Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today accused a Nigerian diplomat of sending offensive text messages to a woman police officer following the violence after last week's murder of a Nigerian. "He (the diplomat) was wrongly briefed who went to the extent of sending offensive SMSes to our Superintendent of Police," Parrikar told reporters at Vasco town, without naming the diplomat. A Nigerian diplomat, who was recently in Goa, had reportedly warned of "repercussions" against Indians living in Nigeria if his fellow countrymen were harassed in Goa.

Parrikar said the diplomat who arrived in Goa, had not come through a proper channel. "As a foreign diplomat, he should have come through the Ministry of External Affairs. I never got any communication that anyone is coming," the chief minister said. He said the "misunderstanding" between Nigeria and India is a fallout of wrong media reporting. "I never said that Nigerians would be deported, but what I had said was that illegally staying foreigners including Nigerians would be deported," Parrikar said. Nigeria had earlier issued a note verbale to India conveying concerns over the security of its nationals and demanded immediate arrest of those who killed a Nigerian in Goa last week, prompting the government to assure it that all issues will be addressed in a cooperative manner.