The Nigerian mission in South Africa has
confirmed the killing of a 25-year-old Nigerian, Ibrahim Olalekan Badmus, a
native of Lagos state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the
killing occurred less than a week after Mr Jelili Omoyele, a 35 year-old
cellular phone technician was shot dead at Doornfontein, near Johannesburg. Mr
Godwin Adama, Nigeria`s Consul General (CG) in South Africa, told the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the telephone from Johannesburg that Badmus was
allegedly killed on Tuesday at Vaal Vreneging, near Johannesburg.
Information at our disposal said that the
deceased was killed by a South African police officer. “ I led a delegation
from the mission to visit the scene on receipt of the information. When we
arrived the scene, the place was tensed up because Nigerians there were not
happy,” he said. AD Adama said that the mission intervened and calmed down the
situation. “ We immediately met with the station commander in the area with
some selected Nigerians. The police assured that a thorough investigation would
be carried out. “The investigation will be done by the independent police
investigating department,” he said. According to the CG, an autopsy will be
carried out while investigation on the killing is on. Adama said that the
mission urged Nigerians in the area to be calm and law abiding.
MeanwhileWe had reported that the Nigerian
Union in South Africa on Thursday August 17 said that another Nigerian, Uchenna
Eloh, was killed in the Western Cape Province of that country.
We gathered that Kanayo Onwumelu, chairman,
Western Cape chapter of the union, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on
telephone from Cape Town that Eloh was strangled to death by South African
policemen
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