According to her, her parents are looking for buyers for their properties before coming back to Nigeria.

It was learnt that as of Sunday, no fewer than 700 Nigerians were waiting for evacuation from South Africa.

A source, who confided in The PUNCH, said, “We cannot rule out the possibility that out of the 700, more will back out and prefer to stay back in South Africa.

One of our correspondents learnt that many Nigerians chose to stay back following the reduction in attacks on foreigners by South African youths.

It was reported that 817 Nigerians were awaiting evacuation out of the 1,004 that were registered.

The Air Peace Airline had brought back 315 persons out of the 1,004 Nigerians who registered for evacuation last Wednesday, while the first flight returned to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, with 187 individuals out of the 317 scheduled for the first evacuation flight on September 11.

The shortfall was blamed on the documentation challenges faced by many of the returnees who did not possess valid Nigerian passports.

But speaking with one of our correspondents on the phone on Sunday, the Consul-General, Nigerian High Commission in South Africa, Mr Godwin Adama, said many people were still registering to leave South Africa. He, however, noted that the number was reducing.

Fear of arrest at airport forcing some to stay back – Consular general

He said, “The people are still registering, although the number is going down. About 501 persons have gone and based on our list, we have over 700. At a stage, some people changed their minds. When you call them, they say they have changed their minds. Last week, I think we had over 100 who said they had changed their minds.

The diplomat explained that some Nigerians also stayed back because they were misinformed that they could be arrested at the airport for not having genuine travel documents.

He explained that the mission officials had to replace those who did not show up for evacuation with the individuals, who were on the ground and were ready to leave for Nigeria.

Adama noted, “The people who really wanted to go, who were ready, were the ones that had left. We had to fill the slots with over 100 people who were ready.

You know they circulate fake news. Some told me that they learnt that if they went there (airport), they would be arrested. That is not true. We helped anyone with problems with the process.”

Asked about the next evacuation flight, the consular general disclosed that no date had been fixed, adding that this would be decided during the week.

We have not agreed on the next flight because we are quite busy, the President (Muhammadu Buhari) is coming here. We may decide during the week,” he said.

Meanwhile, a 17-year-old South African returnee, Ijeoma Maduagwu, has described the possibility of returning to South Africa as a death wish.

The teenager and her two younger siblings were among Nigerians evacuated from South Africa over xenophobic attacks.

In a video clip tagged, ‘Xenophobia: Behind the scenes of Air Peace Rescue Mission,’ Maduagwu said her parents put her and her younger siblings on the plane to join their relatives in Lagos.

The teenager, who described life in South Africa as dangerous, said her parents were afraid for the safety of her and her siblings, hence the decision to send them back to Lagos.

Asked why the parents were not on the flight, Maduagwu said they were looking for buyers for their properties.

She said, “I don’t wish going back there because if I wish going back, I wish myself death.

Girls and women are being raped. Children are being kidnapped. Foreigners are being killed. People are dying every day. Shops are being burnt and this is a disappointment not only to Africa, but other parts of the world. Xenophobia is a really bad action against foreigners. These are my siblings, Uzorka, five years old; and Ngozi.

My parents are in South Africa but they will come with the next flight. My parents asked me to go ahead with my siblings because they don’t feel safe. They said ‘let us just send you to a family in Nigeria and we’ll see what will happen’. They still have to sell their properties before coming to Nigeria.

The returnees, while expressing their gratitude to the Chairman of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema, said but for the free flight offered by the airline, returning to Nigeria would have been very difficult.

Responding, Onyema said, “What this means to me; I cannot go to my grave with my bank account, I cannot go to my grave with my wallet but I can go to my grave with the legacy that I leave behind and I will call on everybody to be their brothers’ keeper.

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Seun made this site way too light

people do not care about this family. nigeria only cares about you when they benefit from you. and the care is usually false care. this family has been displaced not because of war or anything but because our leaders are bad. people blame the wrong people for nil reason. the nigerians in south africa do not have to suffer like this. Buhari has known of these killings for years. this thing did not start today. they just kept quiet. I was in south africa many years ago and i discovered nigerians have been killed even by the SA police for decades now. oSINbanjo could not travel to SA to comfort his people but he went to the funeral of a dictator who impoverished hi country and spent his years fighting the westerners instead of fighting poverty.
there is nothing like the presence of a representative of a high calibre visiting his people undergoing hardship. it gives them hope. now the press wants to make a fuss about his family as if they care. they will not help to seek buyers. they did not collect details of the properties so as to help advertise them. they just make money from the story.
the cause of the problem in SA is not the igbos. it is the government. people are suffering. people need to make the money at all cost. people have been displaced in the north by boko haram. there is no support or food stamps given to these people. how do they survive? if such a person finds a way to SA he will do anything to make it. find your voice in the root cause of the problem. our government is bad. they blame the igbos but ghanaians also are being killed. kenyans also. they are not igbos, are they? the problem of the country is having a skeleton so sick who sits in the position of power but only uses the power to protect cows. he is busy fighting for the interest of muslims in the north. he has no friends in the west or in the east or south. but the person who actually made Buhari what he is is Obasanjo a westerner. and that man he and the stupid rotten teeth jagaban are trying to rubbish.
obasanjo appointed this racist and tribal jubril in 1970ies and gave him the position of power. obasanjo could have appointed yoruba people only but he diversified. even in his return, though he was imprisoned by a northerner, he did not take it on other northerners, he reached out to the north and appointed many of them. even placed a northerner in his seat on departure.
today we have a president who only cares about muslims and northerners and cows. the rest can die. look at his face and you can the nomadic hatred that he has for some certain tribes in nigeria.

I am still asking why people in warri cannot have papers to print their passports. for months now. is this fair? is it because they are not muslims or northerners?

Too bad

May God save them

Ijeoma don add zobo and kunu.

What if they get killed before the sell it?
Why not return with all the necessary papers and when the coast clears they can return to sell it?


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The kids already looking Satafrikaan, what the actual f¤ck?

Soo when we see ur parents in Nigeria, we'll know they have lots of money in dia accnt.....Kids need to be taught how to keep secrets .

What if they get killed in the process?


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realestniggah:
Seun made this site way too light

Dis nairaland self, comment go soon dey enter before post...kilode

Seun osewa, who be your website developer?

person no gbadun this new font naaah. abeg make him return am back to how e be before. ..


if na u dey modify am, u go need an apartment in SA, make u go represent us (Nigerians) for there... .



I hail u, bro.

too bad and the worth of properties will drop since their are few buyers and so many want to sell. May God protect them, South Africans will regret this in the near future

realestniggah:
Seun made this site way too light

Low-Budget !! He might have been affected too

Hmmmmmm

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Wuzyurdaddy:
The kids already looking Satafrikaan, what the actual f¤ck?

I wanted saying the same thing.....see their bulging eyes