The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given a 48- hour ultimatum to all South African companies in Nigeria to relocate over the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.
\nThe students gave the ultimatum at a peaceful demonstration at some South African companies in Abuja yesterday.
\nDuring the march, the students carried a banner, which read: \u2018\u2019NANS Against Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians.\u2019\u2019
\nWhile the students marched, the security men stood and watched to ensure law and order.
\nThe President of NANS, Mr Kadiri Aruna, said in an interview with newsmen at\u00a0 DSTV office, a South African company, in Wuse 2, Abuja, that Nigerian students had resolved to condemn the attacks.
\n\u201cWe are saying that enough is enough as South Africans have openly attacked and bullied Nigerians.\u2019\u2019
\nAruna said that the protest would also serve as a warning to other countries trying to underrate Nigerians.
\nHe said that after 48 hours, if nothing was done, messages would be sent to students in all university campuses to bring down MTN masts all over the country.
\nAruna said that DSTV and Shoprite would also be affected as the union had put adequate strategies in place to make the action effective.
\n\u201cAll the South African business empires in Nigeria and their collaborators in Nigeria will be affected.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to say we will be barbaric but we will not be lawful in our actions, we will do it and face the consequences, enough of this rubbish,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nAruna stressed that the poor treatment being meted out to Nigerians was particularly insulting given the role Nigeria played in ending the apartheid regime in South Africa.
\n\u201cNigeria contributed 80 per cent of the freedom the South Africans are enjoying today because we saved them from the jaws of apartheid.
\n\u201cWho is South Africa to humiliate Nigeria? So they forget things so soon, let them go back to history and records to see how much financial assistance and what the country did to save them,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nThe union president said that the situation was inhuman and for this reason all reasonable Nigerians must react.
\n\u201cIn science they say you use malaria to cure malaria, now you use madness to cure their madness, and that is why we are advising them to leave Nigerian soil before 48 hours.\u2019\u2019
\nHe said that the Federal Government should not wait till the dying minute before evacuating Nigerians from South Africa.
\nAruna said it was time for government not to only condemn the attacks but take a firm stand by summoning South Africa\u2019s high commissioner and if possible cut diplomatic ties with that country.
\n\u201cGovernment should take extra-diplomatic measures in dealing with the latest deadly assaults because if nothing drastic is done it will become a regular occurrence.
\n\u201cThis is the time to place South Africa where it belongs,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nHe said that the last time the xenophobic attack happened nothing was done, no action was taken and no arrest was made and that was why South Africans repeated the attacks.
\nAruna said it was so unfortunate that during the attacks the South African Government refused to take up its responsibility of securing Nigerians and their properties.
\n\u201cThe government of South Africa is criminally quiet and they say silence is consent, and their police are folding their hands while they are killing Nigerians, this is conspiracy, enough is enough,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nHe said the peaceful rally would continue and spread across the country.
\nOver 50 police and, DSS operatives surrounded the DSTV premises and along the street making it impossible for NAN to contact any DSTV officials for comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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