Nigerian Consul-General in South Africa,
Amb. Uche Ajulu-Okeke, said on Sunday that Nigerians lost more than N21m
Rand (1.2m) in the on-going xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
Ajulu-Okeke told the News Agency of Nigeria by
phone from Johannesburg, South Africa, that the loss included looted
shops, burnt shops, two burnt mechanic workshops, 11 burnt cars and two
stolen cars, among others.
“Nigerians have compiled the cost of the
damage to their property and it is totalling about 1.2m Rand or N21m,
which will be sent to the Federal Government for further action,” the
ambassador said.
She said that two of the three Nigerians
who were wounded during the attacks in Durban had been treated and
discharged from the hospital.
The consul-general said that she would go
back to Durban to assess the situation on ground and meet with the
provincial authority on the security of Nigerians in that province.
She said, “The Nigerian mission in South
Africa is on top of the situation. We are working hard to protect
Nigerians in South Africa.
“Though the task has not been easy but we
are trying our best. In one of the hot spots at Jeppe, near
Johannesburg, the mission assisted about 50 stranded Nigerians to
re-settle.
“I have also visited the site of the attacks in Johannesburg to assess the damage and it was enormous.”
She said the Nigerian mission would meet
with the Nigerian union chapters in the nine provinces of South Africa
to devise means of checking further attacks.
“I am bringing all Nigerians together so
that we work out a vigilance and alert mechanism; they will also tell me
what their challenges and issues are,’’ she said.
Okeke said the mission and the Nigerian
Union had been working together to meet the challenges caused by the
xenophobic attacks on Nigerians.
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