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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Nigeria's US Consul General Tells Homeless Nigerians In The US To Return Home

The Consul General, CG, of Nigeria in New York, Mr Benaoyagha Okoyen, on Tuesday, advised jobless and homeless Nigerians in the United States to return home, saying that the consulate was ready to assist those willing to return.







Speaking at a conference on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hosted by the consulate in New York, Okoyen disclosed that the provision of accommodation for homeless Nigerians was not part of the consulate’s mandate.


According to him, the best his office can do in such circumstance is to counsel affected persons.


The CG was responding to appeals by some conference participants, who drew his attention to the plight of many Nigerians suffering in the streets of New York and elsewhere in the country.


The consul general, who admitted that many Nigerians were truly suffering, said that only persons living honestly in the US were entitled to consular services in an event of ill treatment.


“When they come to us we always advise them that home is home. It is not part of our mandate to start looking for accommodation for you here.
What we can do is that if you are unjustly treated, we intervene with the relevant authorities to make sure that your right is respected.
And that means that your stay here is legal; you must also not have committed any crime that warrants whatever treatment that you are getting.


“We will at all times intervene in circumstances like that. But the best thing is that if you have nothing doing, I advise you go back home,’’ he said.


From Daily Post

16 comments:

  1. Diokpa odogwu that one room your father left for you since 24 years is still there...every time ego adina ego adina....come back home

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    1. you must be a goat...fool, cos he went to emerica he should be dashing out money to rats like you abi? mumu jealousy will kee you dia. am sure you have been praying and fasting for him to be deported so you can throw a party....you will fail. wicked soul

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  2. Go back to that sh*thole country? No way, not this present zoogeria.

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  3. Go back home to do what exactly? Abeg make una remain there is far better than Nigeria

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  4. nonsense man !!!!!!!as if dey will provide dem with jobs and accommodation once dey return

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    1. As dem noh see work there nkor?

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  5. You guys better not come back home oh, Nigeria is like living in hell.

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    1. Living hell... but A-list entertainers keep visiting.

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  6. Please, Please, please. It is better to be homeless and in the cold than to return home, abeg. No basic amenities to start with; food is going out of the reach of the common man; roads are death traps even in the major cities; no light and satanic bills that must be paid; if kidnappers don't get you, your own family ritualists will do; or arrange robbers to waste you; not to even talk of the insensitive government who only serve their pockets, families and numerous mistresses; as well as cows having more value than human lives. Please remain there, mbok. This is no country anymore.

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    1. What is the use of basic amenities there, when they are homeless in the cold

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  7. The Nigerian reality in USA is crazy. Most people just believe that once you enter yankee, all your problems have finish but that’s not true at all!
    When you enter and you don’t have documents, you need under the table jobs or need to use someone’s document that’s if you are lucky to even find. Both of these will fetch you a job of about $13/hr. If you work 40 hours a week, you get like 400 after tax.
    Now imagine $1600 a month when your bike/rent/transport and food will take $1200 if you are living within your means in a very frugal way.

    If you will run your document, you need $10k. Now imagine you save $400 a month. How many years will it take to save $10k. This is if you don’t send money to naija o and you are not sick or need to do any miscellaneous.

    If God will now catch you, go and live in NY where house and bills is crazy expensive! People do make it in USA but it’s not as people see it. If you are homeless and without a job and no support system, it’s best you go back to naija or maybe Europe or Canada. USA is not the way for you.

    People that make it through all this exists anyway so I’m not trying to discourage anyone

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  8. Hmmm, may God help us. No where easy but naija still beta in some aspects. hardly make u dey homeless.

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