Xenophobia: FG Seeks Forgiveness for South Africa

The Federal Government on Tuesday pleaded with Nigerians to forgive South Africa over Xenophobic attacks on foreigners in that country.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, made the plea when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs in Abuja. The Senate had summoned the minister for briefing on the recent xenophobic attacks in the former apartheid enclave.

Wali was accompanied to the session by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs II, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, the Nigerian envoys in South Africa, Messrs Uche Ajulu-Okeke, and Martin Cobham.
Wali specifically enjoined the Senate to reconsider its stand on the five-point resolution, seeking
severance of bilateral relation with South Africa.The Senate had last week, in a resolution urged the Nigerian government to recall its two envoys in Pretoria and Johannesburg as well as drag the Zulu king, Goodwill Zwelithini,  before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague.

The minister insisted that such drastic actions against the South Africa would adversely affect its economy and that Nigeria might attract negative publicity in the process.

Wali in his presentations explained that what happened in South Africa was not targeted at Nigerians, adding that the incident had negatively affected few Nigerians.
He said:

     “As at now the situation has not warranted such drastic actions like recalling our envoys in South Africa.  We are big brothers of Africa. We cannot retaliate by recalling our envoys because it will send wrong signals which could affect their economy.

    Even countries whose citizens were killed and got their shops looted have not taken such action.”

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Four drug traffickers excrete 171 wraps of cocaine

Four drug traffickers Ejiofor Eliezer (46), Obah Francis (30), Akpa Sobuzochukwu (27) and 36-year-old Ike Okechukwu all pictured above have been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, after they excreted 171 wraps of drug that tested positive for cocaine at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport.
According to Punch, the men were apprehended during the screening of passengers on board Qatar and Emirates airlines enroute to Brazil. One of the drug traffickers, Eliezer, who excreted 100 wraps of the drug, when interrogated, said poverty pushed him into the illicit business.

    “I live in Brazil, where I work in a supermarket and lived with my wife and four children. Life in Brazil is tough because I live from hand to mouth. It was poverty that made me to smuggle drugs. I took risk by swallowing 100 wraps of cocaine for N200,000 because of poverty.”he said

Another trafficker, Francis when interrogated said he ventured into drug trafficking to boost his meager salary he makes from his bakery job in Brazil. He said he would have made N2.8 million if he had succeeded.

    “I am single and have been working in Brazil for two years. At present, I work in a bakery and my salary is meager. My plan was to give the drug to a friend in Dubai, but he did not come to collect the drug as planned. This was how I had to come to Nigeria with the drug. I blame my friend for my arrest because I would have made S15,000 (about N2.8m) from the deal.”he said

Sobuzochukwu who holds a diploma in accounting, swallowed 26 wraps and was paid S1,500 i.e N285,000.

One of the traffickers, Okechukwu expressed his regrets

    “I regret my involvement in drug trafficking. I dropped out of school in Junior Secondary School class two and I work in a toy company in Brazil,” he added

According to NDLEA Chairman, Ahmadu Giade, they would be charged to court soon.

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