WHAT NIGERIA HAS DONE FOR SOUTH AFRICA AND HOW THEY ARE PAYING US BACK WITH XENOPHOBIC KILLING OF THERE AFRICAN BROTHER ESPECIALLY NIGERIA
During the apartheid regime in South Africa, Nigeria alone provided 5million dollars annual subvention to the ANC and the Pan Africanist Congress annually in the 1970s
In 1976, Nigeria set up the Southern Africa Relief fund (SAFR) destined to bring relief to the victims of the apartheid regime in South Africa, provide educational opportunities for them and promote the general welfare. However, The military administration of General Obasanjo contributed 3.7million dollars to the fund also Gen Obasanjo made a personal donation of 3000 dollars while the cabinet members made contribution of 1.500 dollars. All Nigeria's civil servants and public officers made two percent donation from there monthly salary to the SAFR, students skipped their lunch to make donations and this donnations were known as Mandela tax
In June 1977, the contribution of the fund reached 10.5milion dollars also in 1976, 86 South African students were accepted in Nigeria to study for free because of the disruption of there education system which started after 700 students were massacred. Nigeria had also welcomed many renowned South Africans like Thabo Mbeki ( the former South African President from 1999 to 2008)
As for trade, Nigeria had refused to sell oil to South Africa for decades in protest against the white minority rule , as a result Nigeria had lost approximately 41billion during that period. Above all Nigeria was the only nation worldwide to set up the National Committee Against Apartheid
In the present Nigeria today, South African own's more than 14 companies in Nigeria ; MTN, Power Giant, Eskon Nigeria, South African Breweries, ShopRite, Stanbk merchant Banks of Nigeria, Multichose, Umgeni water, Refresh products, DSTV, Protea hotel, Oracle Airtime, LTA construction. Most of this companies make billions from Nigeria everyday yet they treat our brothers like animals over there. Nigeria both in past and in present has a role to play in the economy and politics of South African
Everything Nigeria has done and is doing for South Africa, they decided to pay us back with XENOPHOBIC killing Ang antagonism against their African brothers. I hope that the Nigeria government will do the needful to save our brothers and sisters in South Africa
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