Nigeria: South Africa Police Brutality
On Nigerian Man A 'Horror', Says Nigeria Foreign Ministry
13
March 2014
Nigeria condemns South African police over brutal attack on citizen
(file photo).
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described the
South African police brutality on a Nigerian which was caught on camera as “a
horror and particularly disturbing’’.
This is contained in a statement signed and
issued on Thursday by the ministry’s spokesman, MrOgbole Ode.
It stated that the Nigeria High Commission in
Pretoria was investigating the circumstances of the attack on Mr Clement
Emekeneh.
It said that the mission sent a strong-worded
note to the Department of Foreign Affairs of South Africa protesting the brutal
attack, and demanded that perpetrators be brought to justice.
The statement also confirmed that the two South
African police officers involved in the merciless beating had been arrested,
suspended and being prosecuted.
“The Nigeria High Commission in Pretoria will
continue to monitor the case with keen interest until justice is achieved for
the victim of this brutality,’’ the ministry’s spokesman said in the statement.
The ministry reassured Nigerians that the Federal
Government would not condone maltreatment of Nigerian citizens anywhere.
It appealed to Nigerians living in The Diaspora
to be law abiding and be good ambassadors.
NAN reports that the footage of the Nigerian man
being brutally attacked by uniformed police in South Africa was posted on
social media.
The incident prompted strong condemnation on
South Africa’s attitudes towards immigrants given it’s records on xenophobic
attacks. (NAN)
