SUSPECTING a sinister motive in the identification of an attacker on a
British soldier as a Nigerian, Nigerians in the United Kingdom (UK)
Thursday disowned Michael Mujahid Adebolajo.
Nigerians in the UK have said one of the suspects in the Woolwich
attack, Adebolajo, is not a Nigerian but a British citizen as
Metropolitan police officers raided a house in a Lincolnshire village
belonging to the Adebolajos.
Reacting in a statement, a chieftain of Nigerians in Diaspora, UK,
Sam Onigbanjo, said: “The beheading was done by a British citizen and
not a Nigerian as speculated, his name does not confirm his
nationality.“This lunatic was born in the United Kingdom, never been to
Nigeria.
He was issued a birth certificate in the UK and held a British
passport. Suddenly, he is now a Nigerian? This guy is not a
Nigerian-British born.”
Onigbanjo noted that “because the accused is not Gabriel Agbonlahor
playing for Aston Villa and Three Lions, or Andrew Osagie, UK’s reigning
800m champion, or Lawrence Okoye, British Discus Record Holder
(68.24m), or Abiodun Oyepitan, British Olympic Silver and Gold Medalist,
or Christine Ohuruogu, Beijing Olympic British Gold Medalist, or Eniola
Aluko, British Olympic Female Football star, or Temi Fagbenle, British
Olympic Basketball queen, or several other thousands of British citizens
with Nigerian connection who are making the country proud, it is being
made to look like Nigeria has shown itself again over the action of the
British boy who beheaded a soldier yesterday.”
Also, a North London-based non-governmental organisation (NGO),
African Partnership Development (APD), has strongly condemned the
actions of one of the two murder suspects.In a statement made available
to The Guardian, APD said suspect Adebolajo was not in any way a
representative of the Nigerian community.
