₦airaland Forum

Trump smiling with him......comes to mind.

Where were they before now, or where are they coming from? Largest ethnic group without base? I'm confused.

anago40:
I know the SA thing is paining you as you say, also me too. But please hear my perspective:

I have lived in SA for almost 20 years.

What you see as pure xenophobia is actually community Vigilantism gone wrong or hijacked by criminals.

Some of the shops looted and destroyed are actually covers for a serious crime.

Some of our brothers take over entire areas and turn them into drug markets. But because the law in SA does not allow police to arrest criminals unless with evidence or unless shot at, so what happens is the drug guys hide these drugs in shops, restaurants etc and use as a face.
There are up to 30 public "drug" markets in Joburg alone. These are areas where 50 to 200 Nigerians converge on street corners to sell drugs. That's just in Johannesburg, and excludes other places.
The community knows and they try to inform the police. Sometimes these guys get arrested and bribe their way out when it fails the community takes laws into their hands.

Nigerians are not being targetted per se. The target is street drug dealers and yahoo boys who are mostly Nigerian.

Personally, in an area of Johannesburg, some years ago, drug dealers almost took over my property. We bought it and in the process of renovation, they invaded it and turned it into a drug hotel. It took God to evict them without being killed. It was led by Nigerians. In that property, there were families with women and children.

One strategy of selling drugs is to befriend young secondary school.Girls and introduce them. They get hooked and they start stealing and prostitution to feed the habit. Soon the entire area deteriorates.
Now, why I am sharing this with you is that the drug dealers are distracting attention. They are trying to make the Nigerian Government arise in anger and defend "Nigerians" ie defend drug dealers. if they succeed, they'd have staged a powerful coup. They'd have entered an official mafioso level, protected by Government.

Please see the article below: The Nigeria ambassador to SA said the majority of killings are perpetrated by fellow Nigerians. It's a drug turf war. he is right. I know some who've been killed.

So how can we accuse others of killing us when we are perpetrating it?

Those videos and pictures circulating of Nigerians in SA- how is it that we are shown only in the light of guys on the street? I know top Robotics engineers in SA, I know people in Top IT firms, developers, in Amazon, Google etc, I know top bankers, property company owners, many doctors, Superintendent of hospitals, professors, Pastors, etc.

So in summary here are my thoughts

- A vast majority of upright Nigerians in SA are very comfortable. They are doctors, teachers, business owners, etc. If we don't get the right story, we can set off a diplomatic war, everything collapses and these guys become targets. Currently, they are not being targetted by anyone. many are married to South Africans. Some head Government agencies and private companies.

- Yes, there are some xenophobic South Africans, but just like we fought against stigmatizing Fulani, we must also fight against stigmatizing South Africans. There are VERY many good South Africans, who don't buy into any form of oppression. Let us encourage our government to join with the South African Government and carry out a security raid on drug dealers.

If the Government announces this, you will see they will flee because they'll know the cover is blown! xenophobic attacks will reduce 95%.

The biggest donation event in the history of SA was in 2007 when people gave to victims of xenophobic attacks. The amount given was a record. It shows that the nation is not buying into that mindset.

- Please use your powerful platform to create a voice for good Nigerians in SA. You will be surprised. Many are afraid to talk because even Nigerian organizations in SA are infiltrated and even controlled by drug dealers and kingpins. No one wants to be killed. These guys are very powerful.



- Communities fighting to save themselves should not be hushed but helped to do it in a better way. Not jungle justice.
- Yes the SA Government must not also be left without responsibility in the matter, they should be tasked to step up their game too. While Nigeria targets drug dealers and yahoo buys, South Africa should target miscreants and criminals in a joint operation. SA Government also needs to purge bad eggs in its police force who are compromised. It Also needs to take its own share of blame for unemployment, poverty and economic challenges and social issues that allow drugs to be demanded.

I close with a prophecy by Pa Elton

"Africa is like a gun, Nigeria is like a trigger, South Africa is like a barrel

South Africa will be free. It will partner with Nigeria.

When that happens, Africa will arise and lead the world in many ways."

This prophecy was given in the hight of apartheid when it seemed impossible. Today it is half done South Africa has more bilateral agreements with Nigeria than any other nation on earth. We MUST NOT allow miscreants and criminals on both sides to hinder it, because if our national relationship fails, Africa will fail.

This is Buhari's "Mandela" moment. Will he rise up and shake off the pain and anger and mobilize Africa to unify or will he take a position that reverses the building of unity? I think he will do the right thing by God's grace, but I also believe publicizing the truth will help him and citizens.

