Should we start counting how many South Africans have died in South Africa at the hands of Nigerians

This is the question posed by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba in response to a question about the figure of 116 Nigerians said to have been killed in South Africa in the past two years.

This week a senior Nigerian presidential aide on foreign affairs, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said 20 Nigerians were killed last year alone and called on the African Union to intervene in what Dabira-Erewa was quoted as saying were "killings in South Africa".

But Gigaba said this was the discussion South Africa would not want to get into as it would turn ugly.

"I am not privy to the figures from the Nigerian government and how they collected them. I do not think it is the discussion we want to get into. It will turn out very bad.

"Should we start counting how many South Africans have died in South Africa at the hands of Nigerian nationals?" the minister asked in Cape Town yesterday.

Gigaba said countries should desist from pointing fingers at each other.

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"It is something we need to discourage strongly because we heighten the situation rather than lessen it," he said.

Gigaba said he had requested a meeting with African Union ambassadors today to discuss recent incidents of attacks on foreigners in South Africa.

Gigaba said on a visit to Rosettenville, in Johannesburg, where residents went on rampage burning houses believed to be brothels and drug dens, that people were clear that they were not targeting foreigners or Nigerian immigrants.

He said the residents were targeting immigrants involved in crime.

sorextee:
Let the Nigerians there come back home o. Those south Africans there no get joy..
Na apartheid really fit those people.. They re not fighting the whites taking away the juicy part of the jobs there.. Na person wey open car wash business dem dey kill.
Useless people...

I even heard killing someone carries a lower sentence than rape..

project4OO:
The only solution is to arrest ALL attackers and leaders who make hate speeches.


As long as little or no measure is taken in this regard, opinions, agreements, speeches and conference notes will only dwell in the Library. They're meant to populate the library and archives.

Sanchez01:

Most South Africans are lazy folks. They derive joy in lazying around, which makes them easy targets to drugs. Not like I support drugs in the least of ways but recalling all Nigerians in South Africa just because of a lazy people and their country might see some ignorant Nigerians vandalize South African companies' properties without considering the ripple effect.

As it stands, MTN and Shoprite would definitely be the first targets should this escalate beyond this.

Mynd44
Lalasticlala

sorextee:
I agree too. Not in support of drugs too. But why re most Nigerians doing drug business abroad sef.. Even the Kenyans said dey will soon begin their own attack on Nigerians.. That we polute their country with drugs... Na so our people full Malaysian prisons, Indonesia, China, Japan, etc, over drug related offences...

sorextee:
Let the Nigerians there come back home o. Those south Africans there no get joy..
Na apartheid really fit those people.. They re not fighting the whites taking away the juicy part of the jobs there.. Na person wey open car wash business dem dey kill.
Useless people...

I even heard killing someone carries a lower sentence than rape..