Chief Emeka Agba has called on foreign missions based in the country to respect the human dignity of Nigerians.
The chairman of Chief Emeka Agba Foundation stated this in a recent interview with www.theoctopusnews.com, adding that missions in the country are extorting Nigerians in the name of granting them visas.
According to him, a case where 100 or 200 Nigerians queue up in an embassy and apply for visas with some people paying between $100 and $3,000 for student visas, and 199 people are denied is alarming.
“A situation where an embassy grants only 10 per cent or five per cent of the people applying for a visa and nobody would ask any question, nobody will hold them accountable, is unacceptable.
“The government must protect not just the masses but their resources from being hawked away by vicious foreign hawks. I don’t know why anybody would allow a country to set up such a visa policy that when you pay for a visa application and are denied, they get to keep your money. This happens only in Nigeria. Just recently in Angola, the president told the missions in the country pomp and plain that if you don’t give his people visas, they should be given back their money. That is how it should be.”
Agba who also spoke on the open border policy being operated by Nigeria, urged citizens who don’t have any business abroad to stay at home.
“This open border policy that makes Nigerians travel as they like also needs to be reviewed. It is not that we are trying to deny people their right to freedom of movement, but when it’s certain that you don’t have anything to go and do abroad, I don’t know why you are going there,” he concluded.
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