Here is an open letter from Aisha Falode who lost her only
son 8months ago in Dubai.
It is with a heavy heart that I read about the death of the
son of Chief Alameiyeseigha on the streets of Dubai; an incident that
immediately jolted me back in time thanks to the bizarre similarities to that
of my son as regards “cause of death”.
My son was said by the Dubai authorities to have jumped down
from a balcony, dismissing it as "suicide", same with Chief
Alameiyeseigha’s son.
I am saddened that this has happened despite my nationwide
campaign to stop this happening AGAIN by putting all relevant government
agencies on notice, in vain.
For record emphasis, my son was thrown from the balcony of a
17th floor apartment in Manchester Tower in Dubai. A Saudi boy resident in
Dubai confessed to the murder; he had my son’s blood on his t-shirt, he had my
son’s blood on his knuckles and boasted about serving time for 25 years in
prison if it comes to the worst.
His murderer has a name-Faisal Aldakmary Al-Nasser.
There were witnesses to this murder, they have written
statements verbally and orally corroborating what the murderer said. I have put
all this together to make this easy for the Nigerian government to help me get
justice for my son in Dubai.
I warned the Nigerian government that Nigerian youths were
being killed in Dubai on a daily basis as confirmed by our embassy in Dubai. I also warned
parents about the danger of Dubai.
I also stated repeatedly, that if justice was not gotten for
my son that another murder will happen. Indeed there have been many more after
my son although not mentioned because they do not have a voice. But now, there
is one so close to government that has been struck.
I did not have to be a soothsayer to know this. Many more
will happen until we get Justice for Toba Falode, and all those who have been
murdered in cold blood in Dubai.
We cannot stand by and watch our youths lives being down
played over and above “collaboration and partnership” with a country that hates
us with so much passion, that they are cutting down the lives of our young ones
in cold blood crudely and viciously and yet we seek “partnership and collaboration”
in investment with this same country.
Our ambassador in the UAE, Ambassador Ibrahim Auwalu, must be called back to Nigeria to
answer to every young soul that has been lost to Dubai unaccounted for due to
his lack of responsibility in office.
The Foreign Ministry also, must be asked questions on what
they have done about Toba Falode’s case 8 months after. It took Israel less
than 48 hours to act on the loss of their 3 youths.
8 months after Toba Falode’s murder, we are still waiting on
the Nigerian government to give us any kind of reaction on the loss of a young
life-Toba Falode in Dubai.
Even after submitting every evidence, our protest, police
reports corroborating the fact that my son was murdered, we still have gotten
no response at all from the Nigerian government.
Take a queue from Israel.
And the Nigerian Government for once should start acting
like a big country with so much might and power that it is in the continent and
indeed in the world and go after Dubai for justice for every young soul and
every Nigerian life that has been cut short in Dubai.
We send our sympathy and condolences to DSP Alamieyeseigha.
The family and friends of their son, we empathise with them
because we have been through and are still going through it and it is nothing
we wish for any parent which was our concern from the start.
This, is one death too many. May it not happen again.
Aisha Falode.
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