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Every terrorist in Nigeria will be Subdued IJN

The only thing they dont khow is that what u sow u will reap

This is really good, like human like animal.......

This is just unbelievable, he is not ordinary

Some women are not just worthy to be called mothers. What a devilish idea.........

God will judge them all. Bloody racists

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author=jidewin]KANYI Dyantyi will not have the wedding she was looking
forward to after her Nigerian-born fiancé died while in police custody
in Cape Town earlier this month

Obinna Ugboaja's death has sparked the ire of the Nigerian community who
marched to parliament on Friday demanding an end to police brutality
against foreigners.

March organisers, the Nigerian Union in the Western Cape and Frontline
Africa, argued that Nigerians were being targeted for brutal treatment
by the police. They said in most cases brutality was swept under the
carpet because of the false assumption that all Nigerians were
criminals.

According to the Independent Complaints Directorate 2011/2012 annual
report, 932 people died in police custody or as a result of police
action.

The Nigerian Union wants the death of 32-year-old Ugboaja to be
investigated and has opened a case at Cape Town Central police station.
While police said they were investigating his death, grief- stricken
Dyantyi, who met Ugboaja five years ago, remains in the dark about what
led to his death.

"I really don't know exactly what happened. They took me to the mortuary
where I found my husband dead. His mouth and neck were full of blood
and he had marks on his neck, like he had been held hard.

"They said he had overdosed on cocaine. He didn't even smoke
cigarettes."

Dyantyi said Ugboaja - who was a computer technician at First Coast
Technologies and had been living in South Africa for seven years - left
their Brooklyn home on the night of January 6 to meet friends in town.

She started worrying when he didn't come home and his phone went
unanswered. After notifying his brother, Dyantyi took their one-year-old
daughter to the police station where his car was parked.

But she was sent away with no answers.

"I waited for almost two-and-a-half hours. My baby was screaming. I
didn't even know he was dead. They didn't tell me," she said.

When she returned the next morning, she was taken to the mortuary.

"Next year at Easter we were supposed to go to Nigeria to marry. His
family is waiting. I don't work and I don't even know how we are going
to pay to bury him," she said.

Independent Police Investigative Directorate spokesman Moses Dlamini
said the matter was being investigated.

"If someone dies in police custody then we investigate," he said.

Azubuike Okparaugo, president of the Nigerian Union in the Western Cape,
said it was irrelevant whether Ugboaja had been rightfully arrested or
not.

"We were not marching to protest his innocence or his guilt. If he is
guilty take him to court and give him a maximum sentence. Police are not
the court of law," Okparaugo said, adding that the police conduct in
Ugboaja's death should be investigated.

Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said an inquest docket has been
opened into Ugboaja's death and the directorate was investigating the
case.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/01/21/dream-wedding-plan-in-ruins-after-death-in-police-custody[/quote]