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Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister condemns “criminal attacks” at Higher Commissioner’s home Ghana


Nigeria’s Overseas Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama has condemned an attack at the country’s Significant Commissioner’s home in Accra on Friday night.

JoyNews editor, Fred Smith was referred to as to the High Commissioner’s home Saturday soon after armed adult men with bulldozers demolished a block of uncompleted apartment on the property.

The developing was becoming manufactured to home staff and viewing diplomats to the High Commission.

In accordance to the head of protection at the Significant Fee Emmanuel Kabutey the chief of the crew that arrived to demolish the making informed them they had the backing of Nationwide Security and that “if any of us check out, he will distinct us off.”

Mr Onyeama has explained the incident as “criminal attacks.”

In a tweet, the Foreign Affairs Minister claimed “we strongly condemn two outrageous felony assaults in Accra, Ghana on a residential making in our diplomatic premises by unfamiliar individuals in which a bulldozer was utilised to demolish the developing.”

Mr Onyeama included that his place of work is engaging the govt of Ghana and “demand urgent motion to obtain the perpetrators and present suitable safety for Nigerians and their assets in Ghana.”

Meanwhile, Ghana International Affairs Ministry in denouncing the assault described it as a advancement “which is a breach of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR, 19610).”

The Ministry states instigations are ongoing to unravel the point of the subject and deliver the perpetrators to e-book, a statement copied to JoyNews said.

In the meantime, on the other hand, the authorities of Ghana has beefed up stability at the claimed facility and the predicament is “under manage,” the assertion included.

“Whilst expressing regrets over the incident the Ministry needs to reassure the Diplomatic Neighborhood in Ghana and the Nigeria High Commission in individual, that Ghana stays a regulation-abiding state that upholds the concepts of the rule of regulation, wherever thanks method is followed at all times.

“The governing administration will, thus, not relent on its principal obligation to assure the security of Users of the Diplomatic Corps in Ghana,” the statement claimed.

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