XENOPHOBIC: - 600 Nigerians Indicate Willingness To Return From South Africa

The Nigerian Mission in South Africa says no fewer than 600 Nigerians have indicated interest and registered to be evacuated from South Africa following the recent xenophobic attacks.
This represent an increase from the earlier reports that claim from some section of media that four hundred Nigerians are ready to come home.
Addressing the press after a meeting with the Senate Committee on Diaspora, chaired by Senator Surajudeen Ajibola-Baisru,Chairman Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa maintained that in no distance time those that have register with the Nigeria authority in south Africa would be flown back home as soon as arrangement about their return journey are perfected.
She said they would be taken back home in two batches.
Dabiri-Erewa,also said that no Nigerian died but property worth millions of dollars owned by Nigerians were vandalized, burn in fresh attacks.
She added that Nigeria would not stop to demand compensation for the victims of xenophobic attacks in South Africa
The Chairman Senate Committee on Diasporal Senator Surajudeen Ajibola-Basiru said there is inter-parliamentary engagement between the South Africa country and Nigeria on how to fashion solution to the issue of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians.
Meanwhile, South Africa has rulled out paying compensation to those foreigners killed in the xenophobic attacks claiming that compensation is not that country's constitution.

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