A Nigerian woman, Emilia Godwin, has recounted the traumatic killing of her husband in South Africa and vowed never to return to the country.
Godwin, who was among the Nigerians repatriated from South Africa amid rising xenophobic attacks, spoke to journalists upon her arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
“I am now in my country and I have my mouth to speak,” she said. “They [South Africans] are wicked; they don’t like us. If you enter a taxi, they mock you, pull you, and beat you.”
Godwin described the dehumanising treatment Nigerians face in South Africa, saying foreigners — particularly Nigerians — are often regarded as slaves with no voice.
“We were just like slaves there. We didn’t have a mouth to talk,” she added. “I will never go back to South Africa. Even my child, who was born there, will never return.”
She expressed gratitude to
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