Senate to send strong delegation to SA over xenophobic attacks

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February 28, 2017 3:13 PM

The decision was taken during the plenary session on Tuesday, February 28, after Senator Rose Oko moved a motion urging the Senate to intervene in the attacks.

The Senate has resolved to send a strong delegation to South Africa to register its anger at the

The decision was taken during the plenary session of the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday, February 28, after Senator Rose Oko moved a motion urging the Senate to intervene in the attacks.

The Senate subsequently decided “to send a strong parliamentary delegation to the South African parliament to register its displeasure at the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians.”

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa had earlier criticized the South African government over the attacks.

She especially condemned comments made by the South African Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba.

Gigaba is reported to have said that the issue of the xenophobic attacks will be settled at a diplomatic level.

Dabiri-Erewa however responded by saying that xenophobia had become a social disease which some South Africans need to be cured of.

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She also said that the Nigerian government would no longer sit and fold its arms while its citizens were being killed.

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