The
Chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has condemned
the ill treatment and extreme discrimination against Nigerians in South Africa.
Dabiri-Erewa, representing
Ikorodu Federal Constituency in Lagos State, who visited the prisons alongside
two members of the committee, Ajibola Famurewa and Umaru Shidanfi, consular
officers of the Nigerian Embassy and executives of the Nigerian Union in South
Africa, disclosed that over 400,000 Nigerians were currently living in South
Africa.
According to her; “The inmates
complained of extreme discrimination by the prison authorities in South Africa.
The law enforcement officers always maltreat citizens of Nigeria for
unjustifiable reasons”.
“Sometimes, the authorities tore
into pieces their Nigerian passports among several other allegations and
refused to grant them bail, while others from other countries that committed
similar bailable offence were granted bail,” she added.
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