By Adewale Adeoye
For over two decades, Nigerians have continuously been forced out of their homeland due to the suffocating, inhuman and degrading situation occasioned by wicked leaders.
Nigerians have become so desperately vicious in their quest to survive anywhere across the globe.
SA is one of the targets of Nigerians These attacks in SA will continue for some reasons:
1) The SA security are only slightly different from the attackers who target Nigerians. They are compromised.
2) No one has been successfully prosecuted for the attacks.This embolden South Africans to attack Nigerians.
3) In terms of investments in Nigeria, SA appears to have more investments here than Nigeria have in SA. So, Nigerians business allies would wish to sustain the relationship with SA at all costs driven by profit and would not support any retaliatory action from Nigerian FG
4) Many South Africans believe Nigerians are the masters behind many horrendous crimes like selling cocaine on the SA streets. Many South Africans see this as a brutal assault on their morality. Apart from selling Coke to South African youths, South Africans believe Nigerians are behind the introduction of cultism in their Universities and even secondary schools.
5) South Africans believe many Nigerians commit other armed crimes like armed robbery in some SA communities. They see this as an arrogant and disgraceful assault on the SA soil.
6) Many South Africans see Nigerians as audacious venturing into economic fields dominated by whites and where South Africans are green horns in some respect. This continue to fuel the resistance against Nigerian profile.
7) Some Nigerians in SA are involved in gang wars and running of rival crime cartels So apart from attacks from South Africans, Nigerian-on-Nigerian attacks are becoming too frequent.
SA and Nigeria should set up a Bilateral Committee made up of representatives from the two countries including security operatives from both countries.
Interpol should work with EFCC to identify the criminal elements for prosecution.
By the Committee, the issues should be addressed in a very honest and dispartionate manner.
But much will be achieved if law and order are taken as priority.
Nigerians who commit crimes in SA should be extradited and let them be jailed in Nigeria.
South Africans who kill Nigerians or burn their properties should be prosecuted to serve as deterent.
