Systemic Killing Of Migrant Nigerians In South Africa

 

By Odimegwu Onwumere

 

“Nigerians in South Africa want reciprocity; we are tired of intimidation and victimisation,” was part of a communiqué the President of Nigeria Union, South Africa, Mr. Ikechukwu Anyene sent out across the world following some recent killings of Nigerians in South Africa.

 

Over the years, migrant Nigerians have been killed in torrents in what Anyene regarded as systemic killing.

 

His complaints have been that many migrant Nigerian workers in South Africa were being killed by unidentified persons and scoundrel officers of the South African Police Service.

 

Against this backdrop, Nigerians have been bewildered with an embarrassment of problems in the hands of South Africans.

 

Many people have seen this overabundance of predicaments that Nigerians have been suffering per minute as preventable, biased and confrontational in all ramifications.

 

Killed By Workers Of A Private Security Company

Ikejiaku Chinedu, 35, father of three, who left the shores of Nigeria some years ago in search of greener pastures in South Africa, has been killed.

 

His death has drawn ire of concerns apart from Nigerians in the Diaspora, but, also, the international community has been thrown into hysteria over the issue.

 

“Many Nigerians in search of greener pasture in foreign countries have met their untimely death as a result of extra-judicial killings, among other reasons.

 

“The situation is particularly precarious in South Africa where police and other assailants have turned Nigerians into games to be hunted down at the slightest provocation,” Nigerian Journalist Dayo Oketola said, while on a 405-kilometre journey from Pretoria to Ladysmith in November 2015, for sightseeing.

 

Little did Chinedu’s beloved ones and he know that he would not return to Nigeria alive; he was killed on July 26 2016, at Mokopane town, Limpopo Province of South Africa, by workers of a private security company, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), have gathered.

 

Attacked And Burnt Alive

The killing of Chinedu has rattled migrant Nigerian workers in South Africa who have become preys in the hands of South African locals in the recent times.

 

They have been attacked and many burnt alive, especially in a xenophobic attack on foreign migrant workers early last year. They have also been looted in their shops and these acts still persist. 

 

The Nigerian groups in South Africa have been calling on the international community to see the dastardly killings and destructions of their property that South Africans have been meting out to them in their places of work, street and abode.

 

Anyene has been calling on the Nigerian mission in South Africa, calling on the Federal Government of Nigeria to insist on having the findings of inspections of the numerous murder cases of Nigerians by South Africans.

 

According to the source, “Most of these cases have not been solved and in majority of the cases, nobody has been arrested. Note that majority of them have been reported to the police and they have official case numbers.

 

“This is strange in a country where the police force is efficient and the rate of successful prosecution is high. The overall successful prosecution rate of 92.2 per cent was recorded in 2014/15. Does this mean that Nigerians’ lives do not matter?”

 

Voices Against The Killings

Chinedu’s death was one out of the many migrant Nigerians in search of a livelihood outside their home country killed in South Africa.

 

Many Nigerians fled South Africa in the event of dislike or prejudice against people from other countries by South Africans in 2015.

 

Mr. Raila Odinga, who's Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya, cried out that ethnicity in the country was not welcomed.

 

A Political Writer-based in Zimbabawe, Reason Wafawarova said in a public presentation that the world saw what happened with xenophobic; or is it afrophobic attacks in South Africa.

 

“Tribalism has nurtured the typical African into a hating animal when it comes to outsiders, and most of us inherently consider outsiders lesser beings, even those that are clearly more successful than ourselves,” Wafawarova said.

 

Apart From Chinedu

In different scenarios, Gideon Ogalaonye, an indigene of Onitsha, Anambra, was purportedly shot dead in South Africa at 7 p.m., on July 29, 2016.

 

Nnamdi Michael, an indigene of Enugu State, was supposedly stabbed to death by a Zimbabwean national at Yeoville at 8 p.m.

 

“The Zimbabwean has been handed over to the police and we will follow the case. The two incidents have been reported to the Nigerian mission in South Africa and the South African police.

