Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Suspect dies in police custody, corpse missing. Warri Human rights activist and lawyer, Mr. Ogehnejabor Ikimi, has called on the Assistant Inspector General, AIG, of police, Zone 5, Benin, Edo State, to order an independent and impartial inquest into an alleged exral-judicial killing of Mr Ejovi Edaferiemu, a mechanic, by police in Belta State and the disappearance of his corpse. Ikimi said police officers from "B" Division, Warri, on June 15, arrested Edaferiemu and Shuibu for allegedly abandoning a stolen vehicle near the former's workshop in warri and subjected them to inhuman treatment. He said his clients, Frank Okodu, Yakubu Shaibu and Yunusa Salifu, searched in vain for the suspects at "B" Division, warri, and various police stations in the oil city and environs until June 25, when one of them located Shaibu at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Asaba. He said: "One of our clients was granted access, on June 25, to see and speak with one of the suspects, who informed our said client that Mr. Ejovi Edaferiemu and himself were arrested at the same time by the men of "B" Division, Warri. "Shaibu revealed that Edaferiemu was tortured to death in his presence on June 18, by men of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Asaba, after both of them were transferred to Asaba. "He said, it was after the death of Edaferiemu that he was rushed to hospital for treatment by the said policemen at Asaba, after he collapsed from the tortures meted out on him

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