
For a while now, i've been hearing of racist cases in Northern Ireland, but in a way, i didn't take it seriously until now.
The most recent of these attacks, was launched on a 34 year old Nigerian Michael Abiona.
You see, on Tuesday June the 17th, Micheal who resides in Belfast, the largest city in Northern Ireland, was greeted with posters reading "Local Houses 4 Local People"

outside a house he planned allocated to by a government housing executive, because he suffers a bone disease. He told the BBC about the incident, saying;
"I thought they were just out enjoying the sunshine and having fun but then I saw the banners at the front of the building. A woman told me the place should be meant for locals, she said there are a lot of local elderly and disabled people living in the area who have been on the housing waiting list for about nine years, so how come I got the house?
She said it wasn't personally about me, it was about housing.
She was even asking me if I am disabled and I said I am, but I was wondering why she was asking me this.
I went through the normal channels of getting the premises."
Abiona who has been living in Northern Ireland since 2010, believes he is being targeted because he is black.
"It is not about me being elderly or local – it is about intimidation and discrimination.
A housing officer told me they were trying to resolve it, but with what was written on the banner I don't think I will be able to move in there. The safety of my son comes first. His mother told me she would not allow him to come and visit me there. My son comes first, so I'm not going to go back to the premises."
Local authorities have removed the banners this morning and claim they are investigating it.
