xenophobic attack update

The recent attack in South Africa had cost Nigerians staying in the country a sum of $422,000 (84,000,000 million Naira). The amount was compiled together by the Nigerian Union in South Africa and handover to the Nigeria's consul-general to South Africa, Ambassador (Mrs) Uche J Ajulu Okeke.

                            

While speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria via phone, the president of Nigerians in South Africa said :

The Nigerian Union in South Africa has completed documentation of the losses suffered by Nigerians to xenophobic attacks. Nigerians lost more than 4.6 million Rand or N84 million during the attacks. A mechanic workshop owned by a Nigerian in Jeppes, near Johannesburg, for example was completely burnt with 11 cars inside it. The loss is put at more than one million Rand or N20 million.

We have made representations to the Federal government, we are also hoping that things work out with the South African government, there will be a way to compensate the affected Nigerians so as to enable them go back to their normal lives. The tension is less now. The South African government has come out in full force to check the attacks

More than 50 Nigerians were displaced during the attacks. The union has assisted them to return home. The union is also planning to assist a family to move to a new accommodation because the present home is not safe

The consul-general has appealed to the federal government to assist the affected citizens in South Africa.

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South Africa army

The South African government will be using the military to tackle Xenophobic attacks on foreigners in the country. This is coming as Nigeria, Zimbabwe and China governments criticized the government for failing to protect foreigners on its soil, allowing South Africans to murder and loot from foreigners in the country.

                      

Speaking to the press about the force of the military, Defence minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said :

                           There will be those who will be critical of this decision but the vulnerable will appreciate it.

The Xenophobic war had seen foreigners hiding away from the eye of the locals. A Zimbabwean couple was shot in the Johannesburg shanty town of Alexandra on Monday night but survived.

Hundreds of Malawians marched on South Africa's High Commission in the capital Lilongwe on Tuesday, demanding charges be laid against King Zwelithini amid calls for a boycott of South African businesses.

Malawi's Information Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa, said on Monday two Malawians were killed in the attacks and that efforts were under way to repatriate about 3,000 of its nationals.

In Zambia, two private commercial radio stations have stopped playing South African music.

Nigerians also blocked a telecommunication office, MTN owned by South African entrepreneur to condemn the attack on their citizens living in the country. Nigerians have also called to boycott other South African businesses in the country as a mode of protest.

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