🇿🇦S-African Police Torture Another 🇳🇬Nigerian to Death

The Nigeria Union in South Africa confirmed the killing of a member, Kingsley Ikeri, 27, a businessman and native of Mbaitolu in Imo, at Vryheid town in KwaZulu Natal Province on Aug. 30.

The Chairman of the union, Mr Bartholomew Eziagulu, said that Ikeri was allegedly tortured to death. He said the union’s investigations revealed that the police arrested Ikeri 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.

He said the union's investigations revealed that the police arrested the deceased and a friend on suspicion that they were carrying hard drugs. A total 116 Nigerians have been killed in South Africa through extrajudicial means in the last two years/

UCJ, UNILORIN.