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Lawmaker Says Immediate Actions Needed To Save Nigerians In South Africa

A Nigerian lawmaker has stressed the need for the government to take an immediate decision about the recall of the Nigerian High Commissioner to South … Continue reading Lawmaker Says Immediate Actions Needed To Save Nigerians In South Africa


Abike dabiriA Nigerian lawmaker has stressed the need for the government to take an immediate decision about the recall of the Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa to hold discussions and take an action that will save Nigerians from xenophobic attacks.

Members of the House of Representatives had on Thursday condemned the attacks on foreigners in South Africa, demanding that the Presidency should recall the Ambassador.

On a Channels Television’s Programme, Sunrise Daily on Friday, The chairman of the House Committee on Diapora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said that the motion, which had been forwarded to the High Commissioner was advisory in the interest of human lives.

“The resolution to recall the High Commissioner has been forwarded to the South African ambassador. We will have a meeting with him next week.

“In the interest of the welfare and lives of Nigerians in SA. It has to be immediate and impromptu. The action must be taken immediately. We can’t afford to see Nigerians killed.

“Nigeria must put its feet down and be very decisive about it,” she said.

Mrs Dabiri-Erewa further condemned the treatments that Nigerians receive in South Africa, explaining that some Nigerians are in prisons even when they have no business being there.

According to her, a Nigerian defending himself when he was attacked by some South Africans was arrested charged to court for attempted murder.

On the issues of xenophobic attacks that has claimed more than five lives, she said: “It has been happening but not to this level. It is not something new. In the prisons we saw Nigerians who should not be in the prison. They can’t pretend that there is no discrimination against blacks in South Africa”.

Xenophobic attacks have increased in Kwazulu Natal province in South Africa, a situation that the South African High Commissioner in Nigeria, Lulu Mnguni, said was caused by the limited resources.

Locals are lamenting that foreigners have dominated the area, taking away their jobs and having so much access to the limited resources.

“Go foreigners, go,” the locals have continued to sing in protest.