Germany officials use electric object on me during deportation to Nigeria, deportee recounts ordeal

A deportee from Germany, Bright Obasuyi, has recounted how he was maltreatment and meant to go through a dehumanizing situation in the course of his deportation.

Obasuyi recounted how the German officials used electric object to shock him severally and his stomach tied to the seat inside the plane through out the eight hours flight from Germany to Nigeria.

He said the treatment almost caused him seizure during the journey.

Explaining the sordid experience, Obasuyi said the Nigerian authorities would rather not do anything to redress the injustices meted on her citizens abroad. He noted that they looked away when he was being brutalized by the German immigration officials at the Lagos International Airport during the deportation.

The Germany Nigerian deportees who recently attended the National Migration Dialogue in Abuja also expressed his dissapointment over the way and manner they were treated at the event.

The event which was organised by the Civil Society for Migration and Development (CSF): Strategies for State-Level Engagement for the Implementation of the 2025 National Migration Policy, attracted stakeholders like the IOM, EU and Federal Government Representatives, including some migrants who were recently deported from various countries, especially Germany.

One of the Deportees who was at the Abuja event, Obasuyi expressed his disappointment at its outcome as it offered no chance to victims of forced and illegal deportation from the Europe countries and the opportunity to relieve their sordid experiences.

“All the ill treatments they meted out on me are all trending in the social media. So, what would I expect in this kind of event that took place in Abuja.”

He further said that when the CSO, the organisers of the event brought them out to speak to the stakeholders, the IOM, EU, German representatives and others who were supposed to listen to their plights were not present, adding that when these people eventually arrived the event the following day, they approached the organizers to allow them take advantage of the opportunity, to relieve the pains of illegal deportation, torture and the racism beneath, they got no response.

He lamented that the missed chance has foreclosed some preventive measures their shared experiences could have forced the German government to put in place to check the mal-handling of immigrants in that country.

He alleged that the Nigeria’s government representatives did not want the German officials to know what they passed through, but only interested in sharing the positives in both countries’ diplomatic experiences and not the awkward and bizarre matters that have affected nigerians in Germany.

Obasuyi however, said that his case in Germany was presently being handled by a lawyer, adding that the case is on going.”This is how things are done rightly in Europe. But in Nigeria here we hide the truth. They only talk about integration and that is not real”.

He advised that in subsequent events migrants should be allowed to come to speak on all they went through during the process of deportations. He also strongly advised that the organisers should not give anybody opportunity to engage in the selection of migrants that would be allowed to come out and speak. “It should be the migrants that are facing persecution”, Obasuyi concluded.

On his part, Richies Idemudia who was equally deported from Germany said he was suddenly arrested at his work place, adding before he could reach out to his lawyer, he had already been taken to the deportation flight to Nigeria. He said when he got to Nigeria, the situation turned out to be a difficult one as no help was coming from anywhere and not even the government.

He expressed his disappointment on the Nigeria officials who claimed to have been there to represent their interests, but that they ended up telling stories like efforts at deportees integration and support financially. He said non of them had received any support from the Nigeria government since they arrived the country.

He alleged that all the things Nigeria officials told those foreign donors such as IOM, EU and other stakeholders were said to give a false impression that the right things were being done whereas the reverse is the case.

He appealed to the organiders of the event and other stakeholders to do the needful by sincerely establishing the migrants with financial support in their various trades.

He expressed the hope that the 2026 Migrants Dialogue Day will be such that will give migrants/deportees the necessary opportunity to speak extensively on their plights.

A female deportee, Wealth Ogbo, who was also deported from Germany to Nigeria on the 16th of April, 2024 said she has been stranded since she arrived without help coming from any quarter.

She recalled a month and four days she spent in the prison before she was eventually deported from Germany. “I came home with nothing as all my belongings are right now in Germany. Now, I have no money, no clothes to wear because I only came with the one I was wearing the day I was deported.”