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THE Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has described the latest extra judicial killing of a Nigerian in South Africa as “worrying and condemnable”. Dabiri-Erewa said in a statement in Abuja on Monday that the killing of Tochukwu Nnadi by police in South Africa, was unacceptable to the people and government of Nigeria.
The statement was signed by her media aide, Abdur-Rahman Balogun. She reiterated President Muhammadu Buhari’s calls to Nigerians to avoid crimes like drug peddling which attracts stiff penalties, sometimes death.
The presidential aide noted that the killing of Mr. Nnadi had brought to 20 Nigerians killed in South Africa through extrajudicial means in 2016 alone. “The barbaric behaviour of the perpetrators is not only unacceptable, but also calls for urgent attention by diplomatic authorities in Nigeria and South Africa,” she said.
Dabiri-Erewa urged the South African Government to ensure that justice prevails by carrying out investigation and bring the culprit to book. She reiterated her calls to Nigerians living abroad to always respect the laws of their host countries and be good ambassadors of Nigeria.
She recalled that a Nigerian based in South Africa, Tochukwu Nnadi, was allegedly choked to death by the police in South Africa on Thursday Dec. 29, 2016, after he was arrested for allegedly selling drugs.
According to witnesses, the man, popularly known as King Kingsley, was not struggling after he was arrested and handcuffed, but one of the officers held onto his neck and squeezed tightly until blood started gushing out. “My heart goes out to the families of the deceased and pray God to grant the departed soul eternal rest,” the SSA prayed.
Meanwhile, the secretary of the Nigeria Union in Pretoria, Adetola Olubajo, told journalists in Pretoria that “Nigeria Union is calling on the Nigerian Mission to demand results of investigations of all murder cases involving Nigerian victims from the South African authority’’.
Olubajo said the union was not happy that all murder cases involving Nigerians in South Africa were never resolved. Some of the victims were Ikejiaku Chinedu, Monday Okorie, Gideon Ogalaonye, Nnamdi Michael, Adeniyi Olumoko, Christian Onwukaike and Tochukwu Nnadi. – (NAN)
— Jan 3, 2017 @ 13:50 GMT
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