Tunji Light Ariyomo: South Africa, criminal ingratitude and the Nigerian blood
In 1983, Ghanaians were expelled from Nigeria, as a deliberate policy of state, by the Shagari-led Federal Government . The federal police and allied agencies implemented that directive.
There was no citizen-grade collective hatred towards Ghanaians. The innately accommodating attitude of the Nigerian masses, in my opinion, was the reason why Shagari’s directive was not spontaneously embraced with reckless and wanton street bloodshed as is happening today in South Africa against Nigerians.
Also, it is on record that the late Moshood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola as Africa’s richest man made substantial financial contribution to support the welfare of South Africans under the repressive regime of apartheid . It is also on record that Nigeria was the destination of choice to asylum-seeking prominent black South African dissidents and activists.
What is happening in South Africa is unfortunately a fatal remainder of the gravely impaired faculty of the black man. The penurious is killing the poor so he could get the position occupied by the beggarly. As Malema had rightly put it, Nigerians and other black nationalities in South African are people striving to eke out a living – the best way they could. They did not build industries and refuse to give jobs to indigenous South Africans.
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