Nigeria cannot take Venezuelan deported by us, says Yusuf Tuggar

Nigeria will not worship pressure from the Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deporting or third-country prisoners, Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar has sworn, citing the public enemy of US rappers since the 1990s.

“According to the famous public enemy of the American rap group … you will remember a line from Flava Flav – a member of the group – who said:” Flava Flav has its problems. I can’t do anything for you, a person, “he said in an interview with private channels TVS

“We already have over 230 million people,” the minister said.

His comments follow threats from Washington to limit visas and tariff to march to countries that do not comply with his deportation policy.

“For Nigeria, it will be unfair to accept 300 deporting Venezuelan,” he said, suggesting that the last visa borders of Nigerian travelers from the United States were not “reciprocal” but pressure tactics.

“You will be the same person who will cast us if we agree to accept Venezuelan prisoners in Nigeria,” he added.

Earlier this week, the US Department of State said as a “global reciprocity adjustment”, almost all non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to Nigeria citizens, as well as those of Cameroon and Ethiopia, and will now be both valid for only three monthsS

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has threatened to strike countries, which country with BRICS Alliance policies that are contrary to US interests with an additional 10% tariffS

BRICS is the union of 11 developing countries designed to challenge the political and economic power of the West. Last year, the list of members of the BRC expanded beyond the original group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Nigeria is not a complete member of Brics, but has become her ninth partner in January.

Tuggar said the threat of tariff campaigns is not necessarily related to us involved in BRICS.

“You should also keep in mind that the US is exerting considerable pressure on African countries to accept the Venezuelans to be deported from the US, some directly from prison,” he added.

“For a country like Nigeria, it will be difficult to accept the Venezuelan prisoners in Nigeria. We have enough of our own problems, we cannot accept Venezuelan deportors in Nigeria to cry out loud,” he concluded.

Instead, he said that Nigeria is looking for “dealing with the US” because the country has a lot of gas, critical minerals and rare lands needed by US technology companies.

When he asked what Nigeria was doing in order to achieve a diplomatic decision, the minister said the country was discussing with the United States and resolving differences.

G -n Tuggar’s claim comes after Wall Street magazine cited internal documents and sources that say the Trump administration presses the leaders In Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania, Gabon and Guinea-Bisau, to accept migrants deported from the United States, whose inner countries refuse or slow to return them.

The newspaper says that before the White House Summit on Wednesday, the US government had already sent requests for all five countries to accept migrants expelled from the US, a strategy that the document described as an “aggressive” overlap between the Trump administration campaign and its foreign policy. “

It is unclear whether one of the five West African countries has accepted the requests.

Liberia Foreign Minister Sarah Baysolov has denied anything similar in Washington, telling the BBC Newsday program on Thursday:

“We have not had discussions about deporting or criminals coming to Liberia.”

Nevertheless, Trump seems hinted at the proposal during the meeting with the five leaders.

“I hope we can lower the high percentages of people who overcome visas and also make progress in safe third -party agreements,” he said during opening remarks.

Earlier this month, US deported eight people in southern Sudan after a legal battle This saw them divert to Djibouti in a few weeks.

At least four other African countries are reported to have been caught by the US to take deported. They are Benin, Esvatini, Libya and Rwanda.