President Goodluck Jonathan has suspended the permanent
secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danjuma Sheni,
over the recent recall of Nigeria’s envoys to South Africa
without due authorization.
Nigeria had on Saturday announced the recall of its acting
High Commissioner in Pretoria, Martin Cobham, and the
deputy High Commissioner in Johannesburg, Uche Ajulu-
Okeke, on Saturday, in protest of the ongoing xenophobic
attacks in the Southern African country.
A statement from the foreign affairs ministry, quoted the
minister, Aminu Wali, as saying that the diplomats were
“summoned for consultations” over the attacks.
South Africa condemned the decision, describing it as
“unfortunate and regrettable”, and portraying Nigeria as
opportunistic.
South Africa’s foreign affairs spokesperson, Clayson Monyela,
said in a statement that his country was shocked that the
Nigerian government would resort “to such an extraordinary
diplomatic step to express outrage at actions or behaviour of
another government”.
“We are not sure which actions or behaviour of the South
African Government the Nigerian Government is protesting,”
Mr. Monyela said.
“If this action is based on the incidents of attacks on foreign
nationals in some parts of our country, it would be curious
for a sisterly country to want to exploit such a painful
episode for whatever agenda”, he stated.

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jonathan-suspends-foreign-affairs-perm-sec-for-recalling-
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he just realized the rule of the game , eyah