Xenophobic Attack: Lai Mohammed Berates Destruction Of South African Businesses In Nigeria

The reprisal attack on the xenophobic attack that occurred in some cities and states in Nigeria has attracted the attention of the federal government.

Condemning the reprisal attack, Nigeria’s minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that the majority of those working in businesses owned by South Africans are Nigerians.

“Targetting South African companies in Nigeria for the attack is, for Nigerians, a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face, because the investors in such companies, especially MTN and Shoprite, are Nigerians,” the minister said.

“Majority of the workers in the South African companies operating in Nigeria are also Nigerians, meaning that its Nigerian workers who will be hardest hit if such companies are forced to shut down for fear of attacks.”

He said the federal government is already taking decisive measures to put an end to the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.

Meanwhile, in another related story, Nigeria’s former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has attacked South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa for supporting the mass killings of Nigerians in his country, describing him as a devious ingrate.

Here is Fani-Kayode’s tweets below where he slammed South Africa’s President:

The Boers never butchered Nigerians in apartheid #SouthAfrica.Black South Africans have forgotten the role Nigeria played in their liberation.Had it not been for us they would still be nothing but hewers of wood and drawers of water.#XenophobicAttacks #Xenophobia @GovernmentZA

— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) September 3, 2019