Xenophobia: South African policemen told us to return to our country– Nigerian wheelchair user XenophobiaInSouthAfrica SaturdayMotivation
Mojeed Kuku, a Nigerian confined to a wheelchair, who also lost his source of livelihood during the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa, shares his story with GBENRO ADEOYEI’m a general merchant; I import and export. I trade. My wife and I have a big shop where we sell goods.I’ve been here for 15 years. My wife and children are Nigerians. My children are schooling here – three boys. The youngest is 16 years old.This would be my first experience.
We just heard that they had started attacking foreigners on the street. We saw how they were setting the shops on fire. Everyone ran away. I could not even do anything as I was in a wheelchair. We are tired of this. And we had used all our money to stock goods instead of keeping it in the bank. We don’t like keeping money in the bank because here, if you as a foreigner have too much money in the bank, it will be a problem.
I’m living with a disability. I’m in a wheelchair. It happened when I was young. I worked hard to make a life for myself. I brought my wife and children to come and stay with me here a long time ago.There are friends who also had the same problems sometime ago.It is terrible because many of us communicate on aDoes it mean Nigerians now stay indoors and are afraid to go out?
We are afraid to go out. They attack people, especially in the areas where there were attacks, they said they don’t want Nigerians there.Central Pretoria. I heard it also happened at Mabopane Station on the outskirts of Pretoria. They said they attacked people and destroyed their shops there too. They injured many people.The police from Pretoria Central cannot do anything about it.
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