The federal government has criticised Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, South Africa’s minister in the presidency, over her call for Nigeria to disclose the locations of alleged drug dens linked to Nigerians in the former apartheid country.
Ntshavheni made those comments in a press conference on Friday while rebuffing the possibilities of compensating Nigerians whose properties were left behind following their evacuation in the wake of anti-migrant tensions.
The minister said South Africa would rather focus on ridding the country of the “drug dens” left by Nigerians.
“We’ll be interested to know where the drug dens of Nigerians are. So they can show us where they have been holding the drugs so that we can clean the drugs in South Africa quite urgently,” Ntshavheni said.
“Squatter camps and informal settlements are never properties because they are illegal in the country. So you are already violating our law if
