Xenophobia : No Compensation For Affected Victims! - South Africa Defies Nigerians

Following the recent xenophobia attacks resulting to vandalism of properties and loss of lives, Nigeria’s demand for compensation for its

citizens who incurred losses in xenophobic

attacks has been ruled down by South Africa

 Nigeria is pressing for victims of the wanton

attacks and killings to be fully compensated,

but S/Africa says payment of compensation is

not in its laws

Foreign affairs minister, Geoffrey Onyeama,

says Nigeria will take necessary measures and

do whatever needs to be done to ensure that

victims are compensated

 The minister insisted that the federal

government will hold the government of South

Africa to account

Nigeria’s request for compensation for its

citizens who incurred losses in xenophobic

attacks has been ruled down by South Africa.

The South African foreign affairs minister,

Naledi Pandor, stated on Thursday, September

5, that payment of compensation was not in

the country’s law, The Nation reports.

Legit.ng notes that Nigeria is pressing for

victims of the wanton attacks and killings to be

fully compensated.

The federal government has already dispatched

an envoy to Pretoria, as it seeks diplomatic

means to solve the matter.

The president of the Nigerian Union in South

Africa, Adeola Olubajo, disclosed that about

200 Nigerians have been killed in persistent

attacks over the years, and many more have

lost goods and properties worth millions of

dollars.

The need for compensation for victims was

reiterated by Nigeria's minister of foreign

affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, in a chat with

newsmen at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on

Thursday.

He said: “Our citizens there have suffered a lot.

It is the responsibility of the government to

ensure that they are compensated and we will

take measures necessary and do whatever we

have to do to ensure that they are

compensated.”

Before that, Onyeama had stated on Tuesday,

September 3: “Full compensation has to be

paid because as we have discovered from

previous experience, a lot of these Nigerians

lost their property and it is a long drawn out

process and very often are not compensated

for it.