Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has vowed to take measures over the ‘mindless’ attack on Nigerians in South Africa, Igbere TV reports.
President of the Nigeria Union South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, had said that recent attacks began on Sunday morning in Jeppestown area of Johannesburg.
Mr Olubajo said in a statement on Monday that the mob “looted several shops that were around the vicinity suspected to be owned by foreign nationals.”
He said the police later dispersed the mob and made some arrests.
Olubajo added: “Late in the evening of Sunday, September 1, a group of violent locals suspected to be Zulu hostel dwellers besieged Jules Street in Malvern; Johannesburg looted and burned shops/businesses.”
In a tweet on Monday, Onyeama assured that ‘definitive measures’ would be taken to prevent future occurrences.
“Received sickening and depressing news of continued burning and looting of Nigerian shops and premises in #SouthAfrica by mindless criminals with ineffective police protection. Enough is enough. We will take definitive measures,” he said.
Onyeama was part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s entourage to TICAD7 in Japan where he also met South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, who assured that South Africa was making efforts to stop the attack on Nigerians.
