The Chinese government has opened a network of secret and underground police stations in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
China has opened secret police stations in Nigeria and ย over 20 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. They used the excuse of efforts to tackle the increasing criminal activities of its citizens abroad to carry out this illegitimate act.
These findings were contained in an investigative statement titled, โ110 Overseas Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild.โ
In an investigation carried out by Safeguard Defender, they revealed that, โRather than cooperating with local authorities in the full respect of territorial sovereignty, it prefersโฆto cooperate with (United Front-linked) overseas โNGOsโ or โcivil society associationsโ across the ๏ฌve continents, setting up an alternative policing and judicial system within third countries, and directly implicating those organisations in the illegal methods employed to pursue โfugitives.โ
This activity by the Chinese government is a blatant disregard for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Nigeria and the other nations where the Chinese government has set up those secret police stations.
Apart from Nigeria, other African nations China has set up its international โpolice stationsโ are Lesotho and Tanzania, the report disclosed.
As part of a massive nationwide campaign to combat fraud and telecommunication fraud by Chinese citizens living abroad, Chinese authorities claimed that from April 2021 to July 2022, 230,000 nationals had been, โpersuaded to returnโ to face criminal proceedings in China, explained the report.