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Parrikar denies racism against Nigerians in Goa

  •   Thu, Nov 07 2013 02:36:13 PM

Vasco, Nov 8 (IANS): Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar Thrusday denied allegations of racism against Nigerians in the state.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a press conference near the Dabolim international airport, Parrikar said: "It is not racism. If you see earlier history, you will see that more Nigerians are involved in drugs. So people are seeing it that way."

While two village panchayats in Goa have banned renting out houses and rooms to Nigerians students, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators have also blasted the Nigerian community living in Goa.

"Nigerians are like cancer," Art and Culture Minister Dayanand Mandrekar said, a day after Nigerians blockaded a major highway protesting against the murder of a compatriot.

Parrikar has said the murder was a fall-out of a gang war between narcotic gangs in Goa.

BJP legislator Subhash Phaldesai described Nigerians involved in Thursday's violence as "wild animals" whose bodies are pumped with drugs.

A day after the violence, an association of rent-a-bike owners have resolved to stop renting out two wheelers to Nigerians.

They also put up banners across the coastal belt in north Goa, which says "No to Nigerians!"

The targetting of Nigerians in Goa has attracted the ire of the Nigerian ambassador to India, Ndubuisi Vitu Amaku.

"Nigerian people are offended that you are more concerned with the welfare of your own people. We are given the impression that the murder of a Nigerian individual is not important to you," Amaku has said.

 
  

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  • Benny, Anjuna Beach

    Fri, Nov 08 2013

    It is a fact that the majority of Nigerians is involved in the drug trade. It is also a shame that they took the police force to ransom and local Goans had to come to the rescue of government machinery. The reaction shows the frustration of Goans at the total failure of government and their beautiful place becoming a source of drug and crime . Though it is not right to generalize and blame all Nigerians, a government with any sense will definitely take the lead and restrict visa to These well known criminals.

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  • Aubb, kuwait

    Fri, Nov 08 2013

    I feel the Goans are over reacting.

    Nigerians do have a legal right to live anywhere in India, as much as Indians do in Nigeria.

    Drug abuse, corruption is not restricted to Nigerians alone, but is spreading rapidly all throughout Goa.

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