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<\/p>\nThe NICASA president said this in a letter to the Consul-General, Nigerian Consulate Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n
A copy of the letter was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja.<\/p>\n
Okoli said that the association was tired of sending Nigerians back home in body bags due to premeditated and organised crimes against them in South Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cTragedy has struck the Nigerian community again, just after 4p.m. on Friday, May 3. Mr Okechukwu Henry was stabbed to death by unknown local South African robbers.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe late Henry, a car dealer who specialised in used cars, lived in Middleburg Mpumalanga Province.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarlier before his death, some two local guys had indicated interest to buy his car \u2013 a white VW polo.<\/p>\n
\u201dThey had negotiated the price and agreed to buy; late Henry had produced all necessary documents to seal the deal when suddenly the local buyers said they wanted to test-drive the car first before paying,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to him, Henry obliged them but insisted he would drive along with them.<\/p>\n
\u201dAs they drove out, he suddenly realised that they were robbers as they demanded for the key of the car.<\/p>\n
\u201dThey attacked him and stabbed him several times, they took the keys but could not manage to drive away the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir action attracted the attention of people around and they ran away with the keys without the car,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to him, Henry was rushed to hospital, but it appeared he had died at the scene.<\/p>\n
He said that a case of robbery and murder had been opened by the NICASA Provincial chairman in Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n
\u201dYour Excellency, the attack on Nigerians has reached an alarming level and demands something urgent to be done to stem this ugly tide.<\/p>\n
\u201dOur nationals are under attack in South Africa. We are under attack from every angle\u201d.<\/p>\n
He called on the Nigerian mission to urgently intervene.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe no longer feel safe, we have become like a trophy hunted by all.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Nigerian Citizens Association, South Africa, is disheartened by the frequent repatriation of the remains of our dear citizens,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President of Nigerian Citizens Association South Africa (NICASA), Ben Okoli, says a Nigerian, Mr Okechukwu Henry, from Imo State, has been stabbed to death by unknown South African robbers. The NICASA president said this in a letter to the Consul-General, Nigerian Consulate Johannesburg, South Africa. A copy of the letter was obtained by the News […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113839,"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":[],"class_list":["post-113838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113838","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=113838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}