The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has unveiled the identity of a Canada-based woman who openly threatened to kill fellow Nigerians of Yoruba and Benin (Edo State) stock living in the North American country.
In a video clip circulating on X, a woman’s voice is heard making anti-Yoruba, anti-Benin comments in what appears to be a virtual meeting on TikTok.
Dabiri-Erewa, on Wednesday, August 28, identified the woman as Amaka Patience Sunnberger.
The woman, who spoke mainly in Pidgin English, said: “Record me very well; it’s time to start poisoning the Yoruba and the Benin. Put poison for all una food for work. Put poison for una water, make una dey kpai one by one”.
The woman vowed that she would take poisonous substances to her workplace in her Ontario, Canada base, and poison any Yoruba or Benin person working there.
She claimed that her comment was in response to the “hate” against the Igbo. Some other voices could be heard, interjecting and prodding her.
Various reactions have since greeted the issue.
Dabiri-Erewa’s X followers drew her attention to equally pejorative and ethnically-biased rants by Yoruba ethnic nationalities against the Igbo:
You will quickly jump on this.
The one Lagospedia posted did not drive you into work.— David Brand, MD (@DOgbijo) August 28, 2024
Hello Abike,
If you do not start here, then there is something wrong somewhere…
Let’s even start with your mother that called her Pot Agbari Ojukwu. pic.twitter.com/FatYLZ6SwJ
— Ñtú Mágbúrú Ényí of Igboland. (@MichealEgwuonwu) August 28, 2024
I hope you will keep us updated with this case when she is arrested alongside the rest of them.
Also, can you maintain same energy in using the security agencies in Nigeria to find and bring to justice the person behind the @lagospefia handle that started the #IgbosMustGo
I am…— Chibueze (@excelentspirit) August 28, 2024
This woman have to face the law for her statement because it was wrong of her but @abikedabiri this attached video is 2019 and 2013 that woman statement and this Oba statement/ this tweet no different they are both hate speech pic.twitter.com/sradP9YZ9C
— Fugar 20.10.20 🇳🇬🇲🇾🇬🇭🇺🇸 🇲🇽 (@Atentemente) August 29, 2024
Other netizens voiced their opinion about the national plague:
Aunty @abikedabiri please everyone on that tiktok live with her are all accomplices , they all must be traced!!! Everyone of them
— ÀFÖNJÁ AMÖDÁ 🦇 (@AmodaOgunlere) August 28, 2024
Good. Please, they should and they should ensure she’s kept away from working in any public place for life.
— Iyalaya (@lollylarry1) August 28, 2024
One can see her heart through her face.
— Nwo-Diali 𓃵 (@Manlike_ED) August 28, 2024
Use same energy to call out @aonanuga1956 for his reckless statements during the election if not y’all bunch of mad people
— Anambra Supremacy.NEAR (@chibestvalen) August 28, 2024
the hate is unprecedented from all sides, it’s a spill over from the last election in Nigeria, mostly in Lagos that ppl where denied access to exercise their civil duties, y’all planted this seed that has spread to Europe, America. and ediotttts are toiling that same line now. pic.twitter.com/7nhQSDUNal
— King. Imas. (@papiJayIvieDenz) August 28, 2024
funny and sad thing about these people is if she gets deported to nigeria, there’s more likelihood she will settle in yoruba land amongst the people she hates and wants to poison than return to the southeast where her kinsmen are. these guys really have mental problems.
— khalifa (@khalifaoyin) August 28, 2024
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