General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye, has called on Nigerians to protect South Africans and their businesses in the face of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians resident in South Africa.
Adeboye said this on Friday night at the September edition of the monthly Holy Ghost Service held at the Redemption Camp along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
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“I beg you in the name of God, don’t retaliate against South Africa,” he began.
Since news of the attacks on Nigerians broke, businesses with South African origin in Nigeria have faced reprisal attacks in Lagos, Ibadan, Abuja and a few other cities.
Adeboye recalled his frightening experience as a student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) at the onset of the civil war in 1967 when non-easterners were seized in the Eastern region as students of the University of Ibadan were also seized in the Western Region.
The preacher urged Nigerians against reprisal attacks for the sake of their countrymen who are still in South Africa.
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He said: “Be careful. Don’t retaliate against South Africa, because of the Nigerians who are still in South Africa.
“So, for the sake of your own kit and kin, don’t retaliate against South Africa. Let us leave this job to the governments, let them solve this problem at the governmental level. Pray for them, that God will give them the wisdom, the understanding, the ability to do it.”
