Trial Of Osuofia

June 30th, 2007

The recent police raid at a show featuring Nkem Owoh, aka Osuofia, in the Netherlands should give Nigerians great cause for concern. Increasingly, Nigerians are targets of clampdown by authorities in foreign countries. The bitter truth, however, is that we brought this on ourselves.

It is unfortunate that a showbiz icon like Nkem could suffer the indignity of arrest and questioning for staging a show, but no sane country would fold its arms and watch illegal immigrants take over its territory.

The rate at which some Nigerians have become nuisance in developed (and sometimes undeveloped) countries is alarming. Unfortunately, people with legitimate businesses in such places are made to suffer for the sins of their crooked compatriots.

The argument that the authorities in Holland were offended by Nkem’s I Go Chop Your Dollar is lame. One wonders if they would stop an American rapper from yapping about shooting guns and switching h**s in their country.

The indignities Nigerians suffer start from embassies here. Then God helps you if you meet an immigration officer who woke up on the wrong side of the bed at the airport.

Maybe next time Osuofia does a show in a foreign country he should advertise that only Nigerians with valid papers need attend.


source before de say na me form am:www.independentngonline.com