In a place called Bangalore India, some Nigerians are reportedly being held in detention camps where they are subjected to various forms of inhumane treatment.
Findings from an investigation exclusively done by Truth Live News, a male detainee who pleaded anonymity said the camps are gender-based and a mixture of Africans, particularly Nigerians, Ugandans and Tanzanians. The female camp comprises African women who do not have documents or whose documents have expired but are made to pay millions of Rupees to secure their release which they still get denied.
The women and men are held hostage despite paying these large sums to their advocates to get released. They are subjected to all forms of maltreatment and assaults from the keepers of the detention camp.
Recall that in the year 2021, Nigerian activists living in New Delhi, Africa Obeges, alleged various forms of inhumane treatment of Africans, especially Nigerians living in India by the Indian police and civilians.
Obeges spoke about how a 43-year-old Nigerian, Leohand Lyeanyi, died at DDU hospital after a cop allegedly assaulted him using a popular wooden weapon, for committing no apparent crime.
The incident had sparked violent protest in west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar by Nigerians but the protesters were arrested by the Police and made to pay huge sums to secure their release.
Obeges further revealed that the Nigerian High Commission in India had allegedly asked the Indian police to scare the protesters ‘mildly’ which had resulted in broken legs, and injured heads among others.
Sadly, two years after, the situation is pretty much the same as according to the detainee who spoke to Truth Live News just recently, one of the female detainees from Uganda who is in the Bangalore camp wrote to the Foreigners Regional Registration Officers (FRRO) that she was going to set the camp ablaze if they are not released.
Upon reading the letter, the FRRO head unleashed police officers on them who battered them, left them severely injured and seized their phones. Some of the ladies are reportedly in bad states at the camp clinic after they were beaten.
While calling for help from the Nigerian government, the detainee said the Nigerian embassy over there in India, is weak and doing nothing to help get them out of the detention camps.