The Nigerian community in South Africa has expressed shock over the killing of another Nigerian, Mr Martin Ebuzoeme by unknown assailant in that country.
The President of Nigerian Union in South Africa, Mr Adetola Olubola, confirmed to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday, that the victim was killed in Yeoville, Johannesburg around 7:30pm on July 12.
The killing came barely 24 hours after the visit of South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, to Nigeria.
”The killings are caused by high level of unemployment among the youth as well as other social factors emanating from long apartheid misrule.
”Government is however, doing all best possible to bring it down,” Ramaphosa had said.
The Nigeria Consul General in Johannesburg, Mr Godwin Adama, said that latest killing did not have anything to do with xenophobic attacks.
Adama told the NAN on phone from Johannesburg that the killing happened in a crime invested area of the country.
”The man was killed by unknown gunmen and has nothing to do with xenophobic.
“The place is a crime prone area and those kind of assassinations happened often in that area.
”There is no investigation that showed that it was xenophobic.
”Within a year here, we have about 16,000 murders which do not necessarily have anything to do with any national of a particular country,” he said.
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