The Failure Of Diplomatic Protection: How Nigeria Keeps Burying Its Citizens While South Africa Keeps Getting Away With It -By Daniel Nduka Okonkwo

South Africa, for its part, cannot demand respect for its sovereignty while failing to enforce its own laws in defence of foreign nationals lawfully within its borders. Its officials owe Nigerians and the wider region a public accounting of arrests, prosecutions, and convictions rather than repeated statements of condemnation. South Africa has said it opposes xenophobia and has committed to pursuing those responsible for attacks, but the credibility of those assurances will ultimately be measured by what happens in individual cases.