Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has strongly condemned the shooting of an immigration officer by a Chinese company operating in Nigeria.
Furthermore, the incident, which occurred in Niger State, was described by the minister as an “attack on Nigeria.” Tunji-Ojo vowed to take the matter to the highest diplomatic level, particularly with the Chinese authorities, emphasizing that such actions would not be tolerated in Nigeria or anywhere else in the world.
The minister made these statements at a stakeholders’ sensitization workshop on the implementation of the Nigeria Visa Policy 2025 in Abuja.
He said, “I will not go to any country, open a company, and say the immigration service cannot come out. I will not do that.“ I don’t want to mention the company here, but they shot one of our immigration officers. They told their security attaché to shoot our officer, and he did— a foreign company?
“That happened a couple of weeks ago in Niger, and we are going to take it up with the Chinese embassy because it’s a Chinese company.
“I won’t go to China as a Nigerian, enter a company, and tell my security to shoot a government official in uniform. It’s never done anywhere in the world. That alone is an attack on Nigeria.”
Tunji-Ojo vowed to take the matter to the highest diplomatic level, particularly with the Chinese authorities, emphasizing that such actions would not be tolerated in Nigeria or anywhere else in the world.
