The Association of Nigerian Professionals in the Americas has said that the call for the dissolution or restructuring of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) was misguided.
The group in a statement signed by Engineer, Gbenga Omoniya said NiDCOM remains a veritable vehicle for Nigeria’s economic growth and national unity
He therefore said the call by the Coalition of Oduduwa Descendants on the Federal
government of Nigeria to either dissolve or restructure the NiDCOM was unwarranted.
He explained that “the Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) wouldn’t have been anything to write home about. But it becomes imperative that, as one of Nigeria’s
association in the Diaspora, we must respond to this misguided, perhaps borne out of a deliberate miseducation of this coalition, call for NiDCOM dissolution not only because the commission represents Nigerians
the world over (our association and its members inclusive), but the
unassailable fact that Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has been a “one-woman”
battalion whose interest in the wellbeing of Nigerians in the Diaspora
is beyond reproach, even before the establishment of a commission of
which she’s now its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
“The coalition’s so-called World Press Conference was laughable as it was
comical not only because the organizers exhibited deeply flawed thought
process in advancing whatever grievances they may have with the
commission, but the sheer fact that those reasons themselves are as
unintelligible, crass and badly disjointed which shouldn’t have emanated
from any Oduduwa descendants, let alone a Coalition. A World Press
Conference doesn’t get any asinine than that.
“Pray thee, what has NiDCOM got to do with the independent criticisms of
some Nigerians in the Diaspora? What also has Boko Haram and other
insurgencies that currently bedevils the country got to do with these
unsubstantiated criticisms? Would Boko Haram, banditry, kidnappings and
other nefarious activities of these degenerates suddenly evaporate were
this “negative publicity” to have stopped? How has NiDCOM “become the
refinery for the processing of crude, scathing critics and all forms of
negativism against Nigeria?” Where’s the connecting thread between
NiDCOM and the imbecilic reasons advanced by Ekundayo and his coalition
for the Commission’s dissolution?
