The British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) has
related the current hate attacks
on Africans living in South Africa
by the locals to Muhammadu
Buhari and Shagari, who gave
the same treatment to Africans,
mostly West Africans in 1984.
They claimed that the 'Ghana-
must-go' policy against Africans
was Muhammadu Buhari's
Legacy to Africa in 1984.

SOURCE:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013t60w

.

It was Shehu Shagari and it was an official order given to them to leave.

The former President Shehu Shagari flushed out thousands of illegal immigrants from the ECOWAS sub-region who had turned Nigeria into one big training camp for criminals. Ghanaians were more in number.

Nigerians did not slaughter Ghanaians on the streets the way the south Africans are doing to foreigners now. They allowed them to leave quietly.

Stupidity is when you compare sheu shagari bloodless policy meant for economic good of the nation to murder of foregin nationals because of they are blacks and stealing your jobs

Willy...okay ...NEXT

hmmmmmmmmm

Thirty years ago, Nigeria ordered up to 2 million illegal immigrants to leave the country within a few weeks

- Nigeria in 1983 refers to illegal immigrant, same as what is been practice in the UK and other western countries where illegal immigrant and other overstayers are being deported every day.

- What is BBC plan with this useless insinuation.


BBC, are you attempting to relate the incidence of 1983 in Nigeria with the current Xenophobia In South Africa

During the Ghana must go issue, were people killed? Were properties stolen? Now the BBC can go and die!

mumu's it was shagari dat brought ghana must go.

Before u condemn the post pls visit: https://m.facebook.com/hopefornigeria/posts/913717005353089

When people tell us that the white man is conspiring to destroy us most Africans will say "conspiracy theory!"

I knew that the hate attacks made no sense and were either staged or sponsored by neocolonialists.

BBC. ..mtcheeeww

How is a government that officially asked foreigners to leave the country for economic benefit of her citizens the same as a people who kill foreigners for their own failure?

Had SA asked foreigners to leave the country for some economic benefits of her people, it would not be an issue.

buhari is a bad omen

PassingShot:
How is a government that officially asked foreigners to leave the country the same as a people who kill foreigners for their own failure.

I'm still wondering.

If I say Baba

You say 'one chance'

Only haters will read the story without making personal research yet you all claim to be literate.... mtcheeew bunch of illiterates

EXPELLED FOREIGNERS POURING OUT OF NIGERIA By The Associated Press
Published: May 5, 1985

LAGOS, Nigeria, May 4— Thousands of illegal aliens, carrying mattresses, clothing and cooking utensils, poured back across the borders to their homelands today, ordered out by Nigeria's military rulers.

The foreigners had been attracted to Nigeria in part by an oil boom in the 1970's, but now the West African nation has deep economic problems and an increasing crime rate, which it attributes in large measure to the immigrants.

On Friday, the Government opened its borders to speed the expulsion of 700,000 foreigners. It was the first time Nigeria's borders with Benin, Niger, Chad and Cameroon were open since April 1984, when the Government closed them to combat the black market in the country's ailing currency, the naira.

The aliens, who were ordered out last month, were part of the second wave of foreigners to be forced from Nigeria by the Government in three years.

Reporters at the western border with Benin today said Nigerian customs officials were searching the departing foreigners closely and refusing to let tiem carry out more than the 20 naira, or $17.65, allowed by law. They also said bus drivers were doing a brisk business charging twice the normal fare to carry passengers across the border.

The illegal immigrants were among the millions of West Africans, mostly from Ghana, who flooded into Nigeria in hopes of benefiting from the country's oil-based economy.

But world demand for oil has waned and the price has dropped, sending Nigeria into a steep economic decline and swelling its foreign debt.

In January 1983, the civilian Government of President Shehu Shagari ordered out about two million foreigners, blaming them for widespread unemployment and crime. Roads to the border were clogged with people carrying personal belongings.

Maj. Gen. Mohammed Buhari overthrew Mr. Shagari in December 1983, and last month the Buhari Government announced it was giving the remaining illegal aliens until May 10 to leave.

But until the Government opened the borders on Friday, only small groups were reported to have left on planes and ships.

The state-controlled Lagos radio reported Friday that Interior Minister Mohammed Magoro had met with ambassadors from neighboring countries whose citizens were affected by the expulsion order. The radio quoted ministry officials as saying foreigners would be driven to the borders in ministry vehicles or allowed to buy airline tickets with Nigerian currency. Ordinarily, foreigners must pay in foreign currency.

