By Ozioruva Aliu, BENIN CITY

A France-based Nigerian woman, Ms. Ehi Nosakhale Ese, has cried out to the Nigerian government, the Nigerian Embassy in France, the Nigerian Diaspora Commission, Nigerians, and people of goodwill to come to her aid and rescue her from the hands of the French Police, which she alleged are planning to kill her.

She made the plea in a voice note she sent to newsmen in Nigeria. Ehi, aged 55, who is an indigene of Ebelle in Edo State, alleged that the French Police wanted to kill her for suing them after they raped her. She said they dehumanized her and seized her property.

It was reported in August this year that she alleged that she had been traumatized, dehumanized, brutalized and forced to live in the streets of Nice in France. She added that she was being treated as a psychiatric patient when she said she was not.

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She said that her predicament started when she refused the sexual advances of her employer, who then sacked her without her entitlements.

She said she approached the courts and won and her employer was ordered to pay her entitlements. But the man vowed that she would not live to spend the money.

Part of the voice note she sent goes thus: “I am Ehi Nosakhale Ese. Please you people should help me. I’m crying out to the whole nation so that they can come to my aid.

“The French Police want to kill me. They have tried all their efforts to give me an injection to kill me because I sued the police because of what they did to me.

“They took my property and they raped me. They did everything inhuman imaginable you can think of to me. Because I sued them, they want to kill me because the judge doesn’t want to rule against the police.

“Please, you people should come to my aid. They have taken me to a place where nobody can get in touch with me. Please, I’m asking the whole of Nigeria, the whole world to help me out.

“Please, the whole world should help me. I am more or less a dead person among the living. The French Police are threatening me with death. Please you people should come to my aid, please I am dying.

Ehi stated that she cannot stand on her feet anymore due to what she had been subjected to by the French Police.

“I am dying. Before they close my mouth I want to cry out so that people will know what is going on, please.

“They seized my money, they seized my property, they seized everything, I have nothing left. They raped me. I cannot stand as I am talking to you people. You people can hear my voice as I am talking. Please, you people should help me, I am dying. People should come to my aid, please.”

Nigerian Diaspora Commission

Earlier this year, Ehi had cried out to the Nigerian Diaspora Commission on the dehumanizing treatment she allegedly received from the French Police. She wrote the commission a letter through her solicitors, S. O. Agwinede (Esq) with number SOA/GEN/VOL.1/26/05/23 dated 16/05/2023 and titled: ‘Reminder- Dehumanising, Dastard and Cruel Treatment Meted Out on a Nigerian Citizen in Nice, France, Re: Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese’.

She also reminded the Commission of its earlier letter of complaint on the issue with number SOA/GEN/VOL.1/17/03/20, dated 21 March 2020 which was received by the Commission on 25 September 2020.

The letter of reminder appealed to the Commission to come to the aid of Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese in recovering her belongings. It noted that she’s on the verge of losing hope and trust in the Commission set up by her country to help her as a Nigerian living abroad.

In the said earlier letter of appeal to the Commission dated 21 March 2020, Nosakhale’s lawyers chronicled the genesis of her travails in the hands of her employer and the French Police.

They said her refusal of sex demand by her immediate boss, during the pendency of her marriage to her Italian husband, Mr Fiore Davide; wrongful dismissal from work, refusal to pay her compensation after wrongful termination of her employment, the adjudication by the French Labour and Commerce Court, to her ordeal in the hands of the French Police now has living on the streets of France.

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