A Nigerian lady known as @dunchichi on Twitter has bagged a one-year jail term in the United Arab Emirates after she posted a video showing how Nigerian nationals were detained and maltreated at the Dubai International Airport on social media.
The video that put her in trouble was shared on Twitter on August 31 on her handle where she talked about how she and other Nigerians were illegally detained at the airport despite possessing valid visas.
While captioning the video, she wrote: “I’m at Dubai International Airport, and myself and some tiger Nigerians with valid visas are being held in a room hours after arriving with no explanation and no information on what we can do. Please help me. There’s more than 20 of us.”
Meanwhile, @jerrydoubles, who claimed to be the lady’s relative, took to Twitter to announce that @dunchichi had been jailed for an offense relating to her earlier post in Dubai which the UAE government say is related to cybercrime.
He tweeted: “It is sad and regrettably heartrending to tell you all that @dunchichi was sentenced on 12th Oct 22, to 1yr in jail in Dubai. Her family is devastated and Nigeria didn’t save her.
“Her sentence came from the backdrop that she got a family visa to travel. But in fact, she was there with her sister. It got messy & complicated, she was released on arrival after being detained for several hours, only to be sentenced when she was returning to Nigeria.
“They are capitalizing on the fact that she made a video and then posted them on her Twitter timeline to narrate the ordeal. They said it’s cybercrime in their country. She went ahead to delete it. Still, that didn’t soften them. Now she is jailed #justicefordinci,” he wrote in a series of tweets.
He added that the victim’s family is planning to protest at the UAE Embassy in Abuja and asked other interested Nigerians in the Federal Capital Territory to join them in the protest.
He tweeted: “If you stay in Abuja or know someone who does and would love to join us.”
