Two Nigerian held Hostage in Togo Prison
Really sad🙁
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Last year, November 8, my friend Cosmas and I were traveling to Canada and decided to board from Togo due to the fact that we saw a cheaper flight from Togo. We got to Togo on the 6th of November and lodged in a hotel until the day of our flight. On getting to the airport, the unforseen event happened.
Before we got to the airline stand(Ethiopia airlines), we were called by some of the airport officials. They asked us to show them our travel documents, which we did. They delayed us for hours to point that we missed our flights, and they eventually said our visas were fake. They keep checking and couldn’t give evidence to back up their claims. We explained that we got our visas through an agent and explained the process at which we got the visas, but they proved adamant. After a series of arguments, they also came up with another claim that our passports were fake. At that point, we knew they hated us because we we were Nigerians. Even if we were not sure about our visas, we were 100% sure of our passports because we went to the immigration office in Ilorin to obtain our passports, and we followed the right procedures we saw other people followed at the immigration office. The funniest part was that these airport officials were asking for 600 dollars to bail out ourselves. We refused, and they took us to the police station. We got to the police station that evening with the hope that they were taking us to the place where they would do proper investigation. On getting to the police station, they locked us in the cell, but before we were eventually locked in the cell, we dragged with them, and we requested that they take us to Nigerian Embassy in Togo so that they could verify all our documents most especially our passports, but the police refused. Rather, they beat us mercilessly and dragged us inside the cell. Our human rights were violated. They collected all our belongings and the 200dollars that was with us.
Meanwhile, one of our friends in Nigeria escorted us to Togo to bid us farewell, so he saw all that happened and went straight to the Nigeria embassy in Togo the following day. God so good, two of the consulates came on our behalf, and sent our passport details to Abuja for verification, and the result came back that our passports were original. These Togo police were so unprofessional, they were accusing us of using fake passport to travel while the report from the airport was fake passports and fake visas. After our embassy had verified our passports to be original and requested for our release, Togo police refused and locked us for five days. After five days, we were taken to the prison. We are presently in Togo prison as I type this message to you.
Really sad🙁
Good evening sir. I'm one of your followers on Twitter and I'm happy you are also following me. Please I would like to share the challenges I'm having rightnow with you and it partains with travel so that others can learn from it if possible
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— Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, Ph.D (@olumuyiwaayo) January 3, 2024
I want people to learn from this.. Togo is not a good country and they hate Nigerians so much. When we go to the prisons we met so many Nigerians here. In fact, the population on Nigerians in Togo prison is almost more than the Togolese citizens.
Nigerians should avoid flying from Togo. Even if they would be transiting from Togo, they should avoid Togo airport
