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<\/p>\nNICASA President, Benjamin Okoli, gave the condemnation in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n
According to Okoli, two Nigerians were shot dead while two others sustained injuries from gunshots by unidentified assailants in the country on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
NAN reports that the Wednesday killings brought to five, the number of Nigerians killed this month in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Three Nigerians were reportedly killed between April 6 and April 9 at different locations in the country.<\/p>\n
Okoli said the association had sought the intervention of the Nigerian Mission in South Africa to strategise and bring to an end, the unwarranted bloodletting among Nigerians in the country<\/p>\n
According to him, three Nigerians were shot at Sands Hotel Area of Berea, Johannesburg and two died instantly while one is in a critical situation in hospital.<\/p>\n
He said that another Nigerian was shot in Pretoria but he survived with an injury on the leg.<\/p>\n
\u201cInformation reaching us indicated that there was a meeting of some groups of Nigerians in a restaurant at Sands Hotel Area of Berea on Wednesday at about 11:00 am<\/p>\n
\u201cShortly after the meeting as the people started coming out from the restaurant, a gun fire erupted and two Nigerians were shot dead,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
According to him, one of those killed hailed from Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra while the other was a native of Arondizuogu in Imo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe third victim is in a critical state and is currently receiving treatment at a hospital. We cannot confirm the name of the third victim but he is a Nigerian.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso in Sunnyside Pretoria on Wednesday, another Nigerian was shot on the leg in crime hot spot in the area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The president of the association lamented that such killings had become common among Nigerians in South Africa, saying other Nigerians in the country were worried about it.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cwe appeal to the mission and consulate to strategise with the aim of bringing to an end, the unwarranted bloodletting among Nigerians. It is bringing shame and opprobrium.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe remote and immediate causes cannot be established at this time.<\/p>\n
According to him, the killings in Johannesburg may not be unconnected with \u201cthe Ozubulu crisis\u201d while that of Sunnyside Pretoria was cult related.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Nigerian Citizens Association South Africa (NICASA) has condemned the Wednesday killing of two Nigerians in South Africa by yet-to-be-identified assailants. NICASA President, Benjamin Okoli, gave the condemnation in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja. According to Okoli, two Nigerians were shot dead while two others […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[243,354,11524],"class_list":["post-106277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa","tag-xenophobic-attack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}