An MTN office Thursday morning has been attacked by a group of angry crowd, leaving behind several employees injured. The incident took place at one of the South Africa's telecom's giant offices in Abuja.
South Africans last Saturday in Pretoria West, attacked Nigerians, raiding their homes and killing dozens in gory pictures widely circulated on social media sites.
According to eye witness account in Abuja, after the angry protesters broke the glasses, the MTN employees started running for shelter. Some of them also went inside the washroom, while some locked themselves up in the secure vault area of the office.
The security guards who tried to stop the crowd were badly injured.
In a report by Per Second News on Tuesday, South Africans threatened that the attack on Nigerians will continue, according to Charles Ngakula of Pretoria West, “We are tired of the crime in our area. These Nigerians must take their drugs back to Lagos".
A Nigeria asylum seeker in South Africa, Segun Oluwa, said: “At 8am, people stormed into our house and shouted: ‘All foreigners must leave!’”
The men looted the house and set it on fire.Michael Olakunle, another Nigerian immigrant and a resident in the same house, said: “We didn’t do anything wrong. We don’t deserve what is happening to us. South Africans must watch out. There are also South Africans in Nigeria and we will do the same to them there.”
Oluwa and his housemates said the police witnessed what was happening, but didn’t do anything about it.
Meanwhile, South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba is on Thursday expected to brief the media in Parliament on the recent outbreaks of xenophobic violence in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
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