The House of Representatives has
announced that it will invite the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama
and the Chairman of the Nigerian Diaspora commission, Abike Dabiri over the
Xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
The Speaker of the House, Femi
Gbajabiamila disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja.
According to the Speaker, the
interface with the aforementioned government officials will allow the House to
demand for repatriation and compensation for those people who suffered losses.
He said, “This will allow the
government to more accurately demand reparations to compensate our citizens who
suffered in this recent orgy of violence. The House of Representatives is ready
to authorise legal funding for those citizens who wish to take legal action
against identified perpetrators of the violence as well as those who sponsored
them or permitted their actions to occur and to continue.
“We recognise that there are many
places in the world right now where internal crises and conflicts have made the
terrain unsafe for our citizens there.”
He added that the House will be
willing to provide supports to people who are willing to help in bringing home
Nigerians who are willing to come back home.
“The House of Representatives
will work with all the stakeholders within and outside government to evolve and
implement a plan to evacuate our people from these places and as much as
possible keep them out of harm’s way.
“We must accept that there are at
this moment in time several forces converging in different parts of the world,
creating seismic events over which we have limited control yet may not entirely
escape the worst consequences of.”
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