Protesters in Delta state to attack South African companies

Delta State Government and the state Police
Command, yesterday, aborted moves by members of
 the National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, Zone
 B, to attack Shoprite and other companies with South 
Africani nterest in the South-South and South-East regions.

The aborted attacks by the students body was in retaliation
 of the killings of Nigerians and other blacks in South Africa.

But the state government and Police authorities which got wind of the planned attack by the students, led by the zonal
coordinator, Pedro Obi, intervened and appealed to them to
shelve the picketing of firms with South African interest in 
the two geo-political zones.

Speaking to newsmen after the aborted protest, Obi said
 the students succumbed because of the regard they have 
for the state government and Police authorities, adding that Shoprite and other companies with South African interest 
also have “Nigerian interests and we are not ready to put 
more Nigerians into further hardship.”

Condemning the xenophobic attacks, Obi frowned at the
nonchalant attitude of the South African government to the
killings of Nigerians in that country.

He urged President Jacob Zuma to stop playing politics with
the lives of innocent Nigerians and frowned at the “snail pace
of the Nigerian government in handling the xenophobic
attacks.”

It will be recalled that the national leadership of NANS had
 last month mobilized students against businesses with 
South African interests in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, in the wake of the killings of Nigerians in South Africa.