Ghanaian officials said about 300,000 of the 700,000 foreigners were migrant workers from Ghana. Officials said 100,000 were from Niger and most of the rest from Chad and Cameroon.

In addition to the attraction of Nigeria's oil boom, many of the non-Ghanaians came to Nigeria to escape drought and the threat of famine in their home countries. ---- BENIN BLOCKS HUNDREDS COTONOU, Benin, May 4 (Reuters) - Several hundred illegal aliens, expelled from Nigeria and barred from entering Benin, camped Friday night in a no-man's land between the two countries, witnesses said today.

Benin border officials, who turned non-Benin nationals away, said that Nigeria's opening of the border had surprised them and that they had received ''no clear instructions'' on how to deal with the influx of aliens.

Benin officials said they were justified in rejecting non-Benin nationals since many of the aliens might try to stay in Benin because they had no money to continue their journey.

No vehicles were officially reported to have crossed the frontier Friday, but witnesses reported that many minibuses and private cars with Nigerian license plates had entered Benin along isolated bush tracks.

Foreigners who went through the bush will now have to obtain permits to travel through Benin, a tightly controlled Marxist nation, if they are to reach their final destination.

*** speechless ***

In other news, so GEJ is not the cause This is a new one.

Here's ALL what the link on BBC says:

"Ghana Must Go"

Thirty years ago, Nigeria ordered up to 2 million illegal immigrants to leave the country within a few weeks. The majority were Ghanaian.

And the op twisted everything as seen in the original post including the title.

Lalasticlala, Seun, Obinoscopy, I recommend this thread be pulled down or edited to represent what is actually available on the link, and the op be handed a lengthy ban for gross violation of Rule 8.

Thanks.

Although what Buhari did was silly, Nigerians did not kill any Ghanian.
These are 2 different things.

They'll surely blame Nigeria

No, I totally disagree with the BBC story. Reason? The 1984 fiasco was a different story in that the Nigerian Government ordered the Ghanaians out of Nigeria (for reasons best known to the authorities). In SA today, their government is feigning ignorance while their citizens slaughter their African brothers. Let Zuma come on air to order all non-South Africans out of his country in the shortest possible time. This step will be more civilized than what obtains now, IMHO. After all, SA belongs to South Africans while Nigeria is ours. Nigeria rocks!

lionstone:
Buhari Initiated Xenophobia In
Africa. - BBC News!!!
The British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) has have
linked the current hate attacks
on Africans living in South Africa
by the locals to Muhammadu
Buhari and Shagari, who gave
the same treatment to Africans,
mostly West Africans in 1984.
They claimed that the 'Ghana-
must-go' policy against Africans
was Muhammadu Buhari's
Legacy to Africa in 1984.
The Seed of the shameful
xenophobic Atrocities the World
is sadly witnessing in South
Africa presently was actually
sown by Buhari more than 30
Years ago...
The world keeps quite as Evil
people destroy the peace of the
Earth. The Oba of Lagos, Oba
Akiolu and the US based
Cardiologist, Dr Adeniran
Abraham Ariyo who called for the
Mass killing of Igbos in Nigeria
and overseas need to stopped
before they start or their
utterances ignites another
genocide.
SOURCE:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013t60w

why are Nigerians so dull. Try and read books sometimes so that when you get to nigerian history you would know that shagari a democractically elected president kicked the Ghanaians out and moreover the ghanaians kicked out the Nigerians first. Ibo troublemakers, always out to destabilize Nigeria. Enemies of the Nigerian state.

The so called "international media house" is appearing to be short of information, history and mis-informed.

Buhari has no link with xenophobia!!

They forgot Ghanaian chased us out first before we retaliated in 1984.

omenka:
Here's ALL what the link on BBC says:
And the op twisted everything as seen in the original post including the title.

Lalasticlala, Seun, Obinoscopy, I recommend this thread be pulled down or edited to represent what is actually available on the link, and the op be handed a lengthy ban for gross violation of Rule 8.

Thanks.

it needs to make front page so we all would know those who really needs psychiatric attention cuz of their hatred for GMB

PassingShot:
[s]How is a government that officially asked foreigners to leave the country for economic benefit of her citizens the same as a people who kill foreigners for their own failure?

Has SA asked foreigners to leave the country for some economic benefits of her people, it would not be an issue[/s].

