An earlier report that the Chinese government has opened “overseas police service stations” across the globe, including Nigeria, to observe its nationals living abroad.
This was contained in an investigative report titled, “110 OVERSEAS: Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild, which covers China’s efforts to fight “fraud” committed by its citizens living in other countries. ”
But reacting to the report on Wednesday, one of the Chinese officials who spoke with the Vanguard denied opening police stations in Nigeria and other countries where its nationals reside, adding that Safeguard Defenders’‘ 110 Overseas Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild’) is fake news.”
The top Chinese officials said, “There is no such station in Nigeria or everywhere. This is because any sovereign country cannot allow other countries to set up their own (police) stations on their land. This is common sense, right?
“Also, there is only one category of outreach services for Chinese communities so China does not have any intention or spare energy to run police stations outside its shores. I hope that maybe you can make an objective report.
Speaking further the source said, “You know in Nigeria, there are a lot of insecurity issues happening almost every day. I cannot remember, maybe September or August or July or June, there were terrorists, bandits, they had kidnapped a lot of innocent persons, and also among these innocent persons, there were some Chinese nationals.
“What I mean (by the outreach services) is that every nation has its mission to care for and help their own nationals. Says another source from the China side.
He continued, “So they have no right, they have no power to decide or command Nigeria government or police forces, what they can only do is to assist or play the outside role to help the Chinese nationals.
“So the fundamental reason or factor is the locals and the Nigerian government, so we fully respect the sovereignty issue. So there is no sovereignty issue, so the report ( Safeguard Defenders’‘ 110 Overseas Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild’) is fake news.”
