Xenophobic Attacks: Buhari Receives Envoy To South Africa, Orders Evacuation Of 640 Nigerians - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 10, 2019
PresidentMuhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, GeoffreyOnyeama, to monitor the measures the South African government would take to endthe xenophobic attacks on Nigerians, by further engaging the “appropriateauthorities.”
ThePresident also gave clear instructions that Nigerians willing to return homeshould be evacuated from South Africa immediately.
ThePresident took the decisions when he received the report of the special envoy he sent last week to his South Africancounterpart, President Cyril Ramaphosa, to register Nigeria’s concerns over theattacks.
ThePresidency, in a statement in Abuja, said the special envoy, who is theDirector-General, National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Rufa’i-Abubakar returnedto Nigeria after the assignment and had submitted his report to the President.