5000+ Jobs Lost Following Xenophobic Reprisal Attacks On SA Business’ In Nigeria – Lagos Governor

Riyaz Patel

More than 5,000 people are currently out of jobs following attacks on South African-owned business in Nigeria, the governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said.

The attacks were in response to the violence meted out to foreigners in parts of South Africa last week.

He said some of the protesters had broken into outlets owned by South Africans, including Shoprite.

Lagos’ governor visited some of the affected outlets in Ajah and Surulere areas of the state, and decried the consequences of the reprisal action, The Naija Digest reported.

“These are jobs where Nigerians are the ones that have been affected. So, we need to be able to take the lessons out of this, be stronger together and be able to take corrective measures to ensure that things like these should certainly not repeat itself in our community,” Sanwo-Olu said.

“We have seen the amount of enormous destruction in both