A 25-year old Nigerian has been killed during a police raid in
Vaal near Johannesburg, South Africa.
Ibrahim
Badmus was killed on Tuesday, barely one week after 35-year-old Jelili Omoyele
was shot dead in Johannesburg over an alleged 300 Rand (about N7,500) parking
lot debt.
According
to eyewitnesses, the victim was allegedly handcuffed, tortured and suffocated
while being questioned by about three policemen at his home.
One of the
witnesses, a flat-mate of the deceased and a Congolese, Steve Lumbwe, said, “I
found Omo (the deceased), my tenant on handcuff. There was a plastic where they
put paper spray on him.”
“I asked
the police ‘why are you doing this to him’? They said he’s a drug dealer, he
must take out the drug and I was like ‘no, he doesn’t sell drugs’.
“My tenant
was on handcuff and he started calling ‘Steve, I can’t breathe’. I started
fighting with them and tried to help the guy but the other one (police officer)
took me out as well.
“So when I
went back inside, Omo was sleeping, looking at them and the police officers
were like ‘he just fainted’ that they would call the ambulance,” Lumbwe added.
The
Nigerian Consul General Godwin Adama and the Police Commander of the local
police station Brigadier Nikiwe Hoeane were at the scene, calling for calm
while investigations were ongoing, Channels Tv reports.
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