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Nigerians in Italy Refute Ex-inmate Edo Commissioner Claims

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Nigerians in Italy Refute Ex-inmate Edo Commissioner Claims. Nigerians in Italy have refuted the current claims by Osaze Osemwengie-Ero, an erstwhile Edo commissioner, that Nigerians residing in Italy are being maltreated by the Italian authorities.

Michael Oputteh, Welfare Officer, Nationwide Union of Nigerian Associations in Italy (NUNAI), stated that Osemwengie-Ero additionally claimed that greater than 300 Nigerians had been being unlawfully detained within the Western European nation.

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In a press release made obtainable to newsmen not too long ago, Oputteh denied the declare by Ero, an Edo former Commissioner for Arts, Tradition, Tourism and Diaspora Affairs.

Ero, who returned to Nigeria after he was launched from detention in Italy, raised the alarm that greater than 300 Nigerians had been at present languishing in Italian prisons.

He additional claimed that he too was wrongly detained by the Italian authorities.

In response to him, he was a sufferer of racial discrimination and manipulation of a “very corrupt“ prosecutor of the Italian Justice system and that many Nigerians are in his footwear over there in Italy.

Nonetheless, NUNAI disagreed with Ero’s claims by stressing that Italian authorities had by no means focused Nigerians for any harassment or racial discrimination.

Edo Commissioner Claims

Edo Commissioner Claims