Fisayo Soyombo, an investigative journalist has said UK-based Nigerian YouTuber, Emdee Tiamiyu should be scrutinized by the United Kingdom (UK) Home Office following a recent interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Tiamiyu, who is known for advising Nigerians on studying in the United Kingdom (UK), declared that many of them were not looking for new qualifications, but to start a new life abroad.
Uk-based Nigerian YouTuber, Emdee Tiamiyu who teaches his fellow Nigerians how to relocate abroad, is being called out by Twitter users for telling the British Authorities that his people immigrating to the UK 🇬🇧 through the student visa route are not really planning to go study… pic.twitter.com/bTYIpNFGc7
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He said most of those who applied for schooling in the country only considered it an alternative means to escape from Nigeria.
Emdee Tiamiyu said, “The student route is more like an answered prayer. It is a big bracket that’s able to take a lot of people, the ordinary people.
“We’re beginning to see that a lot of people just hide behind the studentship. So the student thing is not real, it’s not like they need the degrees,” he added.
Tiamiyu, who is based in Birmingham, granted the interview in the wake of the new immigration rules that will prevent Nigerian students, and others studying in the UK, from bringing their families as dependants except under specific circumstances.
Under the new rule, which will take effect in January 2024, the UK will remove the permission for international students to switch out of the student route and into work routes before their studies have been completed to prevent misuse of the visa system.
Emdee Tiamiyu Should Be Scrutinised By The UK Home Office Says Fisayo Soyombo
Fisayo Soyombo, who felt displeased by Tiamiyu’s submission tweeted that Tiamiyu is an unscrupulous individual who should be scrutinized by the UK Home Office.
His tweet reads thus, “On the one hand, if all the Nigerians he has “helped” to the UK via study visas were interested in immigration rather than education, then Emdee Tiamiyu is an unscrupulous individual who should be scrutinised by the UK Home Office.
“His opinion is the very antithesis of the Nigerian can-do spirit. I personally know numerous Nigerians who are interested in nothing but British education and the opportunity it affords them to advance their education and careers, effectively bolstering the UK’s skilled workforce while very painfully draining Nigeria’s. Tiamiyu has a dubious network if he hasn’t been encountering such Nigerians.
“On the other hand, the grouping of all Nigerians as a corner-cutting, disingenuous lot by Tiamiyu, coupled with the UK’s ban on dependant visa for international students, is yet another reminder that there is nothing better than building our own country.
“Wherever we go, we will always be second-class citizens, sometimes even betrayed by our own Tiamiyu-esque kinsmen”.
