SAVE OLAOLU SUNKANMI FEMI FROM UKRAINE ILLEGAL DETENTION

The arrest of a Nigerian student for allegedly defending himself against six teenagers who attacked him at the entrance to his apartment block. The student,
OLAOLU SUNKANMI FEMI, who is currently languishing in jail and may be facing life imprisonment in Ukraine is the mother of all injustices and continuation of slavery treatment to Africans.

Sunkanmi was arrested after defending himself against his assailants with a glass from a broken bottle in front of his apartment block on November 5, last year in Luhanski, Ukraine.

Witnesses at the scene said that one of his friends was physically attacked in front of his apartment by four Ukrainian young men and two women who pulled them to the ground while hurling racist slurs on them.

Sunkanmi was said to have managed to get up and defended himself against the assailants with a glass from a broken bottle.

It was while he was defending himself that police arrived at the scene and the Nigerian was subsequently arrested and charged with attempted murder of five people

The story of Sunkanmi is one out of thousands of mal-treatment and inhumane treatment, nigerians and other africans abroad do experience from the hands of the citizenry and even the government of that land.
The questions I want to ask is, could self-defence be a crime? And what more can be a total dehumanization for someone to be remanded in detention since November 5, 2011 without taking the case to court?

For the fact that Nigeria embassy in Ukraine have not been able to do anything meaningful for the release of that young man or even compel the Ukrainian government through the ministry of foreign affairs, to take the case to court instead of the continuous illegal detention of the nigerian shows that, the ambassador is clueless about his responsibility as an ambassador and recalling him won’t be too much to ask.

However, we in Nigeria cannot afford to fold our arms when one of us is facing injustice and if care is not taken, life imprisonment could be the lot of this young man. I, therefore, call on human rights organization like CDHR, UAD,CLO,Nigeria Amnesty international and others, activists and every noble nigeria to come forward and rescue this nigerian from this injustices and send a warning to other countries that Nigerians, without even their government will not condone the maltreatment of any nigerian in foreign land as we, nigerians don’t maltreat any foreigners here.

Please, if you have heard about the story of this young man before and you wish to take a positive move kindly contact me for us to work together as a team. Together everyone achieve more. Thank you.

Ifade Olusegun
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