Nigeria demands ECOWAS position on xenophobic attacks in South Africa

Nigeria has called for the ECOWAS to take a position on the ongoing xenophobic activities in South Africa.

A statement by Kimiebi Ebiefa, foreign affairs ministry spokesman, quoted the ministry’s Minister of State, Amb. Sola Enikanolaiye, as condemning the clamp down on Africans by South African groups.

Enikanolaiye spoke on the margins of the ongoing 56th Session of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council holding in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

He decried Afrophobic sentiments and violence in South Africa, where citizens of other African States are hounded, and sometimes killed through mob actions, and described the trend as unacceptable.

Enikanolaiye called on the Council to come up with a firm, strongly-worded and collective position to be submitted to the African Union as earlier proposed by Ghana, to ensure sustainable solution to the challenges.

Speaking about insecurity in the subregion, he proposed constant dialogue with the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES), to bolster joint efforts toward tackling the challenge.

Enikanolaiye, in the statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, stressed that the dialogue would also promote regional peace and boost security within West Africa and the Sahel.

While highlighting major challenges to democracy, regional peace, stability, security and development in the sub-regions, he said they called for innovative.

The minister also emphasised the need for prompt payment of community levy by ECOWAS member states, unity in tackling terrorism and other organised crimes, promotion of democracy and good governance, among other things, to achieve set targets.

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