{"id":34685,"date":"2019-09-17T13:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=34685"},"modified":"2019-09-17T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:59:45","slug":"xenophobia-will-make-investment-in-your-country-difficult-obasanjo-tells-sa-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/xenophobia-will-make-investment-in-your-country-difficult-obasanjo-tells-sa-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Xenophobia Will Make Investment In Your Country Difficult, Obasanjo Tells SA Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo says xenophobic attacks in South Africa will make investment in the country difficult.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a politician and leader of the Zulu ethnic group, on Monday, Obasanjo said the attacks were capable of scaring investors away and crippling the economy.<\/p>\n

Buthelezi had condemned the xenophobic attacks\u00a0while addressing a mob in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

The ex-president said it will be wrong for South Africa to believe that the attacks will make more jobs available to its citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs it is being touted that xenophobia will give South Africans more jobs, I dare say, it is fallacy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cXenophobia will make investment in South Africa more difficult, which will lead to lack of job creation and loss of existing jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obasanjo faulted the South African police for not doing enough while the attacks on foreign nationals went on.<\/p>\n

He said Africans ought to be treated as brothers and friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was experienced in South Africa in recent times and it shows either incompetence or collusion on the part of the police,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that Africans living in any other part of Africa must be treated as brothers and friends.<\/p>

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\u201cIf they commit any crime, they should be treated like citizens of that country will be treated when they commit crime which will mean applying judicial process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obasanjo said the evacuation of Nigerians from South Africa should not be regarded as the solution to such a problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepatriation of Nigerians from South- Africa is obviously not a permanent solution. At best, it is palliative because the hurt will still remain for some time and revenge is also not the desirable solution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMutual understanding and acknowledgement of what needs to be done on all sides is imperative and getting down to doing them is the solution that will serve Nigeria and South Africa and indeed Africa, particularly in this era of Africa Continental Free Trade Area opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ex-president called on African leaders to take the issue to the level of the African Union should South Africa fail to address the problem appropriately.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the final analysis, if South- Africa fails to initiate appropriate and satisfactory steps to deal with the issues to pacify affected victims and work for reconciliation, the countries concerned should come together to table appropriate motions at the African Union level first and consider other measures if the situation is allowed to continue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has helped most developed countries in the world is openness and receiving migrants with open hands and open minds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn any case, all of us in the world are migrants, no matter where we live, depending only on how far back you want to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, 187 Nigerians were evacuated\u00a0from South Africa owing to the attacks.<\/p>\n

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