Delta State-born Rose Gabriel is heart-broken and feels like a ship abandoned in mid-sea. Her pathetic story could however be a lesson to other Nigerian girls who frolic with expatriates in the country because of the lure of the filthy lucre.
Narrating her experience to our correspondent during a visit to our office in Lagos, Rose recounted how she met and fell for a German named Ferdinand Evers. What she thought was love made in heaven later turned awry when he dumped her after getting her pregnant. Now she is carrying a four-month-old white baby, Gabriela, whose father has disappeared into thin air.
Twenty-nine-year-old Rose had met 41 year-old Ferdinand, a consular attaché with the Consulate-General of Germany, Walter Carrington Street, Lagos, early last year at a wedding in Lagos where the latter professed love to her.
Before long, the sweet-talking German proposed to her, and believing that he was serious she agreed to marry him. But Rose still had her doubts as she suspected her suitor was keeping away some things from her. According to her, “Ferdinand never allowed me to get very close. All I knew about him was that he had a son, but not married. He never agreed that we stay in the embassy. He told me he wanted us to rent an apartment as he wanted to settle down in Nigeria.”
Trouble begins In December 2009, she requested for money from Ferdinand to enable her travel to Port Harcourt for the Christmas holidays. He gave her some money for the trip, but unknown to her, Ferdinand had perfected plans to dump her as he secretly kept a fleet of girls. “It was during that journey I noticed I was pregnant. I phoned to tell him and at first he did not believe me. He told me to go for a pregnancy test, which I did and confirmed to him,” she said.
But Rose said she was shocked when Ferdinand allegedly told her to abort the pregnancy, as he was not ready for marriage at that point. “I told him that was not possible, but he began begging and telling me he was not quite ready yet. I finally agreed and went to a doctor, who told me that N150,000 will be required for the abortion. When I told Ferdinand, he simply replied that abortion could not cost so much. “We argued over the amount and after a while, he stopped picking my calls.
The day he finally did, he gave the phone to a friend, a Nigerian who called me a liar and thief who wanted to frame him up and get money by trick. He had said that an abortion won’t cost more than N10,000,” she said. Determined to prove she was not lying, Rose vowed to keep the pregnancy. By the time Ferdinand came to see her, four months had gone. She therefore rejected the money he brought, as she was not sure an abortion was safe anymore. But she said Ferdinand insisted on her aborting the pregnancy but refused to go with her to the doctors.
Police intimidation Ferdinand apparently changed tactics when his several appeal to Rose failed. He decided to apply some force to intimidate her. One day, a police lady, said to be his friend, warned Rose to leave Ferdinand alone. The two of them had invited her to a private building on Victoria Island in Lagos where he reportedly told her that he wanted to pay her off.
“I decided to play along and I told him to pay N50 million. But he said it was too much. Finally, he reluctantly agreed to pay N10 million,” Rose said, but added that he refused to do anything about it. During the second round of negotiation, which now involved her lawyer, Ferdinand began to sing a different tune, claiming he was not responsible for the pregnancy. He was said to have come to the meeting with a lawyer, who later reportedly invited the police to arrest her. She was taken to the Panti Police Station, where they both wrote statements and asked to return the next week. During her next visit, a police officer advised to take the matter to a civil court.
Shortly after, Ferdinand invited her again so that they could “settle the matter once and for all.” Then she was in Warri. It was when she went to the bank to withdraw money to travel to Lagos to meet him that another trouble started for her. At the bank, she was told there was an alert on her account instructing that she be arrested.
“I was surprised and asked them what the matter was. All they said was that I would soon find out. They took me to the Enerhen Police Station where I was detained with my eight-month-old pregnancy. The next day, the DCO told me that Ferdinand paid N100,000 into my account following kidnap threats from me. I said I was not aware, and that if he did, it must be in respect of money to take care of his unborn child.” Rose said she was detained for four days before she was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Ikeja, Lagos State. By the time she was released, her lawyer advised her to take her case to Interpol as the matter involved an expatriate.
“Despite all I have done, Interpol, like SCID, has done nothing. They told me that they have sent my case to Abuja but the CP (Commissioner of Police) refused to sign the letter. When a police officer told me that as a security person Ferdinand could have talked to the big people in the police and I could not get justice, I got fed up.”
