Chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Christopher Kalila says the organisation is engaging Nigeria over its stand-off with South Africa that has resulted in it boycotting this week’s conference of lawmakers in Cape Town.
Nigeria’s House of Representatives announced on Friday that it would suspend official visits and participation in legislative activities in South Africa over perceived xenophobic attacks against its citizens living here.
While SA Parliament said it had no record of Nigeria officially declining to attend the event, Kalila said the matter was raised with the CPA three weeks ago.
With more than 800 delegates attending the 69th annual conference of the CPA, this is set to be the association’s biggest ever gathering.
It’s the third time South Africa’s Parliament is hosting the event, but Nigeria will be absent.
Kalila said the matter was raised at a recent meeting of the CPA’s Africa region held in Malawi.
He told the media on Monday that an all-African nation committee has been established to deal with the matter.
“At this point, we would like to allow them to do their work, and we will be reporting their recommendations in due course when they are done. I think I would prefer that we leave it at this stage.”
Meanwhile, SA Parliament Speaker Thoko Didiza said migration issues affect many Commonwealth countries, not only South Africa.
She, however, said she’s confident that this gathering can reach common ground on solutions to the impact it’s having in many of the CPA’s member states.
you don't boycott a country you can punish considerably.
I remember when the Nigerian government of Goodluck Jonathan taxed MTN and all their government officials were here in a matter of hours
I say tax DStv, MTN and several other South African entities in Nigeria then send their ambassador moving
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weak statement and defeatism from a once powerhouse in Africa now a crybaby.
Nigeria is an international embarrassment under the recent rulership.
You remember during the times of Obasanjo when the dumb South Africa sent warship to ivory coast and Obasanjo ordered the South African government to remove the warship?
Tinubu is low on geopolitics and unfit for a large country like Nigeria
one of the hazards of the jobs of a president is that your lose all sense of privacy, from your health to your properties and your history and personal records.
Besides, court documents and filing are public record. What is Tinubu afraid of?
Gerrard59: If you had to specify the smoking and now tattoo issue to Nigeria or African countries, I would understand, but making it universal is where I beg to disagree. For instance, tattoos make one a social outcast where I live, but smoking does not. This is for both genders.
P.S. I don't live in the West. No be only Western societies dey the zenith of development.
A nairaland thread asking us about our perception of women or girls smoking is now a universal topic? Small-minded mentality.
Nairaland is nairaland and Nigeria.
Where you live doesn't change much about the global outlook on women who smoke.
Gerrard59: I had to comment because of the bold. Since biology is universal, while culture isn't, one might think women don't smoke. However, where I live, women smoke almost as much as their men. They smoke every day and at designated corners. Both married, unmarried, middle-aged, old, young, with children, without children, etc. Their children even stand a few metres away while they smoke. Exhaust pipe has nothing on these people.
If not for what I have experienced, I would have believed the bold, but so far, it is not entirely true. Rich, middle class and poor women smoke. Smoking is gender neutral.
The problem Africa is going to encounter isn't just poverty, illiteracy and underdevelopment, it is the aping of Western culture without any filters.
In your whatever country you reside, they have house husbands as well and that is an evolving culture over there
Social acceptance of women who spoke aren't the same as men who smoke. Same as social acceptance of men who tatoo aren't exactly same as women who tattoo.
All these una excuse because una dey one oyibo country dey hustle is laughable.
In that very country you are residing, there's a level of social acceptability of women who smoke and it's inferior to women who don't smoke.