Author: Wole Olaoye

Indonesia ought to treat Nigeria as a valued partner and its citizens with some respect, but it doesn’t. “I can’t breathe! Hey!… My neck! …I can’t breathe!”, screamed Nigerian diplomat Abdulrahman Ibrahim as he was being strangled at the back of a car by Indonesian immigration police. If the assault had been visited on any ordinary citizen of any country in the world, it would still be as horrific. But the fact that the usual courtesies reserved for diplomatic staff were exercised in their breach, makes the savagery of the Indonesian officials doubly condemnable. The whole world seeing the video…