The South African authorities are frustrating the evacuation of Nigerians who have completed processes for the first batch of airlift from that country, according to TheNation.
The Air Peace aircraft which left Nigeria 11:30 pm Tuesday arrived OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg about 4:00 am.
However, sources at the Nigerian High Commission in Johannesburg told the newspaper that the Commission had prepared the first 320 Nigerians for the first evacuation, but, the South African Immigration officials started fomenting trouble by arresting Nigerians billed to be evacuated.
The source said that the officials are demanding relevant travel documents, even as they accused the Nigerians of travelling without valid papers.
The Nigerian High Commission had prepared travel documents for the Nigerians but Immigration wanted to know how the Nigerians came into the country and began to arrest them, the official disclosed. (TheNation)