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In a strange development the Chinese government has established what is considered “Police Service Stations” in Nigeria and two other African countries, namely: Lesotho and Tanzania. In an elaborate exposure, Safeguard DEFENDERS, https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/230000-policing-expands, a human right NGO, x-rayed the situational realities of the operations of the police service stations. Safeguard DEFENDERS throws more light on the substance of the establishment of the police service centres and stations, “the overseas service stations are primarily set up to conduct a series of seemingly administrative tasks to aid overseas Chinese in their community of residence abroad, but they also serve a far more sinister and wholly illegal purpose. While the evidence available so far suggests most transnational policing operations are carried out through the online tools of the domestically operated “overseas station”, some official anecdotes of official operations explicitly cite the active involvement of the Hometown Associations on the ground in tracking and pursuing targets indicated by the local Public Security Bureau or Procuratorate in China”. And “through the establishment of overseas service centers, Qingtian County Police has made breakthroughs in its overseas pursuit of fugitives. Since 2018, the Qingtian police have detected and solved six criminal cases related to overseas Chinese, successfully arrested a red notice fugitive, and persuaded two suspects to surrender under the assistance from the Overseas centers.”
In the same vein the Chinese government has developed the conduct of prohibitive measures that determine countries Chinese nationals are not allowed to live in freely, these countries are termed the “Nine Forbidden Countries”; this is considered a barrier against freewill. Safeguard DEFENDERS reports: “The designation of “nine forbidden countries” for Chinese citizens to travel to or reside in under a local emergency notice within the campaign, show the extreme lengths the authorities will go to in their crackdown and the ease by which a citizen might find him- or herself a suspect. The regulation treats everyone as a suspect until proven innocent.” The countries tagged the Nine Forbidden Countries are: Turkey, UAE, Myanmar [Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, also known as Burma, it is a country in Southeast Asia] , Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines and Indonesia.
On Sovereignty issues and Concerns:
In a recent report on China overseas police station in VOA News, Laura Harth, a co-author of the report, said “the Chinese Communist party has long tried to control and monitor overseas Chinese through what it calls “United Front Work” organizations. “A lot of the overseas Chinese hometown associations, United Front Work organizations, we’ve known they’ve been involved in, let’s say, controlling — patrolling in a way — the overseas community. But what we’re now seeing, and what came out of this report, what I think also in staggering numbers from the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, is how all these systems are increasingly being integrated. …They want to instill that fear — that you are not safe anywhere.” She continued: “Equally worrying is the fact that democratic governments are apparently not very aware or even concerned about this happening on their soil in violation of their territorial sovereignty, really undermining basic freedoms, human rights of individuals that are residing within their territories.”
Nigeria should be concerned about this development, and the critical question is: are our securities eyes on this development?
