The friendship that existed between Nigeria and South Africa seems to have been thawed as the country which has remained a major trading partner and regional ally deported 47 Nigerians yesterday.
According to Nigeria Immigration Service sources, the deportees made up of 46 males and one female were disembarked at the cargo terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos from a chartered flight from Johannesburg.
After waiting for sometime, the deportees were allowed to leave the airport to their homes or other destinations within Nigeria. Some of the deportees who spoke with newsmen said the South African
Authority has become antagonistic to Africans residing in that country and became very hostile with a regime of clampdowns and harassment.
The South Africa Authority they said was more hostile to African immigrants from Nigeria. The deportees noted that this attitude took a more aggressive tone immediately after the World Cup tournament, which was the first to be hosted by any African country.
“South Africans have always been hostile to Africans that live in their country while they fear the white people.
It is worse with us Nigerians who they believe take their jobs away, so they have been harassing us for many years now and after the World Cup they started harassing us again and now they have deported us. I left everything I have laboured for years there,” one of the deportees who refused to give his name said.
The deportee also said that they were treated like common criminals.
Two weeks ago there was report that a young Nigerian lady that lived and was studying in South Africa and returned to Nigeria to attend a wedding.
As she landed in Johannesburg she was stopped by Immigration at the airport and put on the next plane back to Nigeria.
The lady cried through the six hours flight to Lagos because she was a medical student in one of the universities in South Africa and she was to start her exams in the next two days before she was forced back to Nigeria.
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Posted: at 22-07-2010 09:26 AM (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Ify4life at 22-07-2010 10:03 AM (14 years ago) (f)
ok
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Posted: at 22-07-2010 10:03 AM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
when nigeria will start there own deportation , i mean ilega mmigrate back to there verious country i dont think it gonna work in this generation ,,,common sudan,deport even togo also deport,cameroun deport common ghana deport, kia i dont tired for this country
Posted: at 22-07-2010 10:09 AM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
mantoney at 22-07-2010 10:36 AM (14 years ago) (m)
chai i don diiiiie, which day in my life would i hear that Nigeria deported 20 US or 5 people from germany? what is nigeria turning into? are we sleeping or what? is this a country or what?
Posted: at 22-07-2010 10:36 AM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
small time u go hear say somailian deported 50 nigeria, by then if any body asked me are u from nigeria i will just tell him im from avrycoast abijan ivoria......so dat i free myself from shame
Posted: at 22-07-2010 11:17 AM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
ChristyHobbs at 22-07-2010 12:01 PM (14 years ago) (f)
Nigerians is time for us to rise again.Don't give in to failure.Show the world that you have all it takes to be good.I believe in Nigeria.I believe in Re-branding Nigeria.I believe in you...STAND OUT and make a difference.LOVE ALL
Posted: at 22-07-2010 12:01 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie
popo2009 at 22-07-2010 12:55 PM (14 years ago) (m)
Nigerians are good in Immigration Offences. Am a Nigerian but am sorry to say this we can do anything to stay in another country even the countries we are better than that is the problem with Nigerians. The Govt disgust me everyday. they dont even care
Posted: at 22-07-2010 12:55 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac
WE MAY HAVE HELPED SOUTH AFRICA ALOT DURING APARTHIED, INFACT WE HAD THE SOUTH AFRICA RELIEF FUND SO WE FUNDED THEIR INDEPENDENCE, HOWEVER, WHAT HV WE BEEN EXPORTING TO THEM THESE DAYS BESYDS CORRUPTION, ARMEDROBBERY & 419. WE ARE NOT ONLY STIGMATIZED IN SA BUT MOST PARTS OF THE WORLD HAVE COME TO KNOW NIGERIA AS A CORRUPT NON-CREDIBLE 3RD WORLD NATION. WE BETTER START RE-BUILDING
A man who stands for nothing, will fall for anything.
Posted: at 22-07-2010 01:02 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
Many yeye African countries don deport Nigerians....na Niger republic go be d next....Nigeria,Giant of Africa,good people,great nation....also fool @ forty !!
Posted: at 22-07-2010 01:11 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
Angel_ize at 22-07-2010 01:21 PM (14 years ago) (f)
Dont they know Kempton Park is the new Lagos :-) I expereinced first hand when the South AFrican Police rounded up the Nigerians and loaded them all into the back of a van...like a bunch of common criminals....yes alot of them are really being mistreated....luckily I was there with my husband and laughed in the face of the police when they tried to arrest him.......
Posted: at 22-07-2010 01:21 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie
nawa hooo enyway if our country can be doing all what we are going there for for us as for me i belive there is nothing need to go there must of the investment in that country maily our sons and douther that owns it may god help us
Posted: at 22-07-2010 01:25 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie
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