigerians involved,
the Association has begun a process of calling the African immigrant
community together for a nationwide wide protest. Meanwhile, the
secretary of the Association Honorable Precious Onuoha affirmed that a
letter has officially been written to the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Nigerian Community’s
disapproval and call for international justice.
While expressing dismay at the actions of the Spanish police, a cross
section of the leaders of the Nigerian communities under the aegis of
the Nigerian Communities Leadership Interactive Forum Madrid expressed
concern over the high state of corruption in Nigeria as a major factor
denying Nigerians employment thereby forcing many into such deadly risk.
The President Comrade Lamptay Oriakhi and the Secretary Honourable
Prescious Onuoha used the medium to call on all Nigerian and African
communities, high commissions and governments to respond to this act of
inhumanity and support its condemnation. posted by Emanto Ngaloru Feb 22, 2014.
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