Naledi Pandor, South African
minister of foreign affairs, says there is no provision for compensating those
affected in the fresh attacks in the country.
In an interview with Reuters,
Pandor said her country’s laws do not have provision for such.
Last week, angry mob went on
rampage in South Africa, targetting foreign nationals, including Nigerians.
Adetola Olubajo, president of the
Nigerian Union in South Africa, said Nigerians lost property worth millions of
dollars in the attacks.
In its response, the federal
government summoned Bobby Moroe, South African high commissioner to Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari also
sent a special envoy to Cyril Ramaphosa, his South African counterpart, to
convey his displeasure over the attacks.
The federal government also
pulled out of the ongoing World Economic Forum in South Africa and recalled its
high commissioner to the country.
It also demanded that its
citizens involved in the attacks should be fully compensated.
“Full compensation has to be paid
because as we have discovered from previous experience, a lot of these
Nigerians loss their property and it is a long drawn out process and very often
are not compensated for it. But on this occasion, the Nigerian government is
going to fight for full compensation and hold the government of South Africa to
count,” Geofrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, said at a press
conference in Abuja on Wednesday.
The South African high commission
in Nigeria suspended operations on Thursday morning following attacks on MTN,
Shoprite and some South Africa-owned businesses across Nigeria.
Commenting on this, Pandor said
she was in touch with Nigerian authorities to try to restore calm.
She also efforts were in place to
address the unrest in South Africa.
“There is an Afrophobia we are
sensing that exists, there is resentment and we need to address that,” Reuters
quoted Pandor to have said.
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