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Nigerian Policemen Beat Delta Resident To Death, Extort N150,000 From Him Before His Demise


SaharaReporters learnt that the victim, Okediachi Emeka, lost his life after being hit with a gun by the police personnel.

Some lawless operatives of the Nigerian police have tortured a man to death with their rifle in Asaba, the Delta State capital.

SaharaReporters learnt that the victim, Okediachi Emeka, lost his life after being hit with a gun by the police personnel.

The family of the deceased told SaharaReporters on on Saturday that the incident happened at the Ogbe-Osowe quarters in Asaba.

His brother, Okediachi Desmond, narated the incident to SaharaReporters.

“The Nigerian police hit his head with a gun, they killed my brother” he lamented.

“On the 14th of November at about 12am to 1am, they were coming from Chronicles hotel, very close to Slot. They saw men who were not wearing uniform who stopped them but they didn’t stop because they thought they were kidnappers.

"My brother, his friend and his girlfriend who were in the car ran to a spot where the police cornered them. They started shooting sporadically and started beating them. My brother’s girlfriend ran into her own house because where they ran to was close to her house.”

“People who wanted to help them could not because of the sporadic shooting and because the police used wood on them. So no one could help them.

“I didn’t know what happened till the next morning. I saw him with a bandaged head and when I asked him what happened, he told me that he was hit in the head with a gun by police officers. The officers after doing this took him to hospital and got his head bandaged. They took his phone too..

“They came back in the morning and asked him to do a video that he hit his head on the wall while running from the police and that’s how he injured himself. They also collected N150,000 from him."

“When I heard, I was angry and followed him to the police headquarters in Asaba. When we got there he showed me the person that hit him on the head and during the melee, they took him upstairs and I stayed downstairs.

"The police said we should be thankful that at least he was not killled and instead we should take him to hospital for treatment.

“When we took him to hospital at some point, he wouldn’t talk well and we were told that he damaged his jaw when the police officers were beating him. At some point he complained of back pain and we tried treating him.

“My mum called me after some days and said he was jerking, we took him to one hospital and they rejected him, it was at the second hospital that they pronounced him dead.”

He stated that the claims that his brother hit his head on the wall was false.

“I have pictures to show that he was hit in the head and he didn’t hit his head on the wall”.

When ed, the Delta State Police Spokesperson, Bright Edafe denied that Emeka was hit with a gun, stating that he hit his head on the wall.

“On the 14th of November 2024 at about 0100 hours, the command received a distress call from a concerned citizen that there were some suspicious-looking persons around DBS road.”

“Operatives of the command were detailed to move to the scene, and the operatives who were at that time along Nnebisi Road proceeded to the scene. On their way, they sighted a Venza SUV with reg. No GWK-646-FF but the occupants of the vehicle on noticing there were policemen zoomed off.

“The operatives who were already acting on a distress call suspected the Venza Vehicle hence they went after them. They chased them to a compound along Nnebisi axis. The engers alighted and were running in a bid to escape from the police.

“The driver was arrested immediately while the deceased initially escaped. A few minutes later right there at the scene, the suspect came out with blood on his head and stated that he hit his head on a wall. The police swiftly took him to the hospital and paid for his medical bill. At about 0500 hours of the same date, the deceased was brought to the Police headquarters where statements were recorded and the deceased stated in his statement that he hit his head on a wall fence while running away from the police."

He however noted that the Commissioner of Police in the state had ordered investigation into circumstances surrounding the incident:

“The Commissioner of Police has however ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police State Criminal Investigation department to take over the case and ensure that a thorough investigation is carried out.”

“The while condoling the family of the deceased assures them that no stone will be left unturned and that if the operatives are found culpable, they will be made to face the law.”

There have been concerns over police brutality and extra-judicial activities which on a number of occasions have led to loss of lives.

https://saharareporters.com/2024/11/30/lawless-nigerian-policemen-beat-delta-resident-death-extort-n150000-him-his-demise#google_vignette

Pathetic

Nnamdipapa:
State policing is the answer.

I disagree with you….

It’s actually better for everyone to own a licensed gun than state police…

You will only end up creating more monsters on the streets

Nigeria police is never your friend… Either State or Federal

Abi I lie

Tinubu will do Nigeria a greater help of he decides to reform the police force.....


Infact anything about the police is now scary and I try as much as possible to avoid the police.

Abeg, avoid police at all cause..... Don't challenge them, don't argue with them, don't make them your friends. Avoid everything about them.


