Led by the National Public Relations Officer, NANS, Adeyemi Azeez, the students stormed Lalubu street, Oke Lewo, located within the Central Business District of Abeokuta, the state capital, to protest.
They said companies like MTN, Shoprite, DSTV among others should exit.
“The anger of Nigerians especially our constituency, seems to have gotten to a point of real reaction against South Africans and their businesses in Nigeria”, The Nation quoted him as saying.
“Clearly, our detest of anything that has to do with the South Africans is not unconnected to the spate of killings of our people in their country which has now taken another gear.
“As students we had embarked on mild struggles in the past against this inhuman act of the South Africans but the animals in human flesh have proven to us that, they can only stop if we up our actions against them.
“It is however important to note that it is either they stop the killing of our people or we pursue these evil perpetrators to the gate of hell.
“Going forward, as young people who originally own this country and we would not wait for President Muhammadu Buhari who have refused to take a leadership and decisive position on the menace of the South Africans.
“To this end, we have decided not to attack these disgruntled elements until they defile our instructions which goes does.
“Firstly: All South African businesses must close every kind of business transactions (most especially the Stanbic IBTC) opened at any point with our people in the next 12 hours .
“Secondly: By Thursday morning, All South African business operating in Nigeria must shutdown totally as our comrades have been strategically positioned across the 36 states of the federation to combat stubborn outlets and destroy in totality their goods and properties.
“Thirdly: South Africans living in Nigeria must leave our country latest by Monday morning as we shall confront them with the trailer of Aluta if they refuse to leave by Monday morning.
“Now to Nigerians, we would not want this evil doers to tactically set us against ourselves and to avoid this, we appeal to you to as a matter of urgency, end your transactions with any South African firm in Nigeria such as; withdraw all your money at Stanbic IBTC and move your money to other peaceful banks in the country as adherence to this instruction will do a lot of good to our country and as well go a long way in saving the lives of our people in South Africa.
“The president of NANS, Comrade Danielson Bamidele AKPAN has summoned an Extra Ordinary NANS BOT/STAKEHOLDERS Emergency meeting for Friday, where the chain of the resultant actions on these xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa shall be drawn algorithmly. This is not a struggle of NANS alone; it is our collective struggle as Nigerians to stand against this for our brothers and sisters in South Africa.”
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I love this,why will govt allow this to get to this stage
ReplyDeleteThese are franchise stores owned by nigerians check the shareholders of mtn and stanbic bank they are all owned by Nigerians
ReplyDeleteThen the South Africans on the board should relinquish their shares and it becomes a Nigerian company like Etisalat. Something dire needs to be done! We’ve let this go on for so long
DeleteI am in full support of this! This is how things are done where I reside.
ReplyDeleteNigerians are very slow to react to oppression and suppression.
All south afriacan businesses should leave Nigeria 🇳🇬.
They have always feel more superior to Nigerians and I believe they don't need our monies.
#boycottsouthafrica #boycottSAproducts
I’m not boycotting anything. Come back to Nigeria and live here and boycott SA products.
DeleteYou busy encouraging people to risk their lives! Don’t you know they will get killed. Buy a plane ticket and come back and join them to protest so you see how things are done where we reside.
Really? So who will employ the thousands of Nigerians working in those places? Do we have an alternative to DSTV in Nigeria?
DeleteThere are other ways South Africa can be sanctioned without throwing more Nigerians into the labour market. Two wrongs can never make a right.
I am sure there are alternative options to such institutions in the country you reside and I don't think the government of that country will like to render its citizens jobless.
The same way hoodlums took over the protests in Nigeria and even attacked shops owned by Nigerians is the same way the looting in SA is committed by a fraction of their population.
People have pension in Stanbic IBTC, some cannot be accessed till a certain time. What are they supposed to do?
Delete@hlr resources, we had an alternative to DSTV but it was sabotaged by the same DSTV. It won’t kill us to build our own brand and support it. It will definitely be hard to adjust but we need it! Do you know how much DSTV makes annually?
DeleteThe mindset that people will be unemployed, they will die of hunger is the reason Nigeria 🇳🇬 will never be like the poorest country in Europe...
DeleteMost of these countries that we try so hard to imitate also pass through their most difficult mutation period, and it was men and women that fought the fight, a lot of men put their lives on the line just for their country to be counted as a country... Their names remain in the book of history and honour.
There's never going to be a revolution in Nigeria 🇳🇬... The country will remain the way it is, whether its Buhari that is leading the country or someone else's; because most Nigerians have the same mindset and that mindset is to take and take and not to sacrifice and build..
