It’s time to stop embassy ripping off Nigerian and Irish citizens

LAST week there was trouble outside the Nigerian embassy in Dublin as people protested over difficulties in securing passports for which they have been grossly overcharged. Up to 70 people were protesting outside the embassy at Leeson Park.

There was an ugly mood.

Some claim to have paid up to €700 for passports, which were promised within a week, but many have been waiting up to six weeks and even longer. Most seem to have paid €410, whereas the passport costs only €57 in Nigeria, and the embassy in Britain issues a passport for €77. A spokesman at the embassy in London stated that under no circumstances would they ever charge €400 for a passport.