President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to evacuate Nigerians from
South Africa is a positive step in the right direction. Nigerians, indeed, Africans should leave South
Africa and not regret it, as a first step towards redressing the unceasing
bullying, intimidation, and arrogance of that country against fellow Africans
that joined forces to liberate her from the crushing white apartheid regime.
African nations should severe diplomatic relations with South Africa as a mark
of protest. This land of apartheid should be isolated and let’s watch how it
copes with being an island.
Good enough, an uncommon patriotic Nigerian,
Allen Onyema, owner of Air Peace, offered to voluntarily evacuate the troubled Nigerian citizens from South Africa. I must commend all those in the forefront of this
operation, namely: President Buhari, Air Peace Management, Nigerian High
Commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador Kabiru Bala, Chairman, Nigerians
in Diaspora Commission, Abike-Dabiri-Erewa, among others. The belated arrest,
delay and harassment of departing Nigerians on highways and airport in South
Africa, is of no consequence. It is akin to the pursuit of departing Israel
from Egyptian bondage by Pharaoh and his army, which ended in disaster.