 

“The Nigerian community in South Africa is not happy with the killings. We urge the Federal government to persuade its South African counterpart to investigate and prosecute incidents of killings of Nigerians in that country. We are getting worried about these incessant killings and we want the culprits prosecuted,” Anyene said.

 

Rising Hope

This is a diminutive account of what Nigerian migrants in search of a work in South Africa suffer, therefore relegating the Labour Migration policies of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), to the background.

 

But Mr. Collins Mgbo, the Secretary of Nigeria Union, Limpopo Province chapter, however told the NAN in Polokwane, Limpopo Province on Friday, July 29 2016, that there was an assurance of a detailed investigation into the killing of Chinedu by South African Police, after they met with Nigerian community.

 

“We reported the brutal killing of the Nigerian to the police. They have taken up the matter and assured of comprehensive investigation on the incident.

 

“The police also told us to be calm and law abiding. The union has informed the Nigerian community in the province on the development,” Mgbo said.

 

South African Authorities

Upon all these, the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Lulu Mnguni, on Wednesday, June 15 2016, in Lagos, said that South Africa receives an arithmetic mean of about 10 million foreign tourists every year, which include an approximate of 50,000 Nigerians.

 

“About 50,000 Nigerians visit South Africa every year for tourism.  South Africa has really been able to harness her tourism potential to continue to attract internal and external tourists.

 

“South Africa receives an average of about 10 million foreign tourists yearly, including about 50,000 Nigerian visitors,’’ Mnguni added.

 

Odimegwu Onwumere is a Rivers State based Poet, Writer and Consultant. Email: odimegwu@journalist.com

Source:
http://www.futiweb.com/620/systemic-killing-of-migrant-nigerians-in-south-africa#817

Enough is enough. I don't blame them at all.

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Systemic Killing Of Migrant Nigerians In South Africa

 

By Odimegwu Onwumere

 

“Nigerians in South Africa want reciprocity; we are tired of intimidation and victimisation,” was part of a communiqué the President of Nigeria Union, South Africa, Mr. Ikechukwu Anyene sent out across the world following some recent killings of Nigerians in South Africa.

 

Over the years, migrant Nigerians have been killed in torrents in what Anyene regarded as systemic killing.

 

His complaints have been that many migrant Nigerian workers in South Africa were being killed by unidentified persons and scoundrel officers of the South African Police Service.

 

Against this backdrop, Nigerians have been bewildered with an embarrassment of problems in the hands of South Africans.

 

Many people have seen this overabundance of predicaments that Nigerians have been suffering per minute as preventable, biased and confrontational in all ramifications.

 

Killed By Workers Of A Private Security Company

Ikejiaku Chinedu, 35, father of three, who left the shores of Nigeria some years ago in search of greener pastures in South Africa, has been killed.

 

His death has drawn ire of concerns apart from Nigerians in the Diaspora, but, also, the international community has been thrown into hysteria over the issue.

 

“Many Nigerians in search of greener pasture in foreign countries have met their untimely death as a result of extra-judicial killings, among other reasons.

 

“The situation is particularly precarious in South Africa where police and other assailants have turned Nigerians into games to be hunted down at the slightest provocation,” Nigerian Journalist Dayo Oketola said, while on a 405-kilometre journey from Pretoria to Ladysmith in November 2015, for sightseeing.

 

Little did Chinedu’s beloved ones and he know that he would not return to Nigeria alive; he was killed on July 26 2016, at Mokopane town, Limpopo Province of South Africa, by workers of a private security company, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), have gathered.

 

Attacked And Burnt Alive

The killing of Chinedu has rattled migrant Nigerian workers in South Africa who have become preys in the hands of South African locals in the recent times.

 

They have been attacked and many burnt alive, especially in a xenophobic attack on foreign migrant workers early last year. They have also been looted in their shops and these acts still persist. 

 

The Nigerian groups in South Africa have been calling on the international community to see the dastardly killings and destructions of their property that South Africans have been meting out to them in their places of work, street and abode.

 

Anyene has been calling on the Nigerian mission in South Africa, calling on the Federal Government of Nigeria to insist on having the findings of inspections of the numerous murder cases of Nigerians by South Africans.

