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🇬🇭 Ghana envoy fires back at @EFFSouthAfrica's
MALEMA 🇿🇦 over South Africa evacuation
📍 Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa,
Benjamin Quashie, has defended his government’s decision to evacuate Ghanaian nationals from South Africa.
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He believes that authorities acted to protect citizens from violence, looting, and harassment targeting foreign nationals.
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Quashie said Ghana engaged South African authorities extensively before deciding to evacuate its citizens.
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He said Ghana urged law enforcement agencies to take firm action against individuals involved in attacks and looting but claimed the situation failed to improve.
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“I would want to disagree with Hon Julius Malema because we gave the government of South Africa the opportunity for us to resolve this issue,” Quashie said.
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According to the envoy, Ghana expected stronger enforcement measures to stop people from taking the law into their own hands.
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Quashie said repeated incidents across different provinces raised concerns about the effectiveness of interventions on the ground.
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“If you realise when these demonstrators started, the faces that were on our screens every day moving from shops to shops, from province to province, were the same people,” he said.
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He added that Ghana expected South African authorities to make arrests and stop the recurring attacks.
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“We were expecting the government of South Africa to show good faith, but they never arrested anybody. The demonstrators continued doing what they were doing, they continued looting, they continued harassing people,” Quashie stated.
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Quashie stressed that Ghana’s leadership prioritised the safety of its citizens when it decided to evacuate nationals from South Africa.
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He said many of those who returned to Accra appeared relieved and happy to be back home.
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“The decision was with the President of the Republic of Ghana as to what he has to do for his citizens, and I think that decision to evacuate citizens from here, you will see on the faces of those who arrived in Accra yesterday that these were people who were happy to be back home,” he said.
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Quashie maintained that Ghana made the correct decision under the circumstances.
“I believe to a large extent what we did was in the right direction,”
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