{"id":88526,"date":"2021-11-14T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T05:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=88526"},"modified":"2021-11-14T06:35:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T05:35:12","slug":"passport-scarcity-hits-nigerians-in-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/passport-scarcity-hits-nigerians-in-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport Scarcity Hits Nigerians In Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1716379783718191283\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unavailability of Nigerian passport booklets in missions abroad, has caused Nigerians to cry out even as they described the situation as a threat to their continued stay and livelihood in their host countries.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nThe Nigerians in Diaspora Network (NDN) Germany disclosed this in a rally in Oberhausen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>They called on the federal government to address the problem urgently.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman, NDN, Mr Victor Ojeabulu, said the predicament, if not urgently addressed, would create more hardship for Nigerians and even put them at risk of deportation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here today to make a special appeal to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, especially President Muhammadu Buhari. We want to let him know the predicament in which our people are going through here in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some months, our people have not been able to obtain their Nigerian passport and a lot are going through hell; those working need to renew their passport for them to continue work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said women in particular were finding it difficult to get passports for their children.<\/p>\n<p>He said women who were supposed to get their children registered for them to continue their lives could no longer do so because there were no passport booklets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very sad and as a mouth piece of the people, the Nigerians in Diaspora Network, we felt we have to make an appeal to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not see any reason why our people should be going through all that, it is not responsible for our people to go through all these,\u201d Ojeabulu said.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking, Mr Odijie Irabor, the general coordinator, NDN, said the passport remained the most important single identity document required for the purpose of international relations.<\/p>\n<p>Odijie urged the federal government to ensure the document is made available to its citizens in Diaspora as due.<\/p>\n<p>He said they had in the past gone to neighbouring countries in Europe to get their passports issued or renewed but unfortunately, the scarcity had hit all countries in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we are on a distress call on the Nigerian government to urgently address international passport dilemma in Diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sad story is that we book appointments for Nigerian international passport with Nigerian embassies; we travel unimaginable distances sometimes across international borders to pay and be captured for the passport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThereafter, we are made to wait indefinitely on the ground that booklets are not available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost times this happens when Nigerians need this passport urgently to renew their residency or embark on crucial documentation procedures in their respective countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can imagine how it sounds to return to your host government authorities with frivolous excuse on why we cannot present our international passport on demand,\u201d Odijie said.<\/p>\n<p>Odijie said the massive revenue potentials of passport issuance had been grossly underestimated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been conservatively estimated that over 10 million Nigerians are in Diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf 50 per cent of five million are documented, they will request for passport renewal every five years at an average cost of 100 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will amount to foreign exchange earnings of 500 million dollars in five years. The revenue accruing from international passport services in Nigeria is also staggering,\u201d Odijie said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the Nigerian government to look into the issue and investigate the scarcity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_-360649023276552193ymail_android_signature\"><\/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>The unavailability of Nigerian passport booklets in missions abroad, has caused Nigerians to cry out even as they described the situation as a threat to their continued stay and livelihood&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":88527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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