Drama at the Consulate Frustrated beyond measure, Rose accompanied by a reporter had gone to the German Consulate in Lagos a few weeks ago. Even there, she met a very hostile Nigerian security guard, who insisted she produced a letter before she could be allowed into the consulate. When he refused to budge, Rose began to cry. She stood in the rain with the white baby strapped to her back and wept uncontrollably as she moved towards the gate. As if little Gabriela knew what was happening, she too began to cry.
Then a jeep with Germans in it pulled up in front of the gate and the black security guards went to drag her off to let them drive in. One of them, a female, pulled at her shirt and tore it in the process. There was a scuffle, but the Germans simply drove in without a care. But, some sympathetic staff among them told her to go and seek justice outside as they were not sure the German embassy would do anything if she had no help from a strong human rights group.
A friend of Ferdinand, who preferred anonymity, however told our reporter at the consulate that Rose’s estranged lover had been sacked because of his excesses, especially with women.
“Ferdinand had a wife in Germany and could not have married in Nigeria. Due to other sex scandals connected to him, the consulate deemed it fit to send him home. She is not the only one he offended segxwally,” the source said.
Rose has however taken her case before human rights groups and is soliciting their assistance. “I’m a Nigerian citizen and I have my rights. No Nigerian will try this in Germany and get away with it. I will not allow them to ride me in my own country. I appeal to all Nigerians of goodwill and human rights groups to come to my aid,” she lamented.
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Posted: at 25-09-2010 11:24 PM (13 years ago) | Addicted Hero
igbonnanna at 26-09-2010 12:39 PM (13 years ago) (m)
This is good move Rose. May God protect you and your child. Continue the fight. We all signed and accepted that Germany is a legal state, where rule of law is the ultimate. Germans can go to any level to protect themselves and their citizens, but when the axe of law dangles, they surrender.
I therefore, as a Nigerian resident in Germany and have tested the German legal system (bitter and sweet ones), I urge you to intensify efforts, include more Human Rights Organisations to fish out the German wherever he may be. Apart from that, everyone in Germany is in a data bank where the authorities can have access to your data.
Anybody can be fished out. Write to the Youths Office Head Office called "Jungendamt" in Berlin, German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin called "Auswaertiges Amt" c/o. Foreign Office Minister, Mr. Guido Westerwelle, through your lawyers, write to "Karawane" Germany, Human Rights Watch of the United States, Disckriminationsstelle Germany, etc. etc. To get full names and addresses, please Google them. Diskriminationsstelle means Discrimination's Office, etc.
Petition also to the German Embassy. But do not forget, the Embassy has limited actions they can take.
Do not forget, in Germany you must get your legal right as long as you are right in the case. The people and the government can go to any level to proof their case beyond reasonable doubts, like the use of DNA Test in this case at hand, etc. So do make sure that you are right in your submission and claim or the law may turn against you, which can equally be expensive. Law in Germany is no respecter of persons. Everybody is equal before the law. No big man or top people palaver as it is in Nigeria. So check yourself well and be sure of all the data about the Ferdinand, like his true name, date of birth and where he was born, if possible. Although the Embassy may have this, but they are not allowed to expose ones data like, or the Ferdinand can sue them in Germany.
Above all, Germans never play with the rights of kids at all. Children are well protected than in most part of the world. I love Germans for that. So your Gabriela rights supercedes yours and the so-called Ferdinand.
With these FOUR PARTICULAR INFORMATION: Name in full, Date of Birth and Place of Birth, the picture of the baby, then you have the person in your finger tip.
Take care and bye for now.
From Chris, A Nigerian, resident in Germany
Posted: at 26-09-2010 12:39 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
This is good move Rose. May God protect you and your child. Continue the fight. We all signed and accepted that Germany is a legal state, where rule of law is the ultimate. Germans can go to any level to protect themselves and their citizens, but when the axe of law dangles, they surrender.
I therefore, as a Nigerian resident in Germany and have tested the German legal system (bitter and sweet ones), I urge you to intensify efforts, include more Human Rights Organisations to fish out the German wherever he may be. Apart from that, everyone in Germany is in a data bank where the authorities can have access to your data.
Anybody can be fished out. Write to the Youths Office Head Office called "Jungendamt" in Berlin, German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin called "Auswaertiges Amt" c/o. Foreign Office Minister, Mr. Guido Westerwelle, through your lawyers, write to "Karawane" Germany, Human Rights Watch of the United States, Disckriminationsstelle Germany, etc. etc. To get full names and addresses, please Google them. Diskriminationsstelle means Discrimination's Office, etc.