That police uniform is an encouraging means to murder.

If u had stopped.highest 3k popo go collect. No be Sars na

State policing is the answer.

If he hit his head on the wall, did he also hit his swollen face on the wall ?

Those swollen face had received severe beating from the useless police officers...

The Policemen are lying...

They should be made to face the full weight of the Law.

I was at the Police Station years ago writing statement of what happened and the useless policewoman was telling me to write something that was contrary to the events that took place.


She was insisting that I should lie in my statement.

That is the useless Format of the Nigerian Police.

Nigerian Police is Never your Friend

Some of these guys are just criminals in uniform

...and the policemen are still alive?

I have always preferred to stand and explain myself out of difficult situations rather than run and still be apprehended.

Most of these criminals police are southern, you will never hear a northern police man killed a northern because of money. All the southern in uniform are the worst people in Nigeria uniform work. R.I.P to the death

Was there really a need to run? Was it needed?

Only in zoo called Nigeria where lives of Nigerians are worth nothing

Sincerity is lacking in this part of the world.

SaLongs1:
I have always preferred to stand and explain myself out of difficult situations rather than run and still be apprehended.

Simple.

The police could be acting on an information and will assume that it may the bad guys trying to escape.

They started shooting sporadically and started beating them. My brother’s girlfriend ran into her own house because where they ran to was close to her house.”

Nigerian women summarised.

I'm 100% sure their movement that night was because of that girl. Yet, she disembarked when yawa burst.

A wise woman supposed to be shouting and alert her neighbours to come help her beloved boyfriend.


May God rest his soul.

chai.

Anyway, Agriculture is life

JASONjnr:
Tinubu will do Nigeria a greater help of he decides to reform the police force.....


Infact anything about the police is now scary and I try as much as possible to avoid the police.

Abeg, avoid police at all cause..... Don't challenge them, don't argue with them, don't make them your friends. Avoid everything about them.


That police uniform is an encouraging means to murder.

Police burst me and my friend for him house, that we where internet fraudsters, that they have been looking for us, me wey ne de run street, my friend begin shout, why did u Bash into my house and trying to harass us, he was shouting, me just keep quiet make them no carry me learn, me just dae calculate who I go call to rescue us, those ppl heart dae dia back, u do too much, you collect

2cribz:
If u had stopped.highest 3k popo go collect. No be Sars na

You didn’t read where they wrote no uniform just polo Abi? He thought they were kidnappers

SaLongs1:
I have always preferred to stand and explain myself out of difficult situations rather than run and still be apprehended.

Stand and explain when u don't even know who you are explaining to.. aren't the police supposed to be on uniform at all times??

TimiofAbuja:
Some of these guys are just criminals in uniform

Some ke?? 70% nahim be some??

Karemarealty288:


https://saharareporters.com/2024/11/30/lawless-nigerian-policemen-beat-delta-resident-death-extort-n150000-him-his-demise#google_vignette

This headline is somehow, at first I thought it was after beating the victim to death that they still extorted money from the corpse...sad..RIP

Denko2721987:


Stand and explain when u don't even know who you are explaining to.. aren't the police supposed to be on uniform at all times??

Run and still die.

The story is not complete

How did the police collect the 150k ?
Cash or transfer ?

What about statement from the driver that was arrested.?

Fear Nigerian police because they are the real criminals

2cribz:
If u had stopped.highest 3k popo go collect. No be Sars na

read again, they thought d policemen were kidnappers bcus they were not in uniform

If you believe "Police is your friend." You can believe anything

Endeavor to get dashcam in your car. Free advice

Karemarealty288:


https://saharareporters.com/2024/11/30/lawless-nigerian-policemen-beat-delta-resident-death-extort-n150000-him-his-demise#google_vignette

n who beat who? who KPAI?

dfrost:
Was there really a need to run? Was it needed?

Have you ever been approached or blocked by scary-looking men in mufti carrying guns before? Then you can't tell if they are policemen or kidnappers... What would you do if you have few seconds to save yourself? Naija is gone abeg

2cribz:
If u had stopped.highest 3k popo go collect. No be Sars na

Did you read the story at all?

dfrost:
Was there really a need to run? Was it needed?

Did you read the story?

mytime24:
read again, they thought d policemen were kidnappers bcus they were not in uniform

Na lie, they say say na police. we no say Nigeria police are very bad but sometimes the citizens too get thier own for body, some of them always misbehave.