FROM Lateef Taiwo

A France based Edo State born Nigerian Woman, Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese, has appealed to the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission and it’s Chairman, Hon. Abike Dabiri – Erewa, to come to her aid in recovering her money paid her as compensation for wrongful dismissal by her employers, Sari Brasserie SKYROS owned by one Mr. Primon whom she worked with directly while in the establishment and other valuables allegedly taken away from her by the French Police on trumped up charges ochestrated by the said Mr Primon.

In a letter of reminder by Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese through her solicitors, S.O. Agwinede (Esq) with number SOA/GEN/VOL.1/26/05/23 dated 16/05/2023 and titled: Reminder- Dehumanising, Dastard and Cruel Treatment Meted Out on a Nigerian Citizen in Nice, France, Re: Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese, adverts the Commission to its earlier letter of complaint on the issue with number SOA/GEN/VOL.1/17/03/20, dated 21 March 2020 which was received by the Commission on 25 September 2020.

In the earlier letter of appeal to the commission dated 21 March 2020, Nosakhale’s lawyers chronicled the genesis of her travails in the hands of Mr. Primon and the French Police which started with the alleged demand for sex from Ehi Nosakhale Ese, by her immediate boss, Mr Primon during the pendency of her marriage to her Italian husband, Mr Fiore Davide; her wrongful dismissal from Mr Primon’s establishment flowing from her refusal to consent to the sexual demands of Mr Primon, Mr Primon’s refusal to pay her compensation after wrongful termination of her employment, the adjudication by the French Labour and Commerce Court, to her ordeal in the hands of the French Police on the prodding of Mr Primon and how she presently lives on the streets of France.

According to the letter, “Although Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese painstakingly and politely explained to MR. PRIMON why she cannot consent to his sexual request and demand since she is lawfully married to the aforementioned Italian and the said marriage is still subsisting, the said MR. PRIMON refused to take a NO for an answer. When Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese stood her ground, Mr. Primon summarily sacked her from his employment without any Terminal Benefits and also without letter of dismissal to enable her get unemployment benefits as a French citizen.

“Inspite of Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese’s plea, entreaties and constant requests for these termination documents, Mr. Primon refused to oblige her. Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese was consequently constrained to lodge a formal report of this irregular dismissal to LABOUR INSPECTOR BLOC 2, Nice, France. The said Labour Inspector wrote to Mr. Primon directing him to pay her all Termination benefits and withheld salaries as Mr. Primon was paying her €1,800 instead of the agreed salary of €2,400, Mr. Primon neither acknowledged the Labour Inspector Bloc 2’s letter nor carried out the directive contained therein. Consequently, she was advised to report Mr. Primon to COUNSEIL de PRUD’ HOMMES de NICE, SECTION COMMERCE.

The said Labour and Commerce Court directed Mr. Primon to come and hand over all her Terminal Benefits to her in Court including her salaries. For fear of pains of sanction by the said Court, Mr. Primon obeyed and complied with the Court’s Orders. As he was handing over the cheque to Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese, Mr. Primon threatened Ms Ehi Nosakhale Ese with the following words:

“If your lawyer wins this case (case to pay up dues due to the wrongful dismissal), nobody will see your dead body. The Labour and Commerce Court finally made its award for her wrongful dismissal in May, 2015. The cheque for the awarded damages was released to her in April, 2016.

She said, “True to his threat quoted above, Mr. Primon started using the French Police to be laying all forms of trumped up criminal charges against her and the Police brutal harassment commenced on the 10th day of May, 2016 when Mr. Primon instigated the Brigadier de Police Damez Francious at 28’s invitation to their office in Nice, France”.

While validating the contents of her letter to the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission through her lawyers in a telephone interview, Ms Ese Nosakhale Ehi said :”They really dealt with me, I was between life and death, they took me to the hospital to issue a certificate of death for my person, but God was so kind I woke up before the doctor came.

She stated further that, They asked her what happened which she explained that , They took her to court with all those pictures you are seeing. So when I left the hospital I sued them for damages because they have destroyed my life, I cannot stand, I cannot move, for seven years now I’ve not touched my head to comb my hair. So when they saw that I sued them, they looked for two Nigerians, gave them documents to testify against me that I am the one that trafficked them to Europe.

They sent me to prison for nothing. They destroyed me, they sent me to prison. It was really shocking. I wrote letters to the Nigerian Embassy several times, but they never allowed that letter to go. But after releasing me from prison they took me to deportation camp. It’s there God answered my prayers,. They came on the 10th of July 2018, they took me to Embassy. It was horrible when the Nigerian Ambassador saw me. She now asked me what happened, I now told her. I told her I came to France as an Erasmus student, (European student exchange programme). I narrated all my ordeals to her. She then asked the police, ‘but you did not tell me that police rapped her, you did not tell me that you people destroyed her. The police did not tell them they raped me.

“The Ambassador now said but you did not tell us this woman was beaten. But she is telling me now, but you said I should give you papers to go and dump her in Nigeria.
“I was rapped by the police, I was operated on, I cannot seat down as am talking to you, I cannot seat down directly on the chair, I was operated upon on my anus. They rapped me on my anus. I was operated in the hospital, evidence are there. I told Ambassador they rapped me, they gave me a chair to seat on I couldn’t seat down direct. Our Ambassador asked them, ‘can our policemen rape your women in Nigeria?’ She cried. She asked, did you tell me that you rapped her?
They said no. Did you tell me that you destroyed this woman? They said no. The Ambassador now said it’s your doctor who is telling us this woman is not well. Take this woman, you people should go and treat her and come back. Since 2018 they have not gone back to the Ambassador to tell them this is what is going on.
When I left the prison they took me outside, I’ve been living outside like a dog.”

Her letter to the Commission through her lawyers is pleading with the Commission to assist her retrieve the money paid to her as compensation from Mr. Primon and all other of her savings allegedly stolen by the Police on the instigation of Mr Primon and other items stolen from her which include golden jewelries, vintage wines, shoes and bags and other personal effects.