Presenter of BBC Focus on Africa, Peter Okwoche, has disclosed that some Africans do now no longer check-in with their international locations' Embassies or High Commissions after they tour overseas thereby making it tough for the governments to realize the precise range of their residents in the one's international locations. “I, myself, am responsible for it. I were withinside the UK now for 18 years. I even have by no means long gone to check in myself with the Nigerian High Commission here. I've long gone there to resume my passport so they could have a few types of the report however if it involves a census, I even have now no longer long gone there to be a part of a census,” he stated. Okwoche counseled the Zimbabwe Ambassador, whom he defined as an impressive lady for her status in subzero temperature ready to evacuate her residents. “She stated she suspects there are among hundred and 5 hundred Zimbabweans in Ukraine, and the cause why she would not have the precise range is that some Africans after they tour, do not need to move and check in with their Embassies and High Commissions so the officers there has no concept whether or not you're dwelling withinside the united states of America or now no longer”. He defined to 3FM Sunrise Morning Show hosts, Alfred Ocansey and Helen Ampafo on Friday 6 May 2022 that this phenomenon undermines the possibility for the diplomatic missions overseas to increase guide to their residents in instances of misery or crises which include the Ukraine-Russia conflict. “The palms of those governments had been tied in a specific and odd way. You men realize me, I am an apologist for any African government. I maintain them to account, however this narrative that they had been now no longer available doing something changed into absolutely false. At least, those 5 or so international locations that I witnessed there had been doing their quality beneath neath very very tough circumstances” Peter Okwoche emphasized Peter debunked the belief that the African embassies and diplomats in Ukraine and neighboring international locations did now no longer display a good deal hobby and guide to their residents trapped withinside the Ukraine-Russia conflict. “Before I went to Poland, the narrative changed into very terrible on social media that the African leaders had been now no longer doing sufficient to get their college students out of Ukraine. When I ultimately was given to the Polish Border, you presently found out that that social media narrative wasn't true. The Nigerian ambassador was on the border wherein I changed into for 3 days. He did an 18-hour spherical ride simply to get to the border to get a few Nigerian college students out of the border” Peter expressed He stated a number of the harrowing experiences a few Africans went through, including a Nigerian girl pupil and her colleagues who had to walk for 12 hours in subzero temperatures because the Ukrainian infantrymen would not permit them to board the train. Peter Okwoche changed a few perceptions in his documentary for the BBC Africa Eye dubbed 'Not Our war' on 3FM, an Accra-primarily based radio station in Ghana.

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