Nigerians lost N84million not N21million to Xenophobic Violence in South Africa

The actual material loss of Nigerians resident in South Africa to the orgies of xenophobic attacks has been put at over N84million and not earlier released total of N21million by the Nigerian High Commission in South Africa.

According to Ikechukwu Anyene, the President of Nigerian Union who spoke from Pretoria, South Africa on Saturday, April 25, 2015, the total loss to the unwarranted attacks and senseless killings is estimated to be N84million not N21million earlier released by the High Commission.

South Africans on rampage during the xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals

Anyene disclosed this on Saturday during a telephone conversation with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said “Nigerians total loss to the wave of xenophobic attacks is over R4.6million about N85million and not R1.2millon or N21million initially estimated”

He explained further that the Union had compiled and given the list of loss to the Nigeria’s Consul General in South Africa. 

Nigerian Consul General, Pretoria, South Africa

A wave of xenophobic attacks began March 30, 2015 when influential Zulu King, HRM Goodwill Boto Zwelithini spoke out against foreign nationals in the country. Zwelithinni was quoted as saying, 

“Let us pop out head lice. We must remove ticks and place them outside in the sun. We ask foreign nationals to pack their belonging and be sent back”

The Zulu king denied instigating South Africans to attack foreign nationals and said has been misquoted.

  

Zulu King, HRM Goodwill Boto Zwelithini