The Nigeria Union in South Africa
has confirmed the killing of a member, Kingsley Ikeri, at Vryheid town in
Kwazulu Natal Province on Aug. 30.
Ikeri, 27, was a businessman and
native of Mbaitolu in Imo.
In December 2016, Metropolitan
Police in Cape Town had suffocated to death a man, Victor Nnadi, also from Imo.
Mr Bartholomew Eziagulu, Chairman
of the union in the province, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Durban
on Friday that Ikeri was allegedly tortured to death by the police.
He said the union’s
investigations revealed that the police arrested the deceased and a friend on
suspicion that they were carrying hard drugs.
He said while interrogating him,
the police used plastic to cover his face to extort information from him.
“ In the process, they suffocated
the deceased suffocated. When the police took him to the hospital, he was
confirmed dead,” he said.
Mr Adetola Olubajo, the Secretary
General of the union, said the national secretariat had been informed about the
death of the Nigerian.
He said the body had informed
appropriate Nigerian authorities and the police in South Africa.
NAN reports that a senior
diplomat from the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg had visited Vryheid on a
fact-finding mission.
Some members of the union and
other Nigerians accompanied the diplomat to the town.
A total 116 Nigerians have been
killed in South Africa through extrajudicial means in the last two years,
according to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs
and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa.
Seven in 10 of the killings were
carried out by the South African Police.
The presidential aide disclosed
this sometime in February when she met with the South African High Commissioner
to Nigeria, Lulu Louis Mnguni in Abuja.
NAN
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Nigerians should try and break down what they meant calling someone " a businessman",the word has too loose a meaning.Most people who are into illegal dealings and 419ers are called businessmen in that country.Evans the kidnap Baron called himself a businessman also
ReplyDeleteBrain-dead vomits! At least try to use common sense for once! Prejudiced in every thought! Inferiority extraordinary!
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