BARELY a week after the Kenyan
government was said to have deported three Nigerians without due process,
leading to the grounding of the aircraft, a similar incident played out at the
weekend when the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the Lagos Airport refused
to accept one Isaiah Raymond Jnr. into the country.
Raymond was brought back
from Lisbon, Portugal, but the NIS requested the officials of the Portuguese
aircraft to return him to where he was coming from, follow the law on
deportation of its nationals before he could be accepted into the country.
NIS top officials and the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs told reporters yesterday that the flight crew
complied with the directive almost immediately and returned Raymond to Lisbon.
The same scenario is
playing out between Nairobi and Abuja following the deportation of three
Nigerians -Oluwatosin Adebiyi, Chinedu Ifedigbo and Christopher Nalyelu, as
Nigeria claimed that Nairobi flouted all known international laws and diplomacy
in deporting its citizens.
The Kenyan government
brought a legislative order from its Minister of Interior to deport foreign
nationals. In international law, however, municipal law, which falls under the
Kenya minister’s purview, must be domesticated in another country before it can
bind another country.
Source:
Guardian
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