Echoes from China

A Diplomat is by definition and training someone who is an expert at speaking the truth, when absolutely necessary, in the least offensive way. They are trained, we have been told, to tell you to go to hell and you actually look forward to a jolly trip to hell, believing that coming from a Diplomat, hell must be a beautiful place to spend some time!

So when the Nigerian Ambassador to China tells the whole world and anybody willing to listen, sordid details of Nigerians and our involvement in criminal activities in China one begins to wonder what kind of training our Diplomats parade around the world. Coming at the heels of equally sordid revelations of tax payers money (solid money) being siphoned into paying school fees of non existing children of Diplomats, you can see my problem. Its not funny.

Mr. Ambassador believes, or thinks, that 90% of the crimes committed by “black people” in China are committed by Nigerians. The Chinese do not doctor their statistics, so I believe our Ambassador knows what he is talking about. What I do not understand in the circumstances is whether this is the language of a top Diplomat representing a country like Nigeria in the world’s most populous emerging superpower. I cannot think of any other analogy than a defence Lawyer telling the Judge details of the crime allegedly committed by his client. This is most absurd. This must be diplomacy forced to stand on its head! Which School of Diplomacy taught him that the best way to solve the problem of Nigerians and criminal activities is to tell the world that Nigerians are the only criminals in China?

Now that our Ambassador has abandoned all diplomatic finesse and descended to the gutter-bred language of ordinary mortals like us, may I suggest that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should loan him Mr. President’s 747 to enable him bring back all Nigerians resident in China since he does not see any Nigerian there living crime-free and/or law-abiding? The Ambassador should be loaded in the cargo compartment of the plane in the return journey because he has betrayed his country and does not deserve to remain in China one minute longer. He should be deported with the “criminals” pronto. May be other Ambassadors in his mould will learn to live and earn their keep. Coconut head!

Tata, everybody

Napoleon