 

According to the source, “Most of these cases have not been solved and in majority of the cases, nobody has been arrested. Note that majority of them have been reported to the police and they have official case numbers.

 

“This is strange in a country where the police force is efficient and the rate of successful prosecution is high. The overall successful prosecution rate of 92.2 per cent was recorded in 2014/15. Does this mean that Nigerians’ lives do not matter?”

 

Voices Against The Killings

Chinedu’s death was one out of the many migrant Nigerians in search of a livelihood outside their home country killed in South Africa.

 

Many Nigerians fled South Africa in the event of dislike or prejudice against people from other countries by South Africans in 2015.

 

Mr. Raila Odinga, who's Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya, cried out that ethnicity in the country was not welcomed.

 

A Political Writer-based in Zimbabawe, Reason Wafawarova said in a public presentation that the world saw what happened with xenophobic; or is it afrophobic attacks in South Africa.

 

“Tribalism has nurtured the typical African into a hating animal when it comes to outsiders, and most of us inherently consider outsiders lesser beings, even those that are clearly more successful than ourselves,” Wafawarova said.

 

Apart From Chinedu

In different scenarios, Gideon Ogalaonye, an indigene of Onitsha, Anambra, was purportedly shot dead in South Africa at 7 p.m., on July 29, 2016.

 

Nnamdi Michael, an indigene of Enugu State, was supposedly stabbed to death by a Zimbabwean national at Yeoville at 8 p.m.

 

“The Zimbabwean has been handed over to the police and we will follow the case. The two incidents have been reported to the Nigerian mission in South Africa and the South African police.

 

“The Nigerian community in South Africa is not happy with the killings. We urge the Federal government to persuade its South African counterpart to investigate and prosecute incidents of killings of Nigerians in that country. We are getting worried about these incessant killings and we want the culprits prosecuted,” Anyene said.

 

Rising Hope

This is a diminutive account of what Nigerian migrants in search of a work in South Africa suffer, therefore relegating the Labour Migration policies of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), to the background.

 

But Mr. Collins Mgbo, the Secretary of Nigeria Union, Limpopo Province chapter, however told the NAN in Polokwane, Limpopo Province on Friday, July 29 2016, that there was an assurance of a detailed investigation into the killing of Chinedu by South African Police, after they met with Nigerian community.

 

“We reported the brutal killing of the Nigerian to the police. They have taken up the matter and assured of comprehensive investigation on the incident.

 

“The police also told us to be calm and law abiding. The union has informed the Nigerian community in the province on the development,” Mgbo said.

 

South African Authorities

Upon all these, the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Lulu Mnguni, on Wednesday, June 15 2016, in Lagos, said that South Africa receives an arithmetic mean of about 10 million foreign tourists every year, which include an approximate of 50,000 Nigerians.

 

“About 50,000 Nigerians visit South Africa every year for tourism.  South Africa has really been able to harness her tourism potential to continue to attract internal and external tourists.

 

“South Africa receives an average of about 10 million foreign tourists yearly, including about 50,000 Nigerian visitors,’’ Mnguni added.

 

Odimegwu Onwumere is a Rivers State based Poet, Writer and Consultant. Email: odimegwu@journalist.com

Source:
http://www.futiweb.com/620/systemic-killing-of-migrant-nigerians-in-south-africa#817

 

i thought nigeria was the biggest economy in Africa, what are the nigerians doing in a poor country like South africa?

South africans developed their own country, nigeria should do the same and stop causing problems in foreign countries.

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i thought nigeria was the biggest economy in Africa, what are the nigerians doing in a poor country like South africa?

South africans developed their own country, nigeria should do the same and stop causing problems in foreign countries.

Only if Nigerians can stop selling drugs. I know of many Nigerians here who sit by the corners selling drugs on small.children. What about that? Now their lives are more important than those of their victims who they feed drugs to death. I have seen many children losing their lives because of the drugs they buy from Nigerians. What about that? Of course they wouldnt mention any of those because theirs is greediness. They are playing with fire yet they do not want to be burned