{"id":23735,"date":"2020-01-09T22:44:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23735"},"modified":"2020-01-09T22:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:44:38","slug":"nigerians-others-get-red-card-to-leave-south-african-communities-in-12-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23735","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians, others get red card to leave South African communities in 12 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerians and other foreign nationals resident South Africa\u2019s Keimoes and Upington areas of Northern Cape Province were on Thursday morning given 12 hours to vacate by the indigenes.<br \/>\nThe President of Nigeria Union in South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, made the disclosure in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos.<br \/>\nMr Olubajo said the development was as a result of an ugly incident that took place on Wednesday between a police officer and a Nigerian.<br \/>\nHe said that the Nigerian man, an indigene of Abakaliki in Ebonyi State, allegedly stabbed to death the police officer, Nico Visagie, during a disagreement at 5 a.m.<br \/>\nMr Olubajo said the details of the disagreement were still not very clear as the major witness was also stabbed multiple times and was still in critical condition at the hospital.<br \/>\n\u201cAfter the horrific incident, the community members of Keimoes and environs went on rampage burning and destroying properties belonging to foreign nationals, Nigerians in particular.<br \/>\n\u201cThese attacks spread to Upington and Nigerians and other foreign nationals were also expelled from Upington.<br \/>\n\u201cPrompt Police intervention this morning brought about calm but the situation is still tensed. Some locals were arrested by the police for public disturbance and malicious damage to properties.<br \/>\n\u201cThey appeared in a magistrates\u2019 court this morning for bail hearing,\u2019\u2019 he said.<br \/>\nHe added that the suspect who stabbed the police officer had been arrested and would appear in court on or before next Monday.<br \/>\n\u201cWe commend the swift intervention of the members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the arrest of the suspect is a welcome development.<br \/>\n\u201cWe hope the police will continue to maintain law and order in the area,\u2019\u2019 Mr Olubajo said.<br \/>\nKeimoes is a town in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It lies on the Orange River and is about halfway between Upington and Kakamas.<br \/>\nReport by <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerians and other foreign nationals resident South Africa\u2019s Keimoes and Upington areas of Northern Cape Province were on Thursday morning given 12 hours to vacate by the indigenes. The President of Nigeria Union in South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, made the disclosure in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[720,721,316],"class_list":["post-23735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-12-hours","tag-nigerians","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}