The association also said it is however still pushing ahead for the demand of compensation for victims of the attacks.
The evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa will commence on Wednesday, it has been learnt.
Air Peace has made an offer to airlift those who are willing to return
home following the recent attacks on Nigerians and their businesses by
South African.
Prince Ben Okoli, president, Nigeria Citizens Association, South Africa
(NICASA) said all efforts are geared towards evacuation of those who are
ready to come back home.
Though he was unable to put figure to the number of affected Nigerians,
Okoli however said the figure is in hundreds as many have lost their
means of livelihood and nothing to fall back to.
The association, he said is however still pushing ahead for the demand
of compensation as there are sufficient available to them that the
attacks were premeditated and orchestrate.
He also noted that normalcy is gradually returning, there is no longer
tension, or violence against any set of people. The violence and
hostility have ceased.
“So many Nigerian have been affected by this and lots have been highly
distressed and nothing to fall back to. So some of them affected have
decided to call it quit to go back to Nigeria.
“Presently, we are collating the data of Nigerians that are to be
evacuated back to Nigeria because the first batch will be leaving
sometime early next week.
“Well we have it on a good record that they will be leaving on Wednesday.”
On compensation, he said that the South African Government has remained
adamant, they have not acknowledge it as xenophobia. They continue to
call it criminality and we do not understand why they continue to push
the narrative of criminality since it is very obvious and plain and
simple for even illustrates to understand that this is purely
xenophobic. So in the area of compensation, like their President had
said that they are not going to give compensation but we are going to
push for that because we have a good ground for compensation because
these attacks against our people were uncalled for and totally
unprovoked. We look at it as an attack that as something that was
orchestrated, we are not actually pointing a figure at an individual or a
group but of complicity. Those are the areas that our legal advisers
are looking at.”
He maintained that the union was going to see the agitation for
compensation to its logical conclusion as the people have worked very
hard to establish themselves and suddenly, their hard work for sixteen
to eighteen years destroyed overnight and that is something that is not
acceptable to us as a community.”
On role of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s special envoy, Okoli said
they have been able to boost the moral of the Nigerian community in
going about their normal business without fear of molestation or
attacks.
We have actually regained some strength knowing that our government is
backing and supporting us, especially this time. So we are no longer
afraid because we believe that so long we are doing the right thing and
legal and food standing we have nothing to fear.
We want to thank President Buhari for the steps he has taken. The
special envoy did cone to us and push the case of Nigerians. We are very
grateful and that k him for what he has done so far.
He also commended the gesture of the Management of Air Peace for offering to airlift Nigerians back home.
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