25-year-old Ibrahim
Olalekan Badmus has been allegedly killed by a South African policeman. The
deceased is a native of Lagos state. His death was announced a week after
Jelili Omoyele, a 35 year old cellular phone technician was shot dead in the
country 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. 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. 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. NAIJ.com 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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