Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 03:30 pm
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on Nigerians living in South Africa to reconsider their stay in the country and return home.
It said that the killing of Nigerians in South Africa had taken an alarming dimension requiring every form of caution.
NANS President Danielson Akpan gave the advice in Abuja on Wednesday at a news conference the association jointly addressed with the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), NAN reports.
“We do not believe in Xenophobia. If we want to talk about it, Nigerians should be the ones pushing it because there are no multinational companies in South Africa controlled by a Nigerian.
“In Nigeria, we have Multichoice, MTN, these are organisations that should be controlled by Nigerians, but the daily profit accruing is repatriated to South Africa.
“Yet we are not killing anybody here because we feel that there should be room for competition,” he said.
He said Nigerian students had in the past two weeks been picketing in a peaceful way in major cities in the country to send a message to the international community about the killing of Nigerians in South Africa.
He further said that the picketing was carried out with the hope that the South African government and its citizens would end all forms of attack on Nigerians.
Akpan urged South Africans to deal with their own issues and not spill the blood of other nationals in the process.
