National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said it would shut
down South African businesses in Nigeria over the continued attack on
Nigerians living in South African.
A copy of notification letter dated 22ndJuly 2019, which was signed by
the National Director of Sports, NANS, Mr Anthony Ojiaku and addressed
to some South African businesses in Nigeria, which was obtained by
journalists in Awka on Wednesday revealed that the students had planned
to shut down the MTN Office in Awka.
The letter which was copied to the State Director, Department of State
Security (DSS) and the state Police Commissioner read in part, “We wish
to introduce to you the National Association of Nigeria Student (NANS),
the umbrella body of Nigerian students studying both at home and the
Diaspora with a strength of 40.1 million students.
“We are poised to protecting the rights and interest of Nigerian
students and her citizens.
“We write to you on the need to conform with the matching order given by
the national secretariat of NANS that all south African businesses in
Nigeria should vacate Nigeria as a result of the continued xenophobic
attack on Nigerians living in South Africa and the killing of Mrs
Elizabeth Ndubuisi-Chukwu, Deputy Director General of Chattered
Insurance Institute of Nigeria at Emperor Palace Hotel, Johanesburg in
June.”
The group said the organizations must note that their safety are not
guaranteed if they failed to comply, while also adding that South
African youths who engage in xenophobic killings had no monopoly to
violence as the group would not continue to watch while its citizens
were killed in the country.
A source within the association said that the group had slated any
moment Wednesday to shut down the MTN office in Awka, while on Thursday,
it would move to Onitsha where it would equally shut down another South
African business concern; Shoprite.
It was gathered that the body of Mrs Ndubuisi-Chukwu who was killed in
South African in June would be buried today (Wednesday) at his home
town, Ihiala in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Chukwu’s body which had earlier been flown down from South Africa had
been in an undisclosed morgue in Asaba, Delta State, from where it would
be conveyed home for burial today.
Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra state has written both the Nigeria and
South African government on the need to find her killers, saying that he
would not relent until her killers were apprehended and prosecuted.