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A scandalous allegation of having sex with minor Philippine girls have been made against 8 out of the 96 Nigerian boys from Niger Delta who were on the sponsorship of the Federal Government of Nigeria Amnesty programme in far-away Philippine.
The Nigerian suspects stands the risk of being thrown into jail for the next 18 years unless they cough out 1million pesos each (about N3.5m). Already, the organizers of the programme have dished out about 5 million pesos to Philippine Police to amend the charges in order to give the boys a leeway out of the hook of the law.
The Head of the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), Samuel Pagdilao said the Nigerians were arrested last Wednesday inside a hotel in Manilla for allegedly engaging in a sex trade involving female minors.
He gave the names of the suspects as ; Lucky Nelson, 24, Dumalo Gbue, 25, Yerebbari Neemana, 29, Owki Baknanawe, 29, Sundah Korobriowei Mathew, 29, Gabriel Tekena, 28, Worlo Enyi, 25 and Mark Jack, 24.
According to him, “the authorities learned about the suspects’ illegal activities after receiving an e-mail complaint from the mother of one of the minors alleging that “The [minors] were being sold to the suspects for sexual services at the hotel.”
The complainant also sought the assistance of CIDG for the rescue of her daughter,” In a rescue operation at about 10 p.m. of Wednesday, CIDG operatives saw a certain Emma Cruz, believed to be the minors’ “handler,” negotiating with the Nigerians outside the hotel.
The victims were being peddled to the suspect for P1, 500 each. Authorities then arrested the Nigerians after the complainant-mother, who went along with the CIDG operatives, recognized one of the minors being “sold” as her 14-year-old daughter. But the alleged “handler” eluded arrest.”
Pagdilao said charges for violation of the Anti-violence Against Women and Children Law and the Anti-human Trafficking in Person Law are being prepared against the suspects and lauded the CIDG’s “Project Angel Net,” a police campaign introduced by the CIDG to prevent children from becoming victims of cyber- sex, cyber -pornography, and other trafficking and sex trade-related abuses.
However, in a swift reaction, most of the Nigerian boys undergoing the programme told Crime Guard on phone that it was a frame up geared towards extorting money from them. One of them who craved for strict anonymity gave a vivid account of what really took place on the day in question.
According to him, “At about 10pm local time, our boys who have the habit of seating in front of their hotel of residence, saw the police arrive in three SUV Van and began arresting as much of the blacks as they saw.
Some of the boys were able to run into their hotel room and by that escaped being arrested. They were taken to Campo Crame, a police Village in Quzon City. We went there and were told by the police officers that the boys were arrested for engaging minors in sex.
“We got a lawyer who came to negotiate for us. We, however, discovered it was a setup organized by the police and some of their informants (who, one of the boys) had engaged before for sex as a prostitute which is called pokpok in filipino language and did not pay her.
In truth, the boys did not commit the offense as charged, but it is a common thing for Philippine police to set foreigners up and extort money from them. When we went into negotiation, they asked us to pay 1,000,000.00 pesos per person or they will charge them and make sure they go in for a minimum of 18 years jail term here in the Philippines.
They have perfected a process that will make it difficult for the boys to be acquitted as well as delay court process till the end of our stay. We were left with no option but to negotiate with them.
We involved the Nigerian Embassy, and the Ambassador, Mr. S.A.O Egurube, Charge d’Affaires en titre / Head of Mission and Mr. Abraham E. Okoliko who is the Minister (Consular and Information) among other staff of the embassy, were at the police station.
“However, their presence made the police uncomfortable and as such, the boys were charged to court without further delay. The embassy had to withdraw so that we could negotiate effectively.
At this point, we gave the police 5 million pesos and the charges were amended to give the boy a leeway out of the hook of the law. At present, a court process is going on and by the grace of God, they will be out in, at most, 2 weeks time. We are still spending more money in the court process to fast track it.”
Crime Guard also gathered that the Phillippine Star, a local tabloid celebrated the story against the Nigerian boys who are studying pipe line and underwater welding at MFI Foundation.
