Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Diaspora Commission. Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has slammed a man who, on Monday, vandalised five cars on the premises of the Nigerian Embassy in the United Kingdom.
The 32-year-old identified as Jeffery Apkovweta Ewohime was said to have destroyed the cars because he couldnot get his passport.
Dabiri noted that he could not secure the document because he failed to produce a slip required.
While Ehohime was said to have first retired to a nearby hotel, he was said to have returned to the embassy where he vandalised the cars.
Noting that Jeffery had been arrested, Dabiri described the act as unpatriotic and unacceptable.
The Nigerian man who destroyed five embassy cars in London earlier today has now been identified as Jeffery.
Confirming the incident, Muhammed Babandede, the Comptroller General of Immigration Service, said, “He arrived late and was told by the Security that the Mission has closed for the day. He went about destroying Nigeria’s diplomatic vehicles worth hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money. The passport in question has been issued since 6th of June 2019. He did not leave any self-addressed envelope for delivery.”
In a statement by Dabiri-Erewa’s media aide, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, she
In her account of events, Dabiri-Erewa said she received a report that Ewohime went to the Nigerian Embasy in London on Monday.
He had approached the Embassy to collect his passport which expired since November 2017 at about 2 pm and was told collection of passports closes by 1 pm.
He then insisted on collecting his passport, and was told to bring his collection slip which he could not produce.
According to reports from the Embassy, it would be wrong to hand over his passport to him, without his collection slip,
He, thereafter, left agitated and returned from a nearby hotel to destroy about seven cars, five belonging to the mission, and two to visitors who parked nearby.
“His attempt to destroy the high commissioner’s car failed as it is bulletproof. I am told that he has been arrested by the police. He destroyed seven brand new cars except the ambassador’s car which is bullet proof,” she stated.
“This is a despicable act, which must be condemned by all. Of course, the law must take its course.”
