Nigeria may review relationship with Indonesia following assault on diplomat

 

Nigeria has threatened to review its relationship with Indonesia if it fails to bring the Indonesian immigration officials who assaulted a Nigerian diplomat to book.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, stated this at a briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Nigeria’s ambassador to Indonesia has been summoned by the Federal Government to give a detailed account of the incident.

Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama had summoned the Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria over the assault of the Nigerian diplomat in Jarkarta, Indonesia.

Onyeama, in a statement in Abuja, said that the unfortunate incident was against international law and the Vienna Conventions governing diplomatic and consular relations between states.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in receipt of a report and has seen a video in circulation regarding an unacceptable incident in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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“Concerning the manhandling and arrest of a Nigerian Diplomatic Agent in front of his official quarters on 7 August 2021.

“The Nigerian Government has complained strongly to the Government of Indonesia, and the Ambassador of Indonesia to Nigeria was summoned by the Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

“The Ambassador explained what he understood that happened and apologised unreservedly on behalf of the Government of Indonesia.

“The Nigerian Government has sent an official protest to the Government of Indonesia.

“The Ambassador of Nigeria to Indonesia has confirmed that the immigration officials involved had since come to the Nigerian Embassy to apologise to the Ambassador and the diplomat concerned,” Onyeama stated, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted the minister as saying.