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Mohamet Mbaye Deported From Nigeria For Entering Without A Valid Visa · DidiLawren

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  Hello and welcome back to the episode of Bantu Lorenzia.
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  How are you all doing up? You're doing great.
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  For today's episode, I want to talk about Swaggy MO now.
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  Swaggy MO is a content creator who decided to come to Nigeria.
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  According to him, a friend of his was getting married in Abuja
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  and then he was invited. They told him they were going to
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  take care of him, take care of everything.
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  They bought the tickets and all that and they told him they were
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  going to take care of, I don't even know, OK, as an American,
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  because he was talking about a blue passport.
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  So I think blue passport is American passport.
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  This guy flew in from America to Nigeria without a visa.
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  I don't know how it works, OK, because I said Nigerian dual
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  citizenship. When I get to Nigeria, I will
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  just bring my passports. And then you use your Nigerian
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  passport to basically check in so you don't flash the American
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  or the whatever passport that you have.
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  Because as a Nigerian, you check in as a Nigerian.
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  And then when you're checking out going to another country,
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  you, you present the country's passport that you're going to to
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  make sure that you have valid exit and entry visas or
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  passports. Now more they told him they were
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  going to take care of everything.
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  I don't know how it works, but more flew into Nigeria without a
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  visa for some reason. He flashed his American
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  passports and maybe he was expecting.
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  I don't know what he was expecting.
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  And then let me just play that video for you to to hear from
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  more I. Don't think I will ever step
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  foot in Nigeria again for the rest of my life if I can avoid
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  it. I just got deported from Nigeria
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  and it was the most dehumanising, humiliating
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  experience ever in my life. And it wasn't just because I was
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  getting deported, but it's because how I was treated.
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  And it's absolutely breaking my heart that I have to make this
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  video because if you know me, you know my love for Nigerians
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  really like go deep bro. Like a country that doesn't get
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  the flowers that I rightfully earned and deserved is Nigeria.
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  Listen, I'm obsessed with Nigerians to like an unhealthy
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  level. Like I love Nigerian so much.
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  The creativity, the tenacity that drive the Nigerians are
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  built differently. Listen, I just went to Harvard
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  for speaking, the engagement when I tell you everybody I met,
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  what's your name and catchy, what's your name?
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  Adeola, What's their name? Olua Femi.
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  I'm like, ah, I felt like I was a Nigerian convention or
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  something, which proves what I always knew to be true.
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  Nigerians are just the definition of excellence.
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  I even feel the need to like apologise to like my Nigerian
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  colleagues and like, just like all the people from Nigeria that
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  really support me, you know, like I truly champion for
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  Africa, bro, you know, I'm saying, and to get treated like
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  that on African, like Nigeria was always the number one
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  country on my travels list more than I wanted to even go back to
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  Senegal and Gambia. Like I swear, like Nigeria is so
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  rich in culture, tradition and history.
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  And I've always wanted to experience that.
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  I always wanted to submerge myself within that.
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  And I felt like that was robbed of me, not just because of the
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  deportation, but because of like how traumatic the whole
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  experience was and how some of these people were, were
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  speaking. I'm just like, I don't ever want
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  to have to deal with this again for the rest of my life.
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  So a friend of mine was getting married in Abuja and was like
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  your MO pull up to my wedding, Like, don't worry about airfare,
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  whatever, I'll pay for all that. So he was basically taking care
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  of every. So I was like, super, super
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  excited. I've had this thing where like
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  in every African country I go to, I always want to go to like
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  an orphanage and figure out like, you know, how I can
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  contribute or anything of that sort.
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  So I was like, yeah, let me figure out what I can do to give
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  back to the people in Nigeria. So I spent thousands and
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  thousands of dollars of my own money and just was already
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  making connections with people that are out there on the
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  grounds and like figuring out how to like, get the fundraiser
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  going and everything. And I felt like also like just
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  the way that charity is done in Africa is it can be very
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  dehumanising. And I just want to kind of like
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  change how that is done in a sense.
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  As I got to the airport, they were asking me like, what's my
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  visa? I'm like, oh, the person that
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  invited me like took care of it, but it's because the system in
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  Nigeria was down. They didn't get any like update
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  or anything of that sort. So I had to make an application
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  at the airport and I got the confirmation that the
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  application was submitted. So I thought that once I get to
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  Nigeria, I would get the approval.
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  At least there's something that I can like, you know, figure out
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  there. But that wasn't the case.
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  Got to Nigeria and they were like, oh, your visa still not
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  approved, but the system is down.
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  We can't even check it. And they took me to an office
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  and I was talking to this one guy and his shift ended and he
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  left and I was there by myself. Legit nobody was giving me
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  information, nothing. I was hungry, thirsty, nothing.
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  Bro, I even got outside one time trying to speak to somebody and
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  this the guy legit ignored me to the point where somebody had to
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  look at him and be like yo respond to him.
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  And he was like, what do you want?
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  Like he was like just go back over there.
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  I'm just like, that was so disrespectful.
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  I was legit just trying to get an update on what was happening.
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  Mind you, like people walking around but you don't even know
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  who's an immigration officer or not.
