{"id":83993,"date":"2021-07-24T19:13:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T18:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83993"},"modified":"2021-07-24T19:13:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T18:13:25","slug":"over-300-nigerians-languishing-in-italian-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/over-300-nigerians-languishing-in-italian-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Over 300 Nigerians Languishing In Italian Jail\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1706188102767277795\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former Edo State Commissioner for Arts, Culture, Tourism and Diaspora Affairs, Osaze Osemwingie-Ero, has disclosed that over 300 Nigerian youths are languishing in Italian prisons for trumped-up charges on mafia-related offences.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nSpeaking during an interview on Arise TV, Osemwingie-Ero said he learnt about the plight of the innocent young Nigerians during his wrongful detention in Italy as a result of a \u201cvery corrupt and complex system.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cWe have over 300 Nigerian youths who are unjustly being held in prisons because of these mafia-related crimes; they didn\u2019t commit the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the youths are held and committed to maximum prisons in Italy because they do not have the resources to access an independent lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that because they don\u2019t have money to take lawyers; the prosecutor gives them government lawyers that he uses to manipulate them.<\/p>\n<p>He further called for the stakeholders\u2019 collaboration of all stakeholders including the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission and the media, among others to rescue the youths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a senior government official, there was no support from the Nigerian government during my ordeal in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have spoken to the chairperson of Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, who is very proactive and vocal, and she\u2019s ready to work with us to ensure that those people are released,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-commissioner explained that he was on an official trip to Germany, in 2019, to have a meeting with the Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, on the Benin artefact restitution campaign when he was arrested in Amsterdam and illegally detained for over a year in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he was a victim of racial discrimination and manipulation of a very corrupt prosecutor of the Italian justice system.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Edo State Commissioner for Arts, Culture, Tourism and Diaspora Affairs, Osaze Osemwingie-Ero, has disclosed that over 300 Nigerian youths are languishing in Italian prisons for trumped-up charges on&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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