Source: Vanguard
20 comments:
Me I don't know what to say or believe. On one hand, rascism abroad is real and I don't trust this asians. On the other hand, I cannot vouch for Nigerian men and their innocence either because back home, many sleep with their underage housekeepers, rape university girls, sexually molest young vulnerable girls from poor homes and trick girls from poor homes into becoming sex slaves in Italy all whilst getting away with it. So, hopefully the truth prevails. Also, there are some countries that we Black people should not venture into due to the high level of rascism. It is well.
Philipine is a corrupt country even more corrupt than Nigeria.There women turn to prostitutes everywhere they go in the world.Am not suprised with the allegation.Its better our dear GEJ act like a president.
You can pay a fine to turn a criminal offense into a non-offense? wow
hmmmm this story is very funny to me!! phillipine??? like who doesn't know how corrupt law officials over there are. i wont be surprised if these guys are really being framed up in order to extort some money from them. The case should be really looked into cause the story get comma to me.
Idiotic Nigerians always crying for your president to help you in every situation! Is he supposed to be in charge of every million Nigerians home and abroad? Grow some common sense and start seeking ways you can do to help your country instead of looking to one lone man in Aso Rock. Mschewww
As poor as the Phillipines are, that tells you how ba the state of affairs of our country is, if we have to seek refuge in the Phillipines. God help us.
this is pure official hustling..i don't know why anyone goes to all these phillipine,malaysia e.t.c they hate blacks even more than any westerner especially phillipinos and they are heartless both male and female so i am sure they meant every word as they won't lose any sleep if they frame those boys up to go down for 18yrs
Philippine is as bad as Nigeria in terms of corruption but that shouldn't stop d Nigeria min. of external affairs for calling for fair trial. They should be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to the charges.
I totally agree with the first comment. Kudos.
An idle mind is the devils workshop, if they had to work to spinsor their education they might not have the time to cavort with prostitites both legal age and under age.
Make that guy meshionu jor !Medicine after death.
pls tell him to answer the following question.
Why bribe ur way out?
Were you in Philipine on your own or you represent a country on that land?
Did you asked the ambassador and high consular staffs to withdrew so that you(common citizen)could negotiate effectively?
Are you saying, the embassy staffs and their oga are not capable of handling a situation that might have negative effect on the image of the country?
@1976AD.com said,'You can pay a fine to turn a criminal offense into a non-offense? wow !
The name of Nigeria is bigger than any of us and we need to represent it with dignity and pride.
I can't vouch for nigerian men.a lot of them are fond of dis disgusting practice in naija here. in fact I'm 70% sure they are guilty of wat the philipines are accusing them of. Wat kind of national disgrace is dis ehn? Is that wat they sent them there to do? Na wa o!
some of the names sound Ghanian to me esp dt dumalo abi na dumelo.
Omoyibo again?. What are we going to do with Ibo people of Nigeria please?--Gbenga
No they are all NIGERIAN names not ghanaian names
if these are the same guys from the Niger delta part of the MEND rehabilitation programme, then this is exactly in their character. The philipines is notorious for her children as part of their sex industry that's why you see a lot of white Americans go there, plus corruption is just as high so with a few bribes u can fight any case. There's a documentary about it.
The phillipinos are simply paying-back the militants the same treatment they were given during the niger delta crisis. We seem to have forgotten that a lot of phillipino crew were taken as hostages for ransome, or do we think the amnesty program equally applies in the phillipines? However the only blame I will give the federal government is the fact that they sent the millitants being rehabillitated to a non-neutral country on this issue. This is simply the Law of Camma at work; now lets see if out MEND brothers can swallow what they happily dished out for legitimate reasons.
Other readers of this blog may think I am biaised, however, apart form making their points known in the past, the millitants equally commited some horrible crimes which never really caught the attention of main stream media during the crisis
this is pure set-up...........
My question simply is what kind of parent let's her daughter out at past 10pm on her own anyways? true or not, the woman should also be charged for negligent and or permissive parenting
Started from d bottom now we here... Ohh how tym flies...
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