Obasanjo blames South Africa govt for xenophobic attack

FORMER president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has blamed the South African government over the ongoing anti-immigrant attack in the country.

He said this on Wednesday while playing host to the leadership of the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Jos.

Obasanjo explained to the team led by Major General Laurence Onoja, that the South African government had betrayed the struggle for the emancipation of the country against apartheid.

He called on African heads of government to promote good governance for the overall development of the continent.

“Youths can be so immature; they may not understand what Africa stands for, what our continental organisations stand for. If the youths do not understand what happened to the elders?

“What happened to the leadership, I will blame the youths of the country for the attacks, but I will blame the leaders more in any country that allows xenophobic attacks against fellow Africans for whatever reason.

“Having said that, it is also the responsibility of everyone of us in our different countries to  prepare our countries, so that our youths that think that there is an Eldorado somewhere outside their countries will be made to know that there is no green pasture anywhere, the green pasture is here in your country.

“I feel disheartened to know that many of our youths perished while crossing the Sahara Desert or the Mediterranean,” he said