BIG TROUBLE!! Ekweremadu Slams S’Africa, Says Attacks disrespect African brotherhoood

 

The Speaker of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on Thursday, condemned the xenophobic attacks in South Africa, describing the violence as barbaric and un-African.
Ekweremadu is also the Nigeria’s deputy senate president.
He described the attacks as criminal disrespect for African brotherhood.
He 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.”
Ekweremadu, therefore, called on the Government of South Africa to take concrete steps to end what he termed “man’s inhumanity to fellow man”.
He said, “Those involved in this criminality must be fished out and punished accordingly to deter others and to demonstrate in practical terms that Africa cannot afford to dismantle one form of apartheid only to replace it with yet another brand of the same or worse evil”
He condoled with those directly affected by the incident, noting that the losses were a collective loss to the continent in particular and humanity in general.