Reason Nigerians suffer depression in UK – Lawyer
A Nigerian legal practitioner, Efuru Nwapa, has said many Nigerians languish in regrets and depression in the United Kingdom because they do not utilise available opportunities.
According to Nwapa, many Nigerians become complacent when they arrive in the UK as she insisted that thousands of immigrants were excelling in various aspects of life after getting new skills.
The UK-based senior consultant solicitor made this known in an interview with PUNCH Diaspora Tales.
“I’ve had the opportunity to speak to a few people whom I met in different circumstances of depression. You just need to develop yourself,” Nwapa said. “You have to go back to school, for example, if you need to get new skills, if you have to leverage the opportunities.”
“So, we have thousands of Nigerians doing extremely well and making us proud in this country (UK) in every sector like education, IT, engineering, and medicine. Nigerians are the best when it comes to that,” she added.
Speaking about needed improvement in the legal profession in Nigeria, Nwapa, who is also an energy sector analyst, said the impunity among lawyers and judges should be curbed.
“And this impunity just goes from the judicial officers to the legal practitioners themselves. There’s impunity everywhere in Nigeria and it’s even worse in the legal profession because people just do what they like; they get away with it because there are no consequences,” she said.