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  People, some people are in plainclothes and some people are
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  sewing their bags. Some people are.
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  But it was just so chaotic. After hours of waiting at the
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  Lagos airport, their senior official, he came in and he was
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  even more dismissal. Just legit was like oh we
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  sending you back? Within 5 to 10 minutes of him
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  coming, I was already being escorted back to go to the Delta
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  gate for the next flight that was out.
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  So the flight happened to basically like be late or the
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  door was closed by the time we got there and they wanted me to
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  stay in their office bro for 24 hours.
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  The next flight was 24 hours away.
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  I was I had to pay out of my own pocket to go get a lounge so I
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  can eat and shower or even get like a beverage.
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  But nothing was offered to me. And it's crazy because some of
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  the shopkeepers that were there like were just so nice, so cute.
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  They always were looking out for me asking me, oh, do you want
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  anything? Do you want any food?
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  Like always check in to mix it. I was good.
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  And mind you, there were people that were on the same flight as
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  me that will come and people would like people in regular
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  clothes would come and legit no bags, no nothing.
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  Come escort them all the way. Before he even reached the
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  passport control, they would take, take, come escort them
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  from there. They didn't even scan their
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  passport. And some of the immigrations
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  officers were in my face talking about oh, and they saying, oh,
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  Nigeria is corrupt, basically saying that like, oh, I guess
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  we're so corrupt. But I'm just like, what does
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  what everybody else have that what does that have to do with
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  me? And get this, even the next day
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  that I was getting processed right in front of my face, the
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  Delta employee was telling the immigration officer, oh, a good
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  job. I'm another African man just
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  like you, bro. The blue passport that I carry
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  don't mean nothing, bro. At the end of the day, like have
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  some respect and have some dignity in the way that you
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  treat people. He was like, oh, good job.
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  Oh, you guys are finally doing a good job.
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  I'm just like, and mind you, this is the same guy that I was
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  going to upgrade my flight with. And he was just being so
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  dismissal and almost like, oh, yeah, oh, you're going to fly
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  back in the economy because the ticket was economy.
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  So I had I was going to upgrade. I upgraded my flight by myself
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  when I was going and so I was going to do the same thing when
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  I was coming back and he was just like, Oh no, we go fly you,
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  we gonna fly you will send you back in economy.
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  Mind you, I have a Delta status and I was willing to pay for
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  whatever the upgrade was going to be because I was flying 18
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  hours, 18 hours the day before just to sleep at the airport.
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  But it's 34 hours just to get right back on another plane.
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  Like I feel so heartbroken because like, if you know me,
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  like I really rock with Nigerians like heavy bro.
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  I never in my life thought I would ever sit down and be
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  making this type of video. Never ever, ever in my life.
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  But like I'm a big believer in divine order.
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  So maybe it was just not being meant for me to go to Nigeria,
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  but it's just the way I was treated that really broke my
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  heart by people that look exactly like me.
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  I'm not even asking for you to be nice to me.
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  Just be fair. Like talk to me like I'm a man
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  just like you. It is the audacity for me.
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  Stacey Finish. Stacey Finish.
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  How can you come into a country without a valid visa regardless
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  you thought you could make the application at the airport?
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  What if we don't have lights? What if NEPA took lights and
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  there was no Internet access and we they said they couldn't see?
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  Because honestly, I don't know why he's complaining because if
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  it were any other country he wouldn't just get into it, you
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  know, book a flight and entire country without sorting his
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  visas out. Even if you know you're
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  travelling and you there are countries you can enter without
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  visas, there's no problem. I don't know which blue passport
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  he's talking about, but there are countries there that's, you
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  know, have visa waivers. If you're going into a country
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  where you require an entry visa, why don't you apply before you
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  go to any country? Why don't you check he's talking
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  about Sen Senegal and Gambia? I don't know, like do you, did
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  you come with the passport? Because I think Senegal is West
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  Africa. ECOWAS.
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  Did you come with your Senegal passports to allow you entry?
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  No, you came with a blue passports and you're speaking
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  English, talking about Harvard, You met Nigerians, you want to
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  come and create content. I think he's pained because he
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  spent money. He's talking about charity, he's
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  talking about fundraisers. You've not been to Nigeria
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  before. He did not apply for visa.
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  You were busy spending money making connections to come and
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  raise money in Nigeria to come and create use us as content
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  Nigeria immigration. You do this one and even said
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  that somebody you know told him that yes Nigeria is corrupt, but
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  this one they did well. That is just see finish the
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  level of the audacity, the audacity for him to even make
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  this video trying to make Nigeria look bad.
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  How can you go to a country where you don't have a valid
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  visa? Make it make sense.
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  Anyway, let me know what you think.
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  Do you think he has a point? Do you think that they should
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  have allowed him entire country without a visa or do you think
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  that they would? They should have processed his
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  visa at that point. It doesn't even.
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  Would you fly to America without a visa and expect them to
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  process your visa at the point of entry?
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  Would you do that? The answer is no, you wouldn't,
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  You would not. Hey, let me know what you think.
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  Do you sympathise with him for the way he was treated or do you
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  think that you know he deserves everything he got?
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  Nigeria happened to him. Let me know what you think.
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  Bye bye.