XENOPHOBIA:NIGERIANS WIRE-TAPPED IN ABIDJAN

XENOPHOBIA:NIGERIANS WIRE-TAPPED IN ABIDJAN

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.

Some unscrupulous Nigerians living in the Ivory Coast also called Cote’D’Ivoire actually con-joined telecommunication cables illegally in a scam that was called “Onibeji”,for the purpose of personal enrichment almost a decade ago aside from other nefarious activities they still indulge in as at press time on the West coast.

While speaking exclusively to the News Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia Group in Lagos,Nigeria ,A Nigerian [names with held]and who has lived in that nation for not less than a decade explained as much to this reporter.

According to him ,there were several Nigerians living in The Ivory Coast who were presently involved in illegal businesses  thus giving the good one’s among them a bad name and this is  what has heightened the issue of xenophobia this days .

He disclosed that most of the scamming Nigerians usually have a lot of money to throw around especially to the women and this is what has casued more tension between them and their primary host nation all the time.

\His words:”We have being to pubs where we have ordered all the ivorians whom we met at the place out of the bar simply because we had more money to burn and this is what usually caused tension  and the owner of the pub had no choice than to oblige us”

He paid tributes to the bad drinking habits of the Ivorians saying that he was in the habit of taking Vodka early in the morning and then taking an average of 2bottles of beer daily aside from eating.

He added that the state environmental conditions in Abidjan was also a sight to behold as his neighborhood of Pubway ,a highbrow area was cleared three times daily.

He however gave a thumbs down to the working habit of the people saying they usually have a break of three hours everyday while working instead of an hour as is the case in Nigeria .

The Nigerian that spoke to this reporter is father of two and a business man with interests in animal health and veterinary medicine both in Lagos,Nigeria and Abidjan,Cote’d’Ivoire.