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September 2, 2019
The Federal Government said on Monday it would take definite measures to prevent future attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, while reacting to the fresh xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in the former apartheid enclave, said the government was not happy with the incidents. Onyeama stated this on his Twitter account -@GeoffreyOnyeama.
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Similarly,the President of the Nigeria Union South Africa , Adetola Olubajo, had raisedalarm earlier on Monday, September 2, 2019, over attacks by South Africans onforeigners, including Nigerians, and their businesses which were being lootedand burnt.
Hesaid mobs launched attacks on foreigners in the Jeppestown area ofJohannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city, on Sunday, September 1, leavingthree dead.
Olubajosaid over 50 places of business were destroyed, looted and burnt over the nightby the mob who only targeted foreign nationals.
Acar sales business owned by a Nigerian were among the several businesses setablaze over the night.