The Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa , NICASA has condemned the death of a forty-year-old Nigerian citizen, Benjamin Okoli, in police custody.
According to reports, Okoli’s death comes less than a month after NICASA condemned the alleged killing of another Nigerian, fifty-year-old Jeremiah Okoye, who died in police custody on January, Thirteen.
NICASA President-General, Frank Onyekwelu, described the curious deaths of Nigerians in South Africa as unbearable.
Okoli, from Akpu in Orumba South, Anambra, is survived by his wife and child.
Onyekwelu said Okoli was stopped, searched by police officers, and taken to his house with his brother for further inspection.
He stressed that in spite of finding nothing, the officers tortured, beat, and brutalised them.
Okoli could not withstand the assault and fell into a coma and later died.
He noted that investigations into Okoye’s death were still ongoing when Okoli died in similar circumstances, allegedly at the hands of the same police unit.
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