South African Returnees Seek Imo Govt’s Assistance

– Imo government has been asked for  assistance by those returned from South Africa to the state 

– Not less than 100 Imo indigenes recently came back from South Africa to their state over xenophobic attacks 

– According to them, they lost all their hard-earned properties and lost their lives in the attacks

About 100 Imo indigenes who returned from South Africa as a result of the xenophobic violence that swept through the country, have appealed to Imo State Government for assistance and rehabilitation.

The returnees made the call when they stormed Maria Assumpta Cathedral, Owerri, to plead with the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Dr Anthony J. V. Obinna, to intercede on their behalf.

Speaking on behalf of his colleagues, Mr Iheanyi Chukwu, narrated how they were traumatised, humiliated, distressed and transformed to paupers by their tragic experiences in South Africa.

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The returnees told Archbishop Obinna said: “What we went through in South Africa is better imagined than experienced.

“We lost all our hard-earned properties. Some lost their lives and properties.

“We are very thankful to God for our safe return to Nigeria, but we have been pauperized.”

While recalling how an official of the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg told them to reach their various state governments for assistance and rehabilitation, Chukwu, however, explained that they preferred reaching the government through the Archbishop.

Continuing, the group’s spokesman told the cleric that their counterparts from Lagos and Abia states have started receiving what he called “the much needed assistance from their home governments”.

“We do not know of any other person that can reach the government faster than our revered Achibishop Obinna. We are confident that you will help us reach the Governor.”

Speaking after praying for them, Obinna thanked God for sparing their lives.

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Obinna said: “I am not the State Governor, neither appointee of the Governor nor my office part of the Government House.

“I must commend the Igbo philanthropist and Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Barrister Allen Onyema, who provided the free aircraft that brought the returnee back to Nigeria.”

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