Y'all keep going to south Africa and keep supporting their businesses.... If they leave Nigeria, a Nigerian will take up the same business and they will succeed... Support Nigerian businesses and you'll see them packing their bags and baggage.
Anon 09:51 which alternatives? Is it the alternatives that can't even show better movies or have good channels that people will be drawn to? They should work on that first! You can't start a movement with no backup plan
DeleteWe all know Rome was not built in a day hence the reason why we have to start challenging our government with ultimatum and be serious about it. We need to have things being put in place, else, our economy will keep suffering,people will keep leaving and this sort of things will keep happening to Nigerians all over the world. Its not about boycotting the businesses of foreigners, our government needs to provide us with the basic amenities that will help in growing Nigerian businesses, first. If not, trust me, alot of people will be thrown into labour market. I have friends and family who are under the employment of DSTV and MTN. They attested to the fact that these employers used to appreciate them, financially, for everything extra they do BUT when our nigerians took over running of these establishments, they claimed to have scrapped it but it was found out that it was actually being diverted into their personal pockets. Pockets of a few. Now, tell me, is that right?
DeleteFirst off, they start killing off the business with so much greed and frivolities and not compensating the people who are actually the business and have been keeping it going. This is just a small fraction of what is made known, you dont know what other evils carried out by some nigerians because the business startup was not from their pocket and they dont care on maintaining and sustaining it. If we are not careful, scamming, rituals, prostitution et al will be on serious rise. Take a look at the number of bankers that have been out of work since 2008.
What has the government done about it? How has the government even respected and regarded its citizens? It's a shame that the current government takes the life a cow more serious to that of a human. Same government who has left handed Nigeria to BOKO HARAMS of this world and looked the other way while they rape, kill and maim rather than declaring them as terrosits. The current government claimed to have sent delegates to SA, please, who are the delegates? Can we have a list or see pictures? What has been the status report since Monday they departed? It's a shame that Air Peace and some other individuals have provided a plane to bring back those who are willing to come home. This is the government you are supporting to boycott SA. This same government has and is still making money off the foreign businesses that is why they turn their face the other way when citizens cry out against maltreatment from foreigners like the chinese or arabs or lebanese. Do you know how much your NASS makes from these foreigners daily? Did you read the write-up on the death of Econet? Have you read-up the true situation surrounding the death of Etisalat?
Our government needs a serious overhaul which will transcend down to the economy of the country and when the citizens start reaping from it, then, you and i can proudly stand and boycott every goddam business bnot Nigeria. What happened to GROWNIGERIA? Our government has been made to understand that its cheaper to import from asia and on a loan than to actually build and grow small businesses If something is not done now, this xenophobic attack will spread like wildfire across other countries because Nigerians have been in the news lately for more of wrong reasons than the right ones. God help us.
So DSTV sabotaged them abi? Who did they use? Who let them do it? Nigeria is Nigerians’ problem. Simple!
DeleteAnd the president and government is still mute about this whole thing????
ReplyDeleteYou want to attack a bank? You jokers will all be shot dead.
ReplyDeleteDo people think? Who will employ the thousands of Nigerians when you shut down these companies? The Government?
Even if you want these Companies to leave, the clever way to do it will be to Nationalise the assest of the companies and then sell them to Nigerians. But to what end?
These companies are not the problem. The government is. One would think these protests would have been done at the South African consulate, Aso Rock or National Assembly.
As for those looting and destroying properties, I suppose you all will be at church on Sunday praying and singing as usual? What a country!
These ones are just not serious, will this solve the problem? They've also forgotten that their brothers and sisters are also working in these places. Ok o.
ReplyDeleteThey should not come and start crying that they are graduates without jobs o. Government isn't going to provide the kind of jobs that they seek, they had better wake up from their foolishness.
my Sis that is exactly what i said up threr. Some if not most have relatives working with this establishments. The competitors that are owned by Nigerians what have they done? Them and their kids go about lagos firing any member of staff they see in places they deemed they shouldnt be.They reap off us in the name of providing data. Our Government is a failure on all levels and we all need to rise and start treating their fuckups. Stop paying tax make we see how them go de buy houses for girlfriends or live a lavish lifestyle.
DeleteI hope their brain will reset at this point in town.
ReplyDelete😤🤦 and this is coming from the president of "the nigerian students association" this country is doomed sha. Mr President how many of the properties is actually owned by the south African companies you mentioned? How many Percentage of this south Africans make up the employee's and stakeholders of their companies based in nigeria? How many of your citizens are working legitly there?
