Reactions Trail Abike-Dabiri’s Comment On Nigerians’ Crime Rate In Dubai

Reactions have trailed Abike-Dabiri’s comment on Nigerians’ crime rate in Dubai.

Eko Hot Blog reports that the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has claimed that Nigerians contribute one of the highest crime rates in Dubai, the capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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She was responding to a tweet on Twitter that appeared to promote the contributions of Nigerians to the Dubai economy.

Twitter user, Dr. Ola Brown, had tweeted that, “Someone once argued with me that the economy in Dubai will collapse without Nigerians”, in response to another tweet that said Nigerians are not among the top 10 visitors to the emirate city.

But responding to Brown’s tweet, Dabiri-Erewa disparaged the conduct of Nigerians living in Dubai.

“Unfortunately, the sad reality is that our crime rate over there is one of the highest,” the chairman of the commission responsible for supporting Nigerians in the diaspora, tweeted on Wednesday.

Immediately, her comments generated mixed reactions from Twitter users.

Some expressed support for the NiDCOM boss’s comment, saying she was brutally honest.

However, the comment angered others who wondered why the person who was supposed to be supporting Nigerians in the diaspora was the one disparaging them.

Here are some of the mixed reactions to Dabiri-Erewa’s tweet:

Recall that the UAE had on Friday slammed a visa ban on citizens of Nigeria and 19 other African countries.

In a notice issued to trade partners, the UAE government informed travel agents and authorities that “all applications should be rejected.”

Meanwhile, Wednesday was not the first time Dabiri-Erewa has been involved in disparaging Nigerians in diaspora.

As recent as last week, she responded to an insult on Twitter saying, Nigerians go to Indonesia, carry drugs, and come begging the Nigerian government to rescue them from death sentence.

“Ode! You go to Indonesia, carry drugs, do cultism and come begging to be rescued from death sentence . Thank God for @ndlea_nigeria now saving people like you from death row,” the NiDCOM chairman tweeted.

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The Twitter user had complained about the alleged poor treatment of Nigerians in Indonesia.

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