Xenophobic Attacks: South African authorities ‘delay’ Air Peace landing permit
The evacuation of the second batch of Nigerians from South Africa owing to ongoing xenophobic attacks suffered an interruption on Tuesday following the delay in granting landing permit to Air Peace.
There was a plan for the airline to evacuate another batch of 320 Nigerians who had indicated interest to return home, with the flight expected to arrive in Lagos at 7 p.m on Tuesday. According to him, the aircraft is supposed to have departed Lagos at 10 a.m. but was denied landing permit by the South African authorities.
“We are hopeful that they will give us the permit. Our crew waited till 3 a.m, but when the permit did not come, they went back to the hotel.“Once we get the permit we will set off to South Africa. We don’t want to speculate but we are hopeful they will give the permit,” Mr Onyema said.
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