The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has
called on the Nigerian parliamentary delegation to South Africa to extend its
fact-finding mission to other Nigerians being kept in solitary confinement in
various South Africa prisons.
MEND said secret xenophobic attacks take place in South
Africa prisons.
It listed its former leader, Henry Okah, who is currently
serving a jail term at Korkstad Prison in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Province of South
Africa among those suffering xenophobic attacks in the country.
In a statement on Saturday by its spokesman, Jomo Gbomo,
MEND said, “There are hundreds of Nigerians in South Africa who are serving
various prison sentences or awaiting trial. From the reports available to us,
many of these Nigerians are subjected to xenophobic attacks as they are
regularly singled out for harassment, on account of their nationality or
arbitrarily isolated in solitary confinement, by South African prison
officials.
“We, therefore, call on the Nigerian parliamentary
delegation to find time to also visit various prison facilities in South Africa
where they will, indeed, be confronted with the real victims of xenophobia in
South Africa.”
While commiserating with thousands of Nigerians who had
suffered from the recent attack, it added, “We are constrained to draw the
attention of the National Assembly delegation to other variants of xenophobic
attacks which are not in the public domain.”
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