The Nigerian Mission in South Africa has rejected the report of the country’s Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), handling the investigation of the death of a Nigerian, Ebuka Udugbo, in the police custody.
The Nigeria Consul in Johannesburg, Mr Godwin Adama, said this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Udugbo was arrested by the South African Police Service over a domestic quarrel between him and one Lilian, his South African girlfriend and died in the police custody on April 28.
The IPID, however, issued a statement that Udugbo committed suicide while in the police custody.
Adama expressed the mission’s worry over the report and the claim that the Nigerian committed suicide in its custody.
“The mission is disheartened with the reports of the death of a Nigerian, Ebuka Udugbo, in police custody in what appear to be yet another extra-judicial killing by the South African Police…
