Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kinahan has unreservedly condemned the recent spate of racially motivated incidents of intimidation which have taken place in Belfast.
Mr Kinahan, who is a member of the Stormont All Party Group on Ethnic Minorities, was speaking after an incident in the Garnerville area of East Belfast in which a man originally from Nigeria was met with several protestors when he sought to gain entry to a house allocated to him by the Housing Executive.
Mr Kinahan said:
“It is completely unacceptable that anyone should be targeted because of their race, religion or nationality.
“The Ulster Unionist Party has been absolutely consistent in its stance that no-one should be subjected to physical or verbal abuse or have their home attacked, or live in fear of such attacks which are all to be condemned utterly and without reservation.”
“If there are concerns about social housing availability in an area then there are ways in which to raise these concerns. Preventing someone from moving into a home which they have been allocated is certainly not one of them.”