By Ashley Young-
South African immigration service in Johannesburg have been rounding up escaping Nigerians trying to escape the country after waves of xenophobia attacks.
After a number of Nigerian own businesses in South Africa were looted and burnt down , South African authorities began arresting Nigerians at the airport they accuse of travelling without necessary papers. The claim several Nigerians trying to leave the country must have entered South Africa illegally when they arrived, so must be arrested. South Africa has already closed its diplomatic missions in Nigeria in the wake of tensions following the xenophobic violence in South Africa, according to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation said Thursday.
A Nigerian official of the high commission told reporters that Nigeria was being frustrated by the actions of South African authorities. The official said:
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FRUSTATING
“South Africa is frustrating Nigeria. The Air Peace aircraft has been there since 4:00 am. Their Immigration started giving our High Commission problems. They said some Nigerians didn’t have papers. Immigration is arresting them, asking them to explain how they came to South Africa. “They are frustrating the Nigerian High Commission, taking the passengers away. They want to frustrate the airline and the Nigerian government. The aircraft has been burning fuel since 4:00 am. They are not happy that Nigeria is evacuating its citizens. They don’t want the world to know that a Nigerian airline and Nigerian government is evacuating them”.
Sources from the Nigerian media told The Eye Of Media.Com that only 182 of the 317 Nigerians whose names were on the flight were allowed to board the flight, whilst the remaining 135 were stopped from boarding the free flight and were taken away by the South African immigration officials to explain how they got into South Africa in the first place. The nightmares of those Nigerians has just begun.
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