A group of Nigerian students studying in China, The Coalition of Nigerian Students Jun in China, CNSC, have come hard on some Nigerians living in China for being bad guest of the Communist government.
The President of the group, Umar Abukabar in a statement made available to the media over the weekend denounced statements purportedly issued by Nigerian groups in China, stating that these groups does not represent their views and opinions about the Chinese government.
*most of these group are hardly known to us and we doubt if they exist at all”. Abubakar said.
He bemoaned the frequent statements being issued by one group or the other against the Chinese government noting that it was unbecoming of foreigners living in another man’s country, “if truly they are been maltreated as claimed what are they still doing here? The Chinese government is our host and it bespoke of a bad guest to constantly harangue your host in this manner while you are still a guest in the country.” The statement read.
He said that as president of Nigerian students in China there was no truth in the prevailing stories that Nigerians are being harassed in China. On the incident in Guangdong he had this to say.
“what happened in Guangdong should be seen as an isolated incidence, and most of the Nigerians that were denied accommodation is because they refused to adhere to the stringent measures put in place by the Chinese government to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. Unfortunately many Nigerians are capitalizing on it to demonized the Chinese government”. He said that the sucesses the Chinese government have achieved in curtailing the spread of the virus was because of these very stringent measures. “how do you think China was able to defeat the virus? many other nationals have been adhering to these new rules without questions, why Nigerians think they should be treated differently and can now dictate to the Chinese government how to run their country beats imagination”
He said that as president of Nigerian students in China there was no case of any Nigerian student facing discrimination or molestation. “many of us appreciate the efforts of the Chinese government in seeing to our welfare. We have being fully provided for and in most cases the Chinese government have borne the extra cost of our upkeep especially during the lockdown in some provinces. Amazingly the efforts of the Chinese government has ensures that no Nigerian student has so far contracted the virus and we hope it remains so ”
He noted that if there were genuine grievance among Nigerian living in China, there were appropriate mechanism for dealing with them rather than constant media statements.
“Each time we come across such statement it is an embarrassment not just to us but our host who sincerely don’t deserve this media trial” he said.
