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Xenophobia Attacks: Federal Government Releases Nigerian Consulate's Hotlines in South Africa

Posted by Odinaka on Fri 24th Feb, 2017 - tori.ng

The government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has released a public notice to all Nigerians in South African, providing emergency numbers to report xenophobic attacks.

 
The Consulate General of Nigeria in Johannesburg has released two hotlines dedicated exclusively to reports on any xenophobic attacks on citizens.
 
A public notice to all Nigerians in South African, the Consulate gave the numbers as:
 
0027 (0) 731049643
 
0027(0) 632115615
 
The Consulate urged all Nigerians in Nigeria community groups to take note of the numbers.
 
As anti-immigration protests erupts in South Africa, police have been deployed in key cities prompting Nigerian Consulate to release hotlines for emergency.
 
According to the Twitter handle of Newsroom daily, many protesters have hit the streets. Reports say that some shops and houses have been touched.
 
Also, Africa Review reports that the police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to break up clashes between local South African protesters and migrants in Pretoria on Friday, adding that shops and homes owned by foreigners have been looted and torched in recent weeks.
 
The protesters who obtained police permit to carry out their rally staged a march as promised against immigrants.
 
Police formed lines to keep apart 500 protesters as tensions rose between some South Africans and migrants from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Pakistan and elsewhere.

“We are fed up with people bringing drugs to the youth and the crimes that go with it,” said a South African marcher who declined to be named.
 
As the stand-off continued, Clement Melfort, 26, a migrant from Zimbabwe who had come to see the march told AFP: “We are not afraid of fighting.”
 
President Jacob Zuma condemned the latest wave of xenophobic unrest, saying that there had been “threats of violence and acts of intimidation and destruction of property directed at non-nationals”.

“Residents in some communities blame non-nationals for the escalating crimes especially drug trafficking,” the presidency said in a statement on Friday.
 
President Zuma called for South Africans not to blame migrants for the country’s widespread crime problems, but said the government would crack down on drug-dealing and illegal immigrants.
  
-NAN 


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