Goa Tourism Minister Demands Strict Law to Deport Nigerians

Goa Tourism Minister demanded strict laws to deport Nigerians claiming that they often come in conflict with the law.

Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar (Photo: IANS)

• Amid a string of attacks on Africans in Delhi, Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar on Monday demanded a strict law to deport Nigerians, claiming that they come in conflict with Indian law so as to extend their stay and indulge in drugs and other crimes.
  
• The BJP leader’s remarks come a day after a 39-year-old local woman was allegedly raped at knifepoint by a Nigerian at Parra village. An Ola cab driver in Delhi was also attacked by 6 African nationals on 30 May.
  
• “They try to stay in Goa or India and indulge in drugs and other unwanted things,” Parulekar said, while replying to a query on a spate of attacks on African nationals in Delhi, which are alleged to be racial in nature.
  
• Recalling an incident two years ago, in which a group of African nationals had blocked the national highway at Porvorim near Panaji over the murder of one of their countrymen, the minister said, “We should have a strict law where we can deport them. But unfortunately there is no such law in India at the moment.”
  

(With PTI inputs.)