The Comoros appoints first Honorary Consul-General for Nigeria

The Union of Comoros has appointed Mr. Donald Roy Joseph Abed as its first Honorary Consul-General for Nigeria. The island African nation opened its honorary consulate in Nigeria following the approval granted to the country by the Federal Government.

This appointment is contained in a note sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Union of the Comoros to Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Ministry (Protocol Department).

The note dated December 10, 2022, said the country is pleased with the approval for the opening of its consulate in Nigeria and its appointed consul, Mr Donald Roy Joseph Abed.

It said the gesture would further strengthen diplomatic ties between the two countries.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Union of the Comoros is pleased with this decision which will further contribute to the strengthening of the ties of friendship between our two countries,” it added. Donald Roy Joseph Abed is an experienced diplomat with many years of expertise.

The Nigerian government had written to the Island nation on November 10, 2022, informing it that their requests sent in October 2021 has been granted.
The letter read: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Protocol Department) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in charge of the Diaspora and Francophonic of the Union of the Comoros and with reference to the latter’s Note No: 22-031/MAECI/CAB/Chancellerie/fai dated 29th October, 2021 has the honour to convey the approval of the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the request for the establishment of an Honorary Consulate in Abuja, Nigeria.

“The Government of Nigeria has also assented to the nomination of Mr Donald Roy Joseph Abed as the First Honorary Consul of the Union of Comoros to the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“The nominee may now approach the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for documentation and other necessary ceremony.’ President Muhammadu Buhari had while meeting with Azali Assoumani, the President of the Union of Comoros in Addis Ababa, during African Union meeting, said he takes the existing good neighbourly relations between Nigeria and the Union of Comoros Islands very important, and would brief his successor on the need to maintain it.

Assoumani just took over as the Chairperson of the African Union for the year 2023 sage for white teens” and – using “cis-het”, a description of a heterosexual person who identifies with their birth gender – he added that “we are existing under’ a ‘cis-het white patriarchy.”

Oki, who until last Friday was a voting member of the 69-strong BMA council, told The Sun UK: “I am disappointed that these comments, which are my personal views, are being taken without the context such complex subject areas deserve.”

DailyMail UK approached Dr. Oki through the BMA. A BMA spokesperson said: “Dr. Oki has been removed from taking part in any and all BMA business with immediate effect and the BMA will be undertaking an external independent investigation.”

His comments provoked fury among Tory Members of Parliament (MPs). The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

Conservative MP Ben Bradley told DailyMail UK: “This is total nonsense and shows just how divisive the BMA ruling council really is. If he wants to understand the “cis-het white patriarchy” he should talk to the blokes of Mansfield who’ve had to graft their whole lives to keep the light on for others.”
He added: “The BMA leadership should stop spouting radical comments like these, stop making everything about race and get on with putting an end to the strikes.”

It comes after MailOnline revealed this week that another medical student who fervently pushed for NHS strikes missed last week’s four-day walkout – because she was recovering from private liposuction.

Eilidh Garrett has spent months cheering on junior doctors through her influential social media presence and attacked the government for its lack of ‘moral decency’, conduct during strike talks and refusal to budge on pay.

The 26-year-old has yet to qualify as a junior doctor, but believes they deserve more than a 35 per cent pay rise – the huge sum being demanded by the BMA.
She has also previously told her followers she only wanted to become a doctor for the money.

But unlike Dr. Oki, Miss Garrett is a medical student, meaning she cannot legally take industrial action because she does not hold a contract with the NHS.
Yet she has been hugely vocal in promoting the walkouts, racking up millions of views on her pro-strike Twitter posts and attending a previous picket line in support.

Dr. Oki, who studied at the University of Dundee, is now a foundation-year-one doctor in South Thames in London. Meanwhile, friends of Oki led by Samantha Gordon started have started a petition tagged “Support Dr. Kayode Oki – BMA Reverse the suspension, stop the investigation.”

So, far 1, 883 have signed the petition, which requires 2,500 to get attention. It reads: “Dr. Kayode Oki has been an active member of the doctors union, the British Medical Association (BMA) and a member of its Council for two years. Two days ago The Daily Mail and The Sun published old tweets by Dr. Oki rightly calling out systemic and structural racism in medicine and British society in an effort to undermine the junior doctors strikes. But instead of supporting him, the BMA have suspended him and launched an investigation into his views. We are signing this petition calling on the BMA to lift the suspension of Dr. Oki, stop the investigation and instead censure The Daily Mail and The Sun for their disgraceful attacks on the integrity of our junior doctors.”

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