Nigerian
Consul-General in South Africa, Amb. Uche Ajulu-Okeke, said on
Sunday that
Nigerians lost more than N21m Rand (1.2m) in the on-going xenophobic attacks in
South Africa.
Ajulu-Okeke told
the News Agency of Nigeria by phone from Johannesburg, South Africa,
that the loss included looted shops, burnt shops, two burnt mechanic workshops,
11 burnt cars and two stolen cars, among others.
“Nigerians have
compiled the cost of the damage to their property and it is totaling about
1.2m Rand or N21m, which will be sent to the Federal Government for further
action,” the ambassador said.
She said that two
of the three Nigerians who were wounded during the attacks in Durban had been
treated and discharged from the hospital.
The consul-general
said that she would go back to Durban to assess the situation on ground and
meet with the provincial authority on the security of Nigerians in that
province.
She said, “The
Nigerian mission in South Africa is on top of the situation. We are working
hard to protect Nigerians in South Africa.
“Though the task
has not been easy but we are trying our best. In one of the hot spots at Jeppe,
near Johannesburg, the mission assisted about 50 stranded Nigerians to
re-settle.
“I have also
visited the site of the attacks in Johannesburg to assess the damage and it was
enormous.”
She said the
Nigerian mission would meet with the Nigerian union chapters in the nine
provinces of South Africa to devise means of checking further attacks.
“I am bringing all
Nigerians together so that we work out a vigilance and alert mechanism; they
will also tell me what their challenges and issues are,’’ she said.
Okeke said the
mission and the Nigerian Union had been working together to meet the challenges
caused by the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians.
South-Africa attacks: Nigerians lose N21m, says envoy
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