Speaking with NAN on telephone from Pretoria, South Africa, Adeoye said some of the cars belonged to South Africans, while others were being repaired for sale.
He explained that on the day of the incident, he got a call that his workshop had been set ablaze, and he rushed to the place to see what was left of the place.
“By the time I got there, 29 cars of different make, some Nigerian passports, documents of the workshop, money and other personal effects had been destroyed by fire,” he said.
“I was helpless and could not do anything… I appeal to the federal government to assist me get back to business. Officials of the Nigerian mission have visited the workshop to do an assessment and we are yet to hear from them.
“At the moment, I have lost everything I have. I need urgent help to re-start my business. This will also assist me pay my workers who have families to carter for.”
He appealed to the mission to provide replacement for the passports gutted by fire to enable affected Nigerians have documents.
Meanwhile, Mathapelo Peters, spokeswoman of South African, said at least 20 shops possibly belonging to immigrants, were looted in the country’s capital overnight.
Peters said the motive for the latest attacks were unknown, and no deaths had been reported.
“There are allegations that these shops belong to foreign nationals,” she said.
“It is alleged that the community members are saying that these shops were used for drug dealing but that is unconfirmed.
“We will only be able to start a formal investigation once the shop owners come forward.”
The Atteridgeville neighbourhood, where the looting took place, was calm on Tuesday as police cars drove through the streets.
An unemployed man in his mid-twenties, who declined to be named, said: “we are sick and tired of foreigners who are coming to sell drugs and kill our people, we can’t let the community go down like this.”
South Africa, with a population of about 50 million, is home to an estimated 5 million immigrants.
In 2008, at least 67 people were killed in anti-immigrant violence, with thousands of people fleeing to refugee camps.
When you are going there who did you tell and why are you asking us to help you? Abeg come back home we need you.
ReplyDeleteWhen you are going there who did you tell and why are you asking us to help you? Abeg come back home we need you.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to give him work if he comes back home instead of you to say sorry u are here saying come back home. Our leaders should see what is happening to their citizens all over the world killing and destroying Nigerians citizens and no one cares, because of bad government all our able men flee away all over the world. The so called white people are racist on Nigerians even the black ooh what a shame to Nigeria leaders and no one cares that is why Nigerians all over in the world are been treated like animals because no one cares. God help us
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