"I Wept When Returnees From South Africa Sang The National Anthem" - Air Peace Chief, Onyeama

Date: 12-09-2019 10:31 am (4 years ago) | Author: CLARA JANCITA
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Allen Onyeama, chairman of Air Peace, says he wept when Nigerians who were returning from South Africa mobbed him and sang the country’s anthem.

Onyeama disclosed this while addressing the media shortly after 187 Nigerians touched down at Lagos after being evacuated from South Africa over xenophobic attacks.



In the wake of persistent attacks on Nigerians and other foreigners, the airline had offered free flights to those who sought to return.

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“I put together over N280 million in other to bring these people back, Air Peace decided to bring them free of charge, nobody paid us a dime, we decided to do it free of charge for our country and for our people,”
he said.

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“When I stepped inside the aircraft to welcome them, they mobbed me and started singing the Nigerian national anthem, there was nobody there singing about separation, they felt proud to be Nigerian, they rose in unison, that drew tears from me.”


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- kp45 at 12-09-2019 11:02 AM (4 years ago)
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- Henrybobo at 12-09-2019 11:49 AM (4 years ago)
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- fineboy77 at 12-09-2019 12:11 PM (4 years ago)
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- Wazubia at 12-09-2019 02:37 PM (4 years ago)
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- Boi2Man at 12-09-2019 04:31 PM (4 years ago)
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It is time  we started building our society to compete with other countries of the world. Our  Africanness is our identity. If we allow ourselves to be manipulated and be used against ourselves by the so call super countries; Africans will one day destroy Africa and by Africans machinated by the apatheists . So this a call to all Africans wake up!!!  Wake up Nigeria, wake up South Africa, wake up Egypt, wake up Ethiopia. Calling you Africans from Cairo to Cape Town and from Djibouti to Dakar wake up to the clarion call!!, 
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- rainbowlove at 12-09-2019 07:14 PM (4 years ago)
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