This is getting out of hand….The politicians
who allegedly stole monies should suffer
alone!..Why should Innocent Nigerians
Abroad suffer with them? ATM Cards are
not working,Mr President do something!
I am not the only one crying..Buhari times
affects Nigerians all over the World!
Khalid is also crying….
”I thought it was a kind of joke when a
friend of mine studying in Cyprus informed
me few days ago that his Automated Teller
Machine (ATM) card is no longer working
and he learnt that it was announced in the
national dailies that ATM cards abroad are
being blocked, he asked whether I have
experienced similar challenge over here in
Pakistan. I replied him promptly that
actually even last week I withdrew cash
with my ATM card, jokingly he said “wow,
you are lucky then”, and we cut the
conversation.
Interestingly the following morning, I woke
up with some basic needs that I need to
access cash using my ATM card, I was so
confident to the extent that I have only 20
Pakistani Rupees on me at the moment,
after inserting my card and making all the
necessary inputs, surprisingly my card was
denied twice, I wanted to try for the third
time, but I then thought of losing the card
and I refrained.
Subsequently, I called my colleagues
studying here in Pakistan on Islamabad
campus and narrated my ordeal to them,
they told me that they have had similar
experience, in fact one of them had to
borrowed money to settle his problem,when
it will function again? only God knows.
For God’s sake, what kind of country is
Nigeria becoming? How could the felonies
of some minority affect the entire ordinary
innocent citizens? Is Nigeria the first or the
only country in the world to enter the so
called “recession”?
The point I am trying to make Mr President
here is that, we are from very humble
families and trying to access our legitimate
money to maintain our studies in foreign
countries and we were denied. We have no
other options at our disposal Mr President,
please how does the Nigerian government
expect us to survive? By begging our
colleagues or asking our Institutions to
give us education and pocket money?
I am sure thousands of Nigerian students
are experiencing similar challenge across
the world. Please Sir, this is a serious
threat to our future and to the Nigerian
future as well.
With all due respect Sir, some of your
children studied abroad and I am very sure,
without sufficient access to foreign
exchange, they wouldn’t have made it to
the end. Please Sir, consider this message I
am sending to you as if it were coming
from your biological son, studying in
London (or Pakistan in my case), telling
you that “Please daddy, my ATM card has
been blocked from Nigeria and I have only
£ 20 cash on me, please daddy how do I
survive, I need to take care of my basic
needs. Daddy I really don’t know what to
do, I have no body to ask for money over
here, please daddy do something”. This is
exactly our situation over here Mr
President, not only me, but thousands of
Nigerian students abroad. Your Excellency
Sir, you have had several education and
training abroad as well, you certainly could
imagine how it will feel to be far away from
home with uncertainty on how to maintain
your stay (the means is there but we can’t
access it).
Please I am appealing to you Sir, we are
your children and we do belong to our dear
country Nigeria, please do something to
reverse this harsh situation, so as to ease
our engagements away from home.
May God bless our President and our dear
country Nigeria”.
Khalid Garba Mohammed (PhD Student
from Pakistan)
Email: khalidgmk@gmail.com
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