The National Association of Nigerian Students has asked South
African nationals living in Nigeria to leave the country on or before
Monday next week.
The students’ body said it would start attacking businesses with South
African interest in any part of Nigeria before next week Monday in
reaction to the killing of Nigerians and looting of their businesses in
South Africa.
National Public Relations Officer of NANS, Azeez Adeyemi, who led scores
of Nigerian students to converge at Lalubu Road, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta,
said the directive was precipitated by the killing of Nigerians and
looting of their properties in South Africa.
Adeyemi condemned the failure of the South African government to stop the ugly situation.
He warned that by Thursday all South African businesses in Ogun State
and other parts of Nigeria would be shut down in protest over the
ill-treatment of Nigerians by black South Africans.
He said, “The anger of Nigerians especially our constituency, seems
to have gotten to a point of real reaction against South Africans and
their businesses in Nigeria.
“As students, we had embarked on mild struggles in the past against this
inhuman act of the South Africans but the animals in human flesh have
proven to us that, they can only stop if we up our actions against
them”.
He added, “Going forward, as young people who originally own this
country, we would not wait for President Muhammadu Buhari who has
refused to take leadership and decisive position on the menace of the
South Africans.”
Adeyemi said that South Africans would not be attacked, but listed three directives.
He said, “Firstly, all South African businesses must close every
kind of business transactions opened at any point with our people in the
next 12 hours.
“Secondly, by Thursday morning, all South African businesses operating
in Nigeria must shut down totally as our comrades have been
strategically positioned across the 36 states of the federation.
“Thirdly, South Africans living in Nigeria must leave our country latest by Monday morning.”
Adeyemi said, the president, Danielson Akpan has summoned an
Extraordinary NANS Board of Trustee/ Stakeholders emergency meeting on
Friday to strategise on how to react properly to the xenophobic attacks.