A Mother's Agony: Death Of Nigerians Abroad

Its always a thing of joy all over the world where that young child that was watched taking baby steps gradually grows into a fine young man/woman.

The dream of most young ones is to go abroad, some to further their education and some to eke out a living all in a bid to be comfortable.

Sadly, the wide smiles, tears of joy that are shed at moments of parting to meet again, the sweet painful hugs at the airport, final wave at the departure lounge, the wait for phone calls, emails.

It ends up a different way for some, that one phone call that comes and devastates your whole being, the first thought of could this be a prank?

As reality dawns and you wonder why me? And unfortunately in most cases its not natural deaths.

A life is valuable no matter who or where that life may come from and for every mother just as we are agitating to #bringbackourgirls, we should also put in our thoughts mothers that have had their children taken away from them in a most gruesome manner, lets do what we can.

Aisha falode in her interview with PUNCH news. Excerpts below:

She said, “Where they found my son’s body was too far away from the building for somebody that fell by himself. It was about 18 to 20 metres from the building. The police (in Dubai) have not done a proper investigation on my son’s death because they said everybody in the apartment gave the same account of what happened, which was that my son was alone on the balcony and he sat on the railing and was swinging back and forth when he fell. The police did not tell us the whole truth and were trying to cover up for one of his friends who is Saudi.”

 “Toba’s other friends who were in the apartment when the incident occurred told me that they noticed that the Saudi boy had splatters of blood on his T-shirt, a cut on his fingers and blood on his knuckles. In panic, they rushed to the balcony and saw that my son was no longer there. So, they knew that something had happened. The Saudi kept telling them that they shouldn’t worry about it (my son’s death); because the maximum he would do was 25 years in jail, and that he would take care of it.

Falode pleaded with the Federal Government to intervene on the matter and ensure that justice is done.

“No American or British citizen can be slaughtered anywhere in the world without their government asking questions. We can’t call ourselves ‘Giant of Africa’ if our citizens are killed in other countries, and yet we have not heard of any single investigation by our government. It is indeed very sad for me. This is one death too many,” she lamented, and urged the FG to prevail on the Dubai authorities to re-open the investigation into the case.

“The government needs to see this as a justice for a Nigerian. It is very painful for any parent to lose a 19-year-old son who has so much promise and future ahead of him. It is also to prevent another Nigerian from dying this way. If we had a good system in Nigeria, why would we be sending our children abroad to study? It’s not about my son anymore, but other Nigerians who still have the intention of sending their children to Dubai.”

 In a motion, the Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said Ghana, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and South Africa were listed among the nations where Nigerian students had been killed recently. Dabiri-Erewa noted that in Ghana, four Nigerian students had been killed since October 2013.

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