Nigerians in Johannesburg, South Africa on Tuesday staged a 90-minute protest march across the city to protest the killing of one of them and to demand better treatment from the police.

Theophilus Anoliefo, a real estate agent, was allegedly killed by South African police on July 31 in questionable circumstances.

A large number of Nigerians carrying placards and singing protest songs, marched through the streets, escorted by South African Police and traffic officers, as they aired their grievances.

The protesters marched from Rossetinville Road to Booysons Police station, a distance of about 12km, where they submitted a protest letter to the authorities.

The widow of the deceased, Cynthia Anoliefo, and her mother participated in the protest march,

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Hhmm Sad day

What a humiliation, is a pity

It's very unfair but since our own police kill us and go free I don't see why we should not be treated shabbily in other countries. How you are dressed is how you are addressed.

The black South Africans has forgotten the efforts nigerians put during their suffering in the hands of the white ones. The policeman who shot my friend Theophilus Anoliefo for just no reason was a silly black policeman. Almighty God will never forgive that policeman with his family. I pray the almighty God to give the family of Theophilus the mind to bear this great loss.