Another Nigerian eliminated in South Africa

The Nigeria Union South Africa(NUSA), on Thursday, announced the death of another Nigerian, Nicholas John in South Africa, following a vicious attack on immigrants by gangsters in

the former apartheid enclave. The President of NUSA, Mr.Collins Mgbo, revealed the killing of John in a statement to NAN on Thursday. John, an indigene of Ogun State was supposedly assaulted by a mob at his store in Kimberly in South Africa’s Northern Cape on Feb. 12.

South Africa has continued to see the death of numerous young Nigerians, who immigrated to that nation to discover their day-to-day bread.

According to NAN, offered records show that at least 128 Nigerians have been eliminated in the former Rainbow Nation considering that 2019.

On Dec. 12, 2021, one Olusola Solarin, lost his life after some hooligans attacked him and collected his money.

Mgbo disclosed that John’s South African spouse had actually put to bed just 3 months earlier.

On the situations that resulted in Nicholas’ death on Tuesday, the NUSA president said that on Feb. 11, he was assaulted by a South African gang for presumably purchasing a taken laptop.

He was beaten alongside his good friends who they thought was an accomplice, while the South African criminal who took the laptop computer and sold to Nicholas, was left unharmed.

The NUSA president stated that John had fought for survival at the Intensive Care Unit in Kimberley Hospital where he later passed away.

Mgbo discussed that John had actually purchased a stolen laptop from a South African which the owner of the stolen laptop computer collared the South African, who took the laptop computer which he took them to the Nigerian who purchased the taken laptop computer.

“The Nigerian, who bought the laptop had actually obviously sold it to another Nigerian.

“They asked him to call the Nigerian he offered it to and he did, but when he arrived, he informed them that he didn’t have the laptop any longer however accepted pay them for it.

“The owner of the laptop computer agreed but the owner featured a group which wanted to rob John of his phones but he resisted and that’s when they beat him to a comatose state and left him to die.” According to Mgbo, other Nigerians at the scene called an ambulance and took John to the health center but they were notified by the medical physician at the medical facility that his brain had been harmed.