Association of Foreign Relations Professionals of Nigeria (AFRPN) has condemned the illegal arrest and the dehumanising strangulation of an accredited Nigerian diplomatic agent, Mr Mohammed Buba, by the officials of the Indonesian Immigration Service.
In a statement signed by its President, Amb Gani Lawal, on Wednesday, AFPRN recommended the immediate disengagement of all the Indonesian immigration officers involved in the act, which desecrates the age-long tradition of inviolability of diplomatic agent and their family and property as provided by Article 29 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations ( 1961)
Article 29 of the Vienna Convention states that diplomats must not be liable to any form of arrest or detention owning to the fact that they are immune from civil or criminal prosecution.
The association commended the immediate steps taken by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in summoning the Indonesian ambassador before receiving the full report from its embassy as a first step in the series of reactions reserved for such heinous diplomatic blunder.
“While the ministry is still reviewing the state of our bilateral relations with Indonesia, a robust reaction is being awaited by the association to serve as a deterrent to a future occurrence of such treatment to any of our diplomats and embassy home-based staffs and indeed any Nigerian citizen from anywhere across the globe.”
AFRPN asked for adequate material compensation for the family of the concerned diplomat to also take care of his health for the traumatic treatment meted to them in addition to offering public apology satisfactory to the Nigerian people and government including an assurance against future occurrence.
“The AFRPN also noted the position of the house committee on diplomatic relations to move to invoke Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations to declare everyone at the Indonesian Embassy in Abuja a persona non grata if their nation’s authorities failed to effectively explain their actions against the Nigerian diplomatic agent.”
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