Celebrity fashion designer, Toyin Lawani, has called for the boycott of South African companies in response to the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.
The 37-year-old said this in a post on Instagram on Tuesday.
“This is South Africa, where human beings like us have decided to kill citizens of other countries and loot their properties. This is barbaric, this is wrong in every way but we know the Nigerian Government won’t do anything about it. The best thing is to boycott all SA companies in Nigeria. What do you think?” she wrote.
Celebrities, Olamide, Yemi Alade, Adesua Etomi, Funke Akindele, have also condemned the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.
President of the Nigeria Union South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, had said that recent attacks began on Sunday morning in Jeppestown area of Johannesburg.
Mr Olubajo said in a statement on Monday that the mob “looted several shops that were around the vicinity suspected to be owned by foreign nationals.”
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has vowed to take measures over the ‘mindless’ attack on Nigerians in South Africa.
In a tweet on Monday, Onyeama assured that ‘definitive measures’ would be taken to prevent future occurrences.
