Air Peace Chairman: "I Wept When I Saw Returnees Singing National Anthem"
Air Peace transported people for free back to the commercial capital Lagos on Wednesday
Joy Kalu 
Nigeria began repatriating more than 600 of its citizens from South Africa following the recent xenophobic attacks that frighten relations among neighbouring nations.
However, A Private Nigerian airline Air Peace has decided to fly people for free back to the commercial capital Lagos on Wednesday, September 11.
A flight carrying 189 Nigerians landed in the commercial capital Lagos late Wednesday, with some of those onboard punching the air and singing the national anthem while waving pictures of burnt shops.
Samson Aliyu, a clothes seller who lived in South Africa for two years reported that "I ran for my life, they would have killed me,"
"They burnt my shop, everything," he added.
A second flight departs on Thursday or Friday with 640 Nigerians in
Allen Onyeama, chairman of Air Peace, says he wept when Nigerians who were returning from South Africa mobbed him and sang the country’s anthem.
Onyeama revealed this while addressing the media shortly after 187 Nigerians returned from South Africa over xenophobic attacks.
The airline had offered free flights to those who sought to return.
“I put together over N280 million in other to bring these people back, Air Peace decided to bring them free of charge, nobody paid us a dime, we decided to do it free of charge for our country and for our people.”
“When I stepped inside the aircraft to welcome them, they mobbed me and started singing the Nigerian national anthem, there was nobody there singing about separation, they felt proud to be Nigerian, they rose in unison, that drew tears from me.”
