– Delta state government and police authorities had prevailed on NANS to halt planned attack of South African firms
– NANS Zone B had planned to attack Shoprite and other South African firms in its area of operation over killing of Nigerians in South Africa
– But NANS said it had respect for the state government and the police, hence it aborted the move
Delta state government and the state Police Command, on Monday, blocked moves by members of the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) Zone B, to attack Shoprite and other companies with South African interest in the South-South and South-East regions of Nigeria.
The aborted attacks by the students’ body was in retaliation of the killings of Nigerians and other blacks in South Africa over an allegation of taking their jobs away from them.
But the state government and police authorities which got wind of the planned attack by the students, led by the zonal coordinator of NANS, Pedro Obi, intervened and appealed to them to shelve the picketing of firms with South African interests in the two geo-political zones.
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Speaking to newsmen after the aborted protest, Obi said the students succumbed because of the regard they have for the state government and police authorities, adding that Shoprite and other companies with South African interest also have “Nigerian interests and we are not ready to put more Nigerians into further hardship.”
Condemning the xenophobic attacks, Obi frowned at the nonchalant attitude of the South African government to the killings of Nigerians in that country.
He urged President Jacob Zuma to stop playing politics with the lives of innocent Nigerians and frowned at the “snail pace of the Nigerian government in handling the xenophobic attacks.”
It will be recalled that the national leadership of NANS had last month mobilized students against businesses with South African interests in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, in the wake of the killings of Nigerians in South Africa.
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