The Federal Government has summoned the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Bobby Moroe, over the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.
Mr Moroe will meet with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, at 11 am on Tuesday, a senior official of the ministry, Kimiebi Ebenfa, told Igbere TV.
Onyeama had vowed to take measures over the ‘mindless’ attack on Nigerians in South Africa.
In a tweet on Monday, he 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,” the minister said.
His statement followed the latest attack on foreigners in South Africa, especially Nigerians whose shops were looted and property set ablaze.
The recent attacks began last week after a taxi driver was murdered by an alleged drug dealer in Pretoria.
Speculations that the alleged killer was a Nigerian sparked protest, looting and burning of business centres owned by foreigners.
