Xenophobia: Air Peace to Evacuate Nigerians from South Africa
Reprieve has come for beleaguered Nigerians caught in the xenophobic attacks currently sweeping across South Africa as Nigeria’s leading aviation operator, Air Peace, has offered to airlift interested Nigerians back to the country.
The gesture was contained in a release from the ministry of Foreign Affairs. The release, signed by Ferdinand Nwonye, spokesperson of the ministry reads:
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to inform the general public that following the recent unfortunate xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals, including Nigerians in South Africa, the Proprietor of Air Peace Airlines Chief Allen Onyema, has volunteered to send an aircraft from Friday 6th September 2019 to evacuate Nigerians who wish to return to Nigeria free of charge.
The general public is hereby advised to inform their relatives in South Africa to take advantage of this laudable gesture. Interested Nigerians are therefore advised to liaise with the High Commission of Nigeria in Pretoria and the Consulate General of Nigeria in Johannesburg for further necessary arrangement”.
Sources at the airline’s head office at 25, disclosed to True Vision online, last night, that Air Peace executive chairman, Mr. Allen Onyema had approved the free airlift service as the airline’s contribution to efforts being made by the Federal Government aimed at ameliorating the plight of the affected Nigerians.