THIS IS HAYBEE'S BLOG

Monday 13 March 2017

Xenophobia: Nigeria, South Africa set up early warning unit

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyema, said on Monday that Nigeria and South Africa have agreed to set up an early warning unit  to check future xenophobic attacks.
Onyema, who is leading a Federal Government delegation to that country, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone from Pretoria, South Africa.
The minister said the early warning unit would comprise representatives of the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs, police, and immigration, representatives of Nigerian High Commission, consulate and Nigeria Union.
“They will meet every three months and that will be a framework within which the Nigeria Union in South Africa will be able to engage on a permanent basis with the main high level government officials of this country.
“ We believe that it will enable them in sharing intelligence, information and being proactive to prevent this kind of thing ever happening again, he said.
Onyema said the delegation had positive  discussions with the South African Foreign Affairs Ministry and  Home Affairs Ministry  on how to protect Nigerians and their property.
He said the meeting agreed to set up the early warning unit to dialogue quarterly to prevent such incident.
The President of Nigeria Union, Mr Ikechukwu Anyene, said Nigerians in South Africa appreciated the delegation’s visit.
“The spirit of our people here has been lifted. The mood has changed and our people are happy,” he said.
Anyene said the early warning unit set up by the two governments was a positive development because the union would be in a position to interact with top government officials regularly.
“ On our part, we will advance social cohesion between Nigerians and South Africans,” he said.
NAN reports that the delegation visited business premises and homes of Nigerians attacked during the xenophobic incidents  in  February.


Share:

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Technology

Powered by Blogger.

Ads Top

Facebook

Blog Archive

Find Us On Facebook

Subscribe Here

Share Us

Navigation-Menus (Do Not Edit Here!)

Random Posts

Flickr

Social Share

Random Posts

Recent Posts

Recent in Sports

Recent comments

Formulir Kontak

Name

Email *

Message *

Events

Ads

Popular Posts

Most Popular

Blog Archive

Recent Posts

Unordered List

Pages

Theme Support