I am open to discuss with you further on this matter, and if you feel the need to publish the above anonymously, please feel free. And if you want to do a tour to SA, I'll host you and we can go out and do a strategic mapping. I'll show you things that will make you see another perspective.
https://allafrica.com/stories/201808140022.html

What you wrote there is not quite different from what happens in European countries where I've been. The drug dealers in/around some african shops. The only difference is the police. They do their work in Europe - arrest, jail or deport & close down the shop. They don't take bribes to the detriment of their people. Xenophobia is not the way out.

'Once bloody, always bloody' .... Shakespeare.
They kill foreigners, their government looked away, gradually they grew blood thirsty and kill their own.

It was just last two or three months that they started the foundation( it's not a completed building).

delugajackson:
Perhaps you need to stop watching porn.

Very poor.

I long noticed that names are written once the criminal is Igbo. If not, they write a nigerian. I'm suprised at the names above - if real then Igbos might not be the highest criminals abroad. Covering your tribe and exposing others is a sin.

Awara! You see your life? ��

Big congratulation.

This lie get k-leg. Nigerian Army or western army?. I don witness where army and police dey engage in superiority battle for Aba last yr . Army go show say dem be the boss.

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imbued in him a cheating spirit.

Too much kiliing with no arrest. Too much impunity.

Igbos in diaspora do not buy lands and scatter houses in every country on earth - they send money home.
As other tribes see you as foreigners, why not emulet those in diaspora - work in their land and send money home.

Viergeachar:
They don't have to leave!

We are not saying they should leave!!

They should just stay out of our politics!!!

That's all

What do you have to say about yorubas in london - even in elective political positions.

Mayor08:
Lastly I was somehow abused by an Igbo woman in Lagos and I had to call my dad about it, he was so vexed and had to make some calls...I was denied registering my national identity card cause my state of origin is Lagos, she told me to my face Lagos is no mans land and had to take me to the immigration department to confirm if I am a Nigerian.

I felt abused and had to notify my dad about it, he was vexed and called for the woman's sack which I don't know the outcome of the call though..all I'm trying to say is you don't get too relaxed and abuse privileges been given..I'm a bonafide indigene of Lagos and you don't know the king of anger and annoyance that comes to me when you guys call my ancestral land a mans land...there is already a ploy to stop all this and its already in the subconscious...I have no problem with people of other tribes..you have to call your people to order so it won't affect innocent people like you and i

what if yorubas are asked to leave london? Have you been to london? Did you see how many yourbas in a street in a day? In as much as I don't support talking down on other tribe, Nigeria is for all of us - Lagos, Enugu, Kano.

Tell US, tell EU, tell Britain and after you carry plate like Street beggar to beg help from them. No country exists in isolation.

Igbos are known to grab opportunity when it calls. What sort of boycott? Pls get your pvc and vote for your future.

After insulting Obj at Lagos rally on Saturday, they striped themselves in obj's home on Monday. E kpele o.

Na them them , no surprise.

Liveair:
Yes, I agree with you, Justice Odili has proved to be very handy in influencing cases at the apex court in favour of highest bidders.

picking the next victim? Easy oh! It might be you after her.

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zlantanfan:
Ngozi oya go check whether your pant still dey bathroom o

hmm mmmmmm.

Hmm mmmmmm.

A very shameful act - Selling, wining and dinning with a supposed thief in the house of God.

Igbobyblood:
Stupid tribalistic man, stupid pope.

Na die u dey die so.

Oshigun:
This is getting ridiculous. FBI are now so jobless they take petition from 'unnamed millionaires' to investigate the cloning of the Nigerian President? How the Igbos will recover from indulging Kanu I don't know. The whole ethnic group now appear a people of questionable sanity consumed with and guided solely by the hatred in their heart for others.

Oyibo! Speaking trash about others..

Any citizen that is not scared of this 'next level' is not patrotic or simply unaware of what is happeñing in Nigeria.
Nextlevel of what?
Of poverty? of killings? of zero infrastructure? Of intimidation? Of looting?
Next level of what because to move from level 1 to two means a step higher and the level Nigeria is in now is a disatster.

Do you believe yourself mr VP?

Seeing how the south East is working for Atiku, federal gov (if they were the one holding him) freed him to destroy PDP chances. Nnamdi should not allow them to use him for politics - he should be neutral.

He just saved the son from ruin - if he will understand. Those abusing the father- na awa for una.

Kemi gone, kachukwu goes and the door of corruption will be wide open.