Nigerians in Canada who visited the Nigeria High Commission in Ottawa Canada last week, were disappointed when they got there to find to their chagrin the embassy was shut.
A notice at the gate said the embassy officials have gone on "consular duties" and will not be opened until after a few days.
The Nigerians, most of them students, had been given the appointment to come to the embassy to get their passports renewed.
One Nigerian said he spent close to $1,000 to get to Ottawa from Calgary.
One said he was going to waste $200 for coming to the embassy and not being able to fulfil his mission.
A young Nigerian lady studying in Canada, expressed the greatest bitterness.
She had travelled overnight to renew her passport. The journey cost her $300.
She will have to spend another $300, to return to her station and contemplating making a return journey, she vowed to burn her Nigerian passport, whenever she becomes a Canadian citizen.
“They don’t treat you like human, they treat you like animals”, the lady said.
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