The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Saturday shutdown South Africa\u2019s grocery chain, Shoprite at Ota in Ogun State.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the students picketed the shopping mall to protest what they described as unrestrained xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Scores of young Nigerians residing in South Africa have been brought home in body bags in recent years, having been killed in apparent xenophobic attacks in the former apartheid nation.<\/p>\n
The Shoprite mall was shutdown around 11:10 a.m. in the presence of police officers, with shoppers hurriedly ordered out of the mall.<\/p>\n
The students carried placards with inscriptions: \u201cSouth Africans must go. Enough of the killing of our brothers, sisters and relatives in South Africa. You can\u2019t continue to kill our people and still feed fat on us.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Speaking, the national public relations officer of NANS, Azeez Adeyemi, said that \u201cNANS\u2019 leadership under its president, Danielson Bamidele, have resolved to champion the struggle of putting sense back into lawless South Africans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems the government of South Africa derives pleasure from the senseless killings and sees the continuous xenophobic attacks on Nigerians residents in South Africa as a norm.<\/p>\n
\u201cNANS\u2019 struggle against xenophobia has moved beyond ordinary street protests.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur target now is to mobilise Nigerian students and Nigerians towards truncating the smooth running of South African businesses in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe shall resume here at Shoprite, Stanbic IBTC, MTN and Multichoice on August 14 for a total shut down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a struggle that will continue until victory of purpose is achieved,\u201d Mr Adeyemi said.<\/p>\n
DAILY POST on Thursday reported NANS as saying it would kill three South Africans living in Nigeria for every one Nigerian killed in South Africa, while it would also destroy three South African businesses in retaliation for any Nigerian business destroyed in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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