Deported Nigerians Paid £3000 Each By UK Boarder Agency But Money Seized

As the deadline issued to President
Muhammadu Buhari to shut London
Nigerian High Commission draws near,
more Nigerians living in the United
Kingdom have pitched their tent with the
movement, vowing to carry out their
threat.
On Monday, a Nigerian-born Britain-based
human rights activist, Professor Alexia
Thomas, issued a 72-hour ultimatum to
President Buhari calling for a closure of the
Nigerian High Commission in United
Kingdom or face the wrath of Nigerians
living there.
Thomas is the Chairman of the
Commonwealth Liberation Party (TCLP), a
registered political party in UK and
President of Independent Diplomat
Commission (IDC).
She warned the Federal Government that if
the threat was not heeded, it was pretty
certain that the Nigerian House in the UK
would be torched by Nigerians living in
that country, in protest against their
sufferings, which she attributed to the
complicity of Nigerian diplomats there.
In an interview with journalists in London,
Thomas manipulated the High Commission
in issues relating to unchecked corruption,
fraud, illegal arrest, criminal torture of
Nigerians arrested and detained in various
British Immigration Centres in the UK;
Nigerians who are awaiting deportation.
She also alleged that officials of Nigerian
High Commission trade every Nigerian
deportee for the sum of £3,000 with the
operatives of the UK Border Agency.
She maintained that there was a conspiracy
between British Immigration and the UK
Border Agency which led to her prison
notes, for fighting for Nigerians’ freedom.
She had said, “President Buhari should
honour our 72-hour ultimatum and shut
down the Nigerian High Commission, if
not, no one should be held responsible
when Nigerian protesters and angry
Nigerians set Nigerian House on fire. If
Buhari refuses to heed our advice, then,
don’t blame us in any way.
“I ask the High Commission’s officials to
resign, in the next 72 hours, because the
Nigerian uprising commence, shortly. And
if the Nigerian uprising stands, the
Nigerian House in UK will need to be
closed down,” she said.
According to her, while she had been
working, relentlessly, to put a stop to the
deportation of Nigerians and other citizens
of the Commonwealth nations, officials of
the Nigerian High Commission in the UK
are adding to the plights of Nigerians in
the country.
“I received a phone call from some
distressed Nigerians already detained by
British Immigration that a Nigerian lady
called Mrs. Ngere, a Deputy Immigration
Officer at Nigerian High Commission, came
into British Immigration Detention Centre
and told the Nigerians there to return to
Nigeria.
“Unfortunately, she issued traveling
document (TC) to British immigration to
deport Nigerians, even after they (the
Nigerians) protested against it. We believe
Ngere could not have come there so boldly
without the support of her boss (Chief
Immigration Officer).
Our investigation confirmed that the
British Government are not aware of this
scandal, as names of these detained
Nigerians to be deported are written on the
UK Border Agency document showing
every deported Nigerians were handed the
sum of 3,000 pounds each, as this sum was
always collected and seized by officials of
Nigerian High Commission, while deported
Nigerians are never allowed to remove
their property nor given a dime,” Thomas
alleged.
The Daily Times contacted the High
Commission via its email portal and
telephone number for reactions to the
allegations, but there was not response as
at press time