NIGERIA
Released workers vow to stay in Nigeria
The Sunday Nation

NIGERIA: -- Four Thai workers from Udon Thani who were kidnapped in Nigeria, have been released unharmed and are insisting they will continue to work there, Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul said yesterday.

Surapong said he spoke on the phone to one of the four workers. He said the men, abducted last week while travelling to work at a fish farm on the Niger River, were taken and used as a bargaining chip by a group seeking claims to the local fish farming business.

Surapong said he was told they were well cared for while held captive and released after the "bargaining" was completed. He dismissed rumours that a Bt10-million ransom was paid for the workers' release. He said he would visit the four during his trip to Nigeria from tomorrow and Tuesday.

-- The Nation 2013-08-18

Good excuse for a taxpayer paid first class trip with staff and luxury accommodations. The Thai workers "vowed" to stay in Nigeria. One would have to wonder if they see a money maker here by repeating the process again.

He's going overseas without YL ? That could get him fired.

Maybe after Nigeria he could fly up to Egypt and give them the benefit of the Thai experience personally, it would look at the Security Council.

He dismissed rumours that a Bt10-million ransom was paid for the workers' release.

yes it wasnt THB 10 million in ransom... in all likelyhood it was THB 15 million....THB 10 million to the Nigerians and THB 5 million to Thai goverment officials...

They worried they will lose their bond if they come home?

There must be money involved from their point of view. Losing a good salary, their bond and re-payment to loan sharks before they left the country and if they can't send the remittance their families will love them.

Hope the FM manages to sell some rice, while he's there !

Released workers vow to stay in Nigeria

I thought "vowing" was an activity resevered for the Thai elite, now the lo-sos are getting into it, tsk tsk!

Hope the FM manages to sell some rice, while he's there !

Speaking of scams maybe he can pick up a few pointers on the 419 scam. After all it takes a scammer to know a scammer.

Good excuse for a taxpayer paid first class trip with staff and luxury accommodations. The Thai workers "vowed" to stay in Nigeria. One would have to wonder if they see a money maker here by repeating the process again.

A Company I worked for, employed 2,500 Thai workers in Libya. Overseas Thai workers pay a lot of money to job brokers to obtain these jobs. The money is often borrowed from loan sharks so they cannot afford to return to Thailand, as they cannot pay them back on local Thai salary. I don't see them as money makers deliberately getting kidnapped. It is no joke, a friend of mine, Ken Bigley from Bangkok was kidnapped and beheaded in Mosul Iraq in 2004. Another friend from the UK was held captive for a long time but eventually was released. A Korean friend was kidnapped by Algerian Al-Qaeda from my Project in the Sahara and left tied up in the Sahara 5kms from the nearest haul road and 250kms from the nearest town.

Good excuse for a taxpayer paid first class trip with staff and luxury accommodations. The Thai workers "vowed" to stay in Nigeria. One would have to wonder if they see a money maker here by repeating the process again.

Maybe they just want to stay because they did not pass the final exam of their "Nigeria scam artists education" yet.

The FM is going to Nigeria, the PM is going to Pakistan and Tajikstan and a mob of cops are going to Australia.

That should help get Thai Air out of the red.

Or do they all get free travel?

Seriously, is this saying that Nigeria is better than Thailand?