{"id":17130,"date":"2019-10-23T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=17130"},"modified":"2019-10-23T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T17:08:45","slug":"nigeria-south-africa-to-implement-agreement-on-xenophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-south-africa-to-implement-agreement-on-xenophobia","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, South Africa to implement agreement on xenophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nidcom.gov.ng\/\">Nigerians in Diaspora Commission<\/a> (NIDCOM) chairman Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said Nigeria\u2019s foreign affairs minister Geoffrey Onyeama will be meeting with his South African counterpart to curb xenophobic attacks in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Dabiri-Erewa in a statement by NIDCOM spokesman Abdur-Rahman Balogun said Nigeria\u2019s Consul General, Godwin Adama, is currently in Widbank, Mpumulanga, to address the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>She said Adama was in a meeting with the South African police authorities to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerians living in South Africa were subjected to an anti-foreigner attack on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>South Africans living in Mpumalamga province attacked Nigerians in fresh violence which the leadership of Nigerian Citizens In South Africa (NICASA) confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>While the level of the casualty was yet to be ascertained, Dabiri-Erewa said the Nigeria mission intervened immediately and the situation is currently under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter this meeting, a meeting with Nigerians along with the South African Police will hold,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In early September fresh outbursts of violence against foreigners erupted in parts of South Africa. Over a dozen people were killed when mobs torched and looted shops and destroyed cars in places such as Johannesburg and Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>About 600 Nigerians returned from South Africa early in September after xenophobic violence in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>South African police thereafter said it arrested 700 people for what it called an act of criminality and not anti-foreigner attack.<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari in early October led a high delegation to South Africa on a two-day state visit and meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>He assured Nigerians that they have taken measures to prevent further attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a government, we are quite disturbed by these very unfortunate events and have taken actions and measures to address this issue and prevent their reoccurrence with the South African government,\u201d Buhari said in a statement tweeted by the Nigerian Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent acts of xenophobic attacks on our compatriots and other Africans in South Africa are shocking to me, Nigerians and indeed Africa. It was an embarrassment to the continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa apologised to Nigeria and Nigerians and reiterated South Africa\u2019s \u201cdeep regret\u201d over the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Nigerians in South Africa, Buhari called \u201con all Nigerians to be law-abiding and respect constituted authorities while you live here (South Africa).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urged Nigerians engaged in criminal activities in South Africa to \u201cdesist from such misdemeanours and be our good ambassadors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A series of agreements and Memorandum of Understanding were signed by the two African states to improve their working relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) chairman Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said Nigeria\u2019s foreign affairs minister Geoffrey Onyeama will be meeting with his South African counterpart to curb xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Dabiri-Erewa in a statement by NIDCOM spokesman Abdur-Rahman Balogun said Nigeria\u2019s Consul General, Godwin Adama, is currently in Widbank, Mpumulanga, to address the attacks. 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