The findings also revealed that the reason for owing such backlog of salary is connected to paucity of funds by the government of Nigeria. It was also discovered that diplomats posted to the Mission by the Foreign Affairs Ministry are suffering the same fate as the locally recruited staff.
AfroLife correspondent who visited the Mission on Via Orazio reports that from the gate staff are seen with long faces. One staff member described the situation as “very bad,” as they have been reduced to living from hand to mouth.
Utilities bills are said to be mounting at the Mission. Landlords are being owed while suppliers are groaning under the weight of uncleared bills. The worrying trend is not peculiar to Rome, most Nigeria Missions all over the world are under the burden of debts.
The ugly trend has opened the door wide to touts who have now invaded the Embassy. This magazine report authoritatively that these touts who have been thorn in the flesh of Nigerians in Italy now brazenly come and go inside the Embassy unhindered. Two notorious touts were seen nesting in the comfort of a couch at the immigration section.
The APC government under former President Mohammadu Buhari promised it would drastically prune Nigeria Mission all over the world because they were unsustainable but failed woefully to deliver on that promise. The government under Bola Tinubu seemed not bothered that Nigeria Missions have become behemoth of embarrassment to the nation.