ReplyDeleteSince this whole thing Stella has not posted my comments. I am a South African married to a Nigerian. We have businesses in SA and Nigeria. I run the one in Nigeria while he runs the one in SA. I dont advocate killings and violence and stand for the truth but i have been asking...what jobs are Nigerians doing in SA that you are saying they are taking from South Africans.
DeleteDont mind him, he didnt do any research cuz if he did, he would be articulate and well informed.
DeleteOdiegwu!
ReplyDeleteI support this. Everyone using MTN sim cards too should discard it. Throw away your sim cards and switch network. I don't want to hear later that they didn't carry out this threat
ReplyDeleteTo GLO wey de struggle for breath of fresh air ba? Bettre have it at the back of your mind that YOUR NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT DOESNT GIVE A DAM ABOUT YOUR FINE ASS.
DeleteDAME*
DeleteSome people don't even know what is happening and they are busy destroying shoprite, I asked one tout.... Oga what is happening.. The guy said they killed Xenophobia an igbo guy in South African. am still looking for where to faint.. 😀
ReplyDeleteThis comment don kill me die.Hahahahahaha
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DeleteLOOOOOL.
DeleteWhy are people scared of mentioning Stanbic, una money de there abi? Bunch of myopic thinkers! Oga these franchises you mentioned are not your problem, your government is.
ReplyDeleteNot possible at all. We have so many Judases. So they should forget their threat. They can go on peaceful demonstrations
ReplyDeleteYou people should go and get yourselves shot. Franchises owned by Nigerians. Why don’t you go and bring our the Dstv decoders of your families and burn them first. Good starting point. You think the police care about you? Parents are busy doing all they can to get you an education and you want to go back home a corpse. Go on with your comrades. Stupid children.
ReplyDeleteI love this
ReplyDeleteSuch immaturity and foolishness! How are we now better than the South Africans that indulge in these acts? So we’d rather take the laws into our own hands? How about protesting in peacefully in front of the South African embassy and the National Assembly consistently and sustainably until something is done. How much have we protested against our own domestic issues that’re being perpetrated daily. Nigeria is a divided country and more people are getting killed in Nigeria by ethnic bigots, kidnappers, armed robbers and ritualists on a daily basis.. The black man truly has a problem
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DeleteThis situation has shown me that most Nigerian youths don't think. They have been on a rampage against shop rite & pep forgetting that thy are franchises owned by Nigerians with Nigerian employees, paying taxes to the Nigerian government! Do they know how many Nigerians that they have wrecked with their misguided thinking? Other businesses were looted simply because they share the same location with shop rite! I asked a friend who works in insurance and she told me some comprehensive insurance doesn't cover things like this depending on the company involved. Imagine seeing your life efforts looted and you end the day penniless and in debt.
ReplyDeleteSA people living and working here are not even affected so what are we talking about?
There are better ways to address this situation that it will hit their economy hard not taking food from the mouths of your people. Cancel whatever trade relation we have with them or give the existing ones heavy tariffs that will strangulate their profit base, withdraw the ambassador and close down the Nigerian embassy there and send airplanes to carry the rest of the citizens home. We won't even get to the stage of sending planes and see their brains reset with immediate alacrity.
Why are you retarded? ShopRite is owned by South Africans. Having a franchise means that you remit a large percentage of revenue to your parent company every month. In return they supply you with equipment and support. So SA companies are suffering as well. At least do your research before you decide to speak.
DeleteI am retarded? You can make your point without insults I hope you know.
DeleteAnd what happens to the percentage of the Nigerian man or woman whose only crime was in getting a franchise? It's all well and good if it goes down in flames right? Do you know the percentage of the locally produced goods that the shoes carry? Who covers his own loss? Those businesses are not solely owed by South Africans and that was the point I was making! In trying to hurt them, you also destroy your brothers livelihood! But your quickness to throw a shade won't allow you see clearly. So you go do your own research, connect your brains to your fingers as the case may be before you type.
Such a shame that a student president is reasoning like this, I wonder the thrash he would be feeding his followers on daily basis. If these companies are sent back to SA, Nigerians would be at the losing end, cos the rate of unemployment would drastically increase. Do they think it's South Africans that are working in those companies? You are trying to make peace by starting up another war.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteGo and attack those franchises and get shot...what now makes you different from a xenophobic nation?
ReplyDeleteHow does this help for God's sake? They just want to render more Nigerians jobless. Wouldn't it have been better if Nigerian students stage continuous peace protests all over the nation for as long as it takes till the govt does something?
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