By Favour Ulebor, Abuja
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, has called on the African Union to place xenophobic attacks against Africans, particularly Nigerians in South Africa, high on its peace and security agenda, insisting that no African should feel unsafe anywhere on the continent.
In a press statement on Wednesday signed by the ministry’s spokesperson, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, the minister made the call while receiving a high-level delegation of the African Union Peace and Security Council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja following the Third Annual Joint Consultative Meeting between the AU Peace and Security Council and the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council.
Enikanolaiye described the recent attacks on African nationals in South Africa as unacceptable and contrary to the ideals of African unity, solidarity and integration on which the African Union was founded.
He disclosed that under the directive of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Federal Government had evacuated affected Nigerians from South Africa through government-funded repatriation flights to ensure their safe return home.
