Speaker of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has described the xenophobic attacks in South Africa as a tale of shame and betrayal that has no root in African culture.
Ekweremadu who is also the Nigeria’s deputy senate president said “I received the news of the xenophobic attacks in the Republic of South Africa with rude shock and sadness.
“It is a tale of shame and betrayal that has no root in our ways of life as Africans and is certainly in dissonance with the 21st Century realities where globalisation, international treaties and charters on human rights and economic integration hold sway.
“The attacks are both barbaric and violate those things that hold us together as members of the African Union. They are a banal demonstration of ungratefulness for the collective sacrifices by the African people to end apartheid in South Africa.”
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