South Africa xenophobic attacks: NACOMYO cautions Nigerians against reprisals

REVENGE attacks against South African nationals and business interests in Nigeria are not a solution to the xenophobic attacks being perpetrated against Nigerians living in South Africa, the National Council of Muslim Youth Organisations (NACOMYO) has said.

The apex body of Muslim youth organisations in the country, in a release, in Abuja, signed by the national president and national secretary general, Malam Suleiman Sanni Maigoro and Alhaji Mas’ud Akintola, appealed to Nigerians to be calm and allow the government to deploy its diplomatic machinery to effectively deal with the situation.

“Two wrongs never make a right. If we continue to spread thorns because someone has spread prickles, the whole earth surface will be full of thorns,” NACOMYO noted.

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Also, the organisation appealed to state governments and chief executives of institutions to stop treating Muslims as second-class citizens, emphasising that “the country belongs to us all.”

NACOMYO applauded the strides recorded by Muslims in the field of academics in recent times, making particular reference to Rabiat Opeyemi Akande who, it said, won a prize at Harvard University over her Ph.D. dissertation.