How is a Nigerian citizens call for the killing of fellow citizens from a particular ethnic group different from a people who kill foreigners for their own failure. As a matter of fact, the comments from oba of lagoon and adeniran ariyo is worse than the king of Zulu's call that led to xenophobic attacks in SA.

Take the wool out of your eye first Mr man

Junk

"And they say it's the white man I should fear, but it's my own kind doing all the killing here." - 2Pac"

shizzleStar:
How is a Nigerian citizens call for the killing of fellow citizens from a particular ethnic group different from a people who kill foreigners for their own failure. As a matter of fact, the comments from oba of lagoon and adeniran ariyo is worse than the king of Zulu's call that led to xenophobic attacks in SA.

Take the wool out of your eye first Mr man

Did you read the OP or the link given? What is the correlation of the news and your ranting?

omenka:
Here's ALL what the link on BBC says:
And the op twisted everything as seen in the original post including the title.

Lalasticlala, Seun, Obinoscopy, I recommend this thread be pulled down or edited to represent what is actually available on the link, and the op be handed a lengthy ban for gross violation of Rule 8.

Thanks.

What is the difference from the article below and what the op posted.

Why are you extremely opposed to any article critical of your messiah's past and present?

EXPELLED FOREIGNERS POURING OUT OF NIGERIA By The Associated Press
Published: May 5, 1985

LAGOS, Nigeria, May 4— Thousands of illegal aliens, carrying mattresses, clothing and cooking utensils, poured back across the borders to their homelands today, ordered out by Nigeria's military rulers.

The foreigners had been attracted to Nigeria in part by an oil boom in the 1970's, but now the West African nation has deep economic problems and an increasing crime rate, which it attributes in large measure to the immigrants.

On Friday, the Government opened its borders to speed the expulsion of 700,000 foreigners. It was the first time Nigeria's borders with Benin, Niger, Chad and Cameroon were open since April 1984, when the Government closed them to combat the black market in the country's ailing currency, the naira.

The aliens, who were ordered out last month, were part of the second wave of foreigners to be forced from Nigeria by the Government in three years.

Reporters at the western border with Benin today said Nigerian customs officials were searching the departing foreigners closely and refusing to let tiem carry out more than the 20 naira, or $17.65, allowed by law. They also said bus drivers were doing a brisk business charging twice the normal fare to carry passengers across the border.

The illegal immigrants were among the millions of West Africans, mostly from Ghana, who flooded into Nigeria in hopes of benefiting from the country's oil-based economy.

But world demand for oil has waned and the price has dropped, sending Nigeria into a steep economic decline and swelling its foreign debt.

In January 1983, the civilian Government of President Shehu Shagari ordered out about two million foreigners, blaming them for widespread unemployment and crime. Roads to the border were clogged with people carrying personal belongings.

Maj. Gen. Mohammed Buhari overthrew Mr. Shagari in December 1983, and last month the Buhari Government announced it was giving the remaining illegal aliens until May 10 1985 to leave.

But until the Government opened the borders on Friday, only small groups were reported to have left on planes and ships.

The state-controlled Lagos radio reported Friday that Interior Minister Mohammed Magoro had met with ambassadors from neighboring countries whose citizens were affected by the expulsion order. The radio quoted ministry officials as saying foreigners would be driven to the borders in ministry vehicles or allowed to buy airline tickets with Nigerian currency. Ordinarily, foreigners must pay in foreign currency.

Ghanaian officials said about 300,000 of the 700,000 foreigners were migrant workers from Ghana. Officials said 100,000 were from Niger and most of the rest from Chad and Cameroon.

In addition to the attraction of Nigeria's oil boom, many of the non-Ghanaians came to Nigeria to escape drought and the threat of famine in their home countries. ---- BENIN BLOCKS HUNDREDS COTONOU, Benin, May 4 (Reuters) - Several hundred illegal aliens, expelled from Nigeria and barred from entering Benin, camped Friday night in a no-man's land between the two countries, witnesses said today.

Benin border officials, who turned non-Benin nationals away, said that Nigeria's opening of the border had surprised them and that they had received ''no clear instructions'' on how to deal with the influx of aliens.

Benin officials said they were justified in rejecting non-Benin nationals since many of the aliens might try to stay in Benin because they had no money to continue their journey.

No vehicles were officially reported to have crossed the frontier Friday, but witnesses reported that many minibuses and private cars with Nigerian license plates had entered Benin along isolated bush tracks.

Foreigners who went through the bush will now have to obtain permits to travel through Benin, a tightly controlled Marxist nation, if they are to reach their final destination.