The Association of Foreign Relations Professionals of Nigeria (AFRPN) has condemned in the illegal arrest and the strangulation of an accredited Nigerian diplomatic agent, Mohammed Buba, by the officials of the Indonesian Immigration Service as widely displayed in a video on social media.
In a Statement signed by AFRPN’s President, Amb. Gani Lawal, the association wants the immediate disengagement of all the Indonesian immigration officers involved in such an uncivilized manner to desecrate the age long tradition of inviolability of diplomatic agents and their families and property as provided by Article 29 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations ( 1961) which states that; “Diplomats must not be liable to any form of arrest or detention, as they are immune from civil or criminal prosecution”.
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The AFRPN commended the immediate steps taken by the Nigerian Government in summoning the Indonesian ambassador and also inviting home the Nigerian ambassador for consultation while expecting the Indonesian ambassador to tow the diplomatic avenue by equally returning to Jakarta until satisfactory explanation and necessary restitutive steps are taken by Indonesian authorities to assuage frayed nerves.
Editor: Oloyede Oworu
