South African minister of Foreign Affairs, Naledi Pandor, has called on the Nigerian government to keep drug peddlers, human traffickers and others with criminal tendencies from coming into her country.
She said this in an interview with South African TV station, eNCA.
According to her, South Africa needed the help of the Federal Government of Nigeria to curb crimes in their country, as they believe that Nigerians were into drug peddling, human trafficking and other vices that hurt their nation.
Her words: “Help us address the belief and the reality that our people have that there are many persons from Nigeria, who are dealing in drugs in our country, who are harming our young people by making drugs easily available to them.
“The belief that Nigerian nationals are involved in human trafficking and other abusive practices. This kind of assistance in ensuring that such people don’t come to our country would be of great assistance to our nation.”
Nigerians and other foreign nationals have been the target of xenophobic attacks in South Africa, since last week after a taxi driver was killed by an alleged drug dealer in Pretoria.
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