Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior
special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora
has again condemned the incessant extra judicial killing of Nigerians living in
South Africa.
She said the continuous killings
showed that South African government was downplaying possible retaliation by
Nigeria.
In a statement on Saturday by her
special assistant on media, Abdurrahman Balogun, the presidential aide said
“this is one death, too many.”
She said diplomatic talks between
Nigeria and South Africa to put an early warning signal in place “doesn’t seem
to be working”.
Recall that the Nigeria Union in
South Africa confirmed the
killing of another member,Kingsley Ikeri, at Vryheid town in Kwazulu Natal
Province of South Africa on August 30.
Ikeri, 27, a businessman and
native of Mbaitolu in Imo State, is the second Imo indigene to be so killed in
the last two weeks.
Reacting, Dabiri-Erewa described
the latest extra judicial killing of another Nigerian in South Africa as
“worrying and condemnable”.
She said that the latest gruesome
killing of Ikeri by the Police in South Africa, is “unacceptable to the people
and government of Nigeria”.
While reiterating President
Buhari’s calls to Nigerians to avoid crimes like drug peddling which attracts
stiff penalties, sometimes death, she lamented that the latest incident has
increased the number of Nigerians killed in South Africa through extrajudicial
means in one year.
“The barbaric behaviour of the
perpetrators is not only unacceptable, but also calls for urgent attention by
diplomatic authorities in Nigeria and South Africa”, she said.
Dabiri-Erewa urged the South
African government to ensure that justice prevails by carrying out
investigation and bring the culprit to book.
She reiterated her calls to
Nigerians living abroad to always respect the laws of their host countries and
be good ambassadors of Nigeria.
“My heart goes out to the
families of the deceased and pray God to grant the departed soul eternal rest”,
the SSA prayed.
Dabiri-Erewa had in February
during a meeting in Abuja with South Africa High Commissioner, Mr Lulu Louis
Mnguni, said a total of 116 Nigerians have been killed in South Africa through
extrajudicial means in the last two years.
Seven in 10 of the killings were
carried out by the South African Police.
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I think Nigerian Government should recall our Ambassador to South Africa and closed down the South African consuler's office just like United States did to Russian's until we come to mutual terms otherwise this extrajudicial killings of Nigerians in South Africa would continue. Nigerian Government need to also use its international allies to uncover what is exactly going on behind the scene.
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