File: Senator Adams Oshiomhole
Senator Adams Oshiomhole has called on the Federal Government to appropriate profits made by South African companies operating in Nigeria.
He said the funds should be used to compensate Nigerians whose businesses and properties were destroyed during recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
The lawmaker made the call on during a plenary session Tuesday in reaction to comments by South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, who had ruled out government compensation for affected Nigerians.
Ntshavheni had argued that only legally registered properties qualified for compensation, adding that informal settlements did not meet this requirement.