Petition also to the German Embassy. But do not forget, the Embassy has limited actions they can take.
Do not forget, in Germany you must get your legal right as long as you are right in the case. The people and the government can go to any level to proof their case beyond reasonable doubts, like the use of DNA Test in this case at hand, etc. So do make sure that you are right in your submission and claim or the law may turn against you, which can equally be expensive. Law in Germany is no respecter of persons. Everybody is equal before the law. No big man or top people palaver as it is in Nigeria. So check yourself well and be sure of all the data about the Ferdinand, like his true name, date of birth and where he was born, if possible. Although the Embassy may have this, but they are not allowed to expose ones data like, or the Ferdinand can sue them in Germany.
Above all, Germans never play with the rights of kids at all. Children are well protected than in most part of the world. I love Germans for that. So your Gabriela rights supercedes yours and the so-called Ferdinand.
With these FOUR PARTICULAR INFORMATION: Name in full, Date of Birth and Place of Birth, the picture of the baby, then you have the person in your finger tip.
Take care and bye for now.
From Chris, A Nigerian, resident in Germany
good, you have done yourown part as a good citizen , and may GOD the mighty rewards you for that , i do believe the woman is quite inocent , and she had behave bery reasonably too ,i now advice her to make use of all these vital documents provided her in addition to the ones she was having , she suffers alot not in the name of falling in love for a bastard and traitor and a complette animal in human being flesh ,noting is as bad as a foreigner over ridding a citizen right inside her own country , let the human right see into her plight , and let also the police do their own part too , and all those that involved in this very mess must be penalised including the female casanovia police officer, those are the bad ones in the uniform that gives the police itself a bad name , i pray to GOD the mighty and i will continue to do untill she got justice
Posted: at 26-09-2010 02:05 PM (13 years ago) | Grande Master
ikennaya at 26-09-2010 02:14 PM (13 years ago) (m)
igbonnanna...u are a nice guy...i jst hope rose can do rigthly as u have said en her claims are genuine........hmm as 4 my country am beginin 2 hate it 4 dis worst of it all white tearin blacks cloths in her own country kai unbilivable its a shame.......wit useles so cald security personnels, rose if u don know ur rite go and be re-borned.
Posted: at 26-09-2010 02:14 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming
ksurrina at 26-09-2010 03:05 PM (13 years ago) (f)
A girl of 29years living in a country that has so many religions and highly educated persons couldn't learn from other's mistakes! She is not the first but I really hope that others will learn from this. When foreign nationals come to one shore don't be too quick to run into relationships with them, spend time and learning about them. Even here on the internet you meet someone don't be too quick in traveling half the world to meet them because you will end up being disappointed. In every thing be obedient to Jesus Christ, in everything ask the Heavenly Father for His directions. Go and give your life to Jesus Christ so that His father can fight this battle for you. You cannot fight it alone and no humans can either unless our Heavenly Father said so. You were enthralled in lies and you also go beyond what you know is wrong.
Godly WISDOM is to Fear God. His UNDERSTANDING is to resist the devil.
Posted: at 26-09-2010 03:05 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
igbonnanna...u are a nice guy...i jst hope rose can do rigthly as u have said en her claims are genuine........hmm as 4 my country am beginin 2 hate it 4 dis worst of it all white tearin blacks cloths in her own country kai unbilivable its a shame.......wit useles so cald security personnels, rose if u don know ur rite go and be re-borned.
Posted: at 26-09-2010 03:35 PM (13 years ago) | Grande Master
wateva ..... is she the first or last ... am i suppose to feel bad for her?
if you don,t fel bad for er , will you be so happy for what has happen to her , thats why i agree to those who said women were more very wicked than men you never can say what might happen to you too , but i will not wish you fall into this kind mess anyway
Posted: at 26-09-2010 03:49 PM (13 years ago) | Grande Master
mydicksweet at 26-09-2010 06:12 PM (13 years ago) (m)
May God help u out of this mess Rose dont give up that's all i can say keep praying i'm sure God will come to ur rescue.what happened to u will stand as a lession to other's(women)oyibo no be ppl wey una suppose dey trust a wise woman will only be intrested in their money and not to go to the extend of having a baby for him.but anyway the damage has already been done once again goodluck Rose
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