Whatever our challenges and our concerns about one another may be we will sit down, work them out and stay together all for the sake of our respective nations and the benefit of Mother Africa… As High Commissioner of Nigeria to South Africa it is my primary duty to strengthen ties between our two great nations and ensure that our relationship remains strong, respectful, mutually beneficial and cordial… In addition to that I have a duty to protect the interests of every Nigerian in South Africa who is properly documented and that abides by the law.
To buttress the point, permit me to share the words of Mr Kio Amachree, a Stockholm-based Nigerian writer.
On 13th July, he wrote the following on X:
“I do not know a Nigerian who would sell his soul the way the anti-immigrant mobs of South Africa have done this past month. Every unreconstructed apartheid nostalgist is laughing behind his locked gates at how easily these movements were turned against their fellow Africans, doing the dirty work of division for free and making the power grab of others so much easier.”
He added:
