My name is Cheryl D. Uzamere. I am the wife and permanent residence marriage scam victim of Senator Ehigie Edobor Uzamere (see http://www.thecrimesofsenatoruzamere.com).
There is something that I believe the Nigerian community must come to realize:
As an African American woman who was victimized by Senator Uzamere 28 years ago, I have become acutely aware of the trail of crimes that Nigerian men like Senator Uzamere have left in their wake. Like a tempest whose harsh winds blow indiscriminately and damage anything in her path, Nigerian scammers have an international reputation that is, unfortunately, negative.
Please do not take this to imply that the young man who was killed did not have his LEGAL rights violated. His legal rights were violated.
However, sometimes there is a big difference between what is LEGAL and what the public perceives is JUST.
Based on the money that my husband paid his immigration attorney, my husband's action to use a fake name to marry me, and then to have his immigration attorney hide evidence of my husband's real name to help my husband avoid paying child support for our daughter, while appearing to be LEGAL, was anything but JUST.
You can't step into a man's house, violate his home and his womenfolk and then say to him "punish me this way because I have rights." Nigerians would not go for that nonsense anymore than anyone else would.
While what happened to the young Nigerian man is not legal, to the eyes of Spain and other countries whose citizens have been scammed by Nigerians, what happened to him was just.
Until the conscience of the Nigerian community changes so that what is lawful and what is just are synonymous, Nigerians will find themselves the victims of international vigilante mobs that discard what is "legal" for what they believe is just.
Personally, I agree with them.
Cheryl D. Uzamere
Wife and Victim of Senator Ehigie E. Uzamere
There is something that I believe the Nigerian community must come to realize:
As an African American woman who was victimized by Senator Uzamere 28 years ago, I have become acutely aware of the trail of crimes that Nigerian men like Senator Uzamere have left in their wake. Like a tempest whose harsh winds blow indiscriminately and damage anything in her path, Nigerian scammers have an international reputation that is, unfortunately, negative.
Please do not take this to imply that the young man who was killed did not have his LEGAL rights violated. His legal rights were violated.
However, sometimes there is a big difference between what is LEGAL and what the public perceives is JUST.
Based on the money that my husband paid his immigration attorney, my husband's action to use a fake name to marry me, and then to have his immigration attorney hide evidence of my husband's real name to help my husband avoid paying child support for our daughter, while appearing to be LEGAL, was anything but JUST.
You can't step into a man's house, violate his home and his womenfolk and then say to him "punish me this way because I have rights." Nigerians would not go for that nonsense anymore than anyone else would.
While what happened to the young Nigerian man is not legal, to the eyes of Spain and other countries whose citizens have been scammed by Nigerians, what happened to him was just.
Until the conscience of the Nigerian community changes so that what is lawful and what is just are synonymous, Nigerians will find themselves the victims of international vigilante mobs that discard what is "legal" for what they believe is just.
Personally, I agree with them.
Cheryl D. Uzamere
Wife and Victim of Senator Ehigie E. Uzamere
