Amnesty International Nigeria has stated that police atrocities continue in Nigeria despite official claims of reforms following the EndSARS protests. The organisation listed five cases of people it says were extrajudicially executed or fatally tortured by police officers in the period from late 2022 onwards.
Bolanle Raheem was pregnant when a police officer shot and killed her on Christmas Day, 25 December 2022, at the Ajah underbridge checkpoint in Lagos. Onyeka Ibe was shot dead by a police officer in Delta State in April 2023 after he refused to pay a bribe of one hundred naira. In August 2023, Abdullahi Abba Tukur, a 17 year old senior secondary school student, was tortured by security personnel in Yola, Adamawa State, over the alleged theft of a smartphone. Kabiru Ibrahim, a young man from Soro village in Bauchi State, died after severe beating and repeated torture by police officers who accused him of stealing sachets of noodles. Ahmed Ibrahim, a 20 year old businessman, was killed by a policeman at Zamare area in Yauri Local Government Area of Kebbi State after he refused to give a bribe. The organisation described this most recent incident as further evidence of rampant police impunity.
The cases span Lagos, Delta, Adamawa, Bauchi and Kebbi states. Amnesty International Nigeria noted that the killings and fatal torture occurred more than two years after the EndSARS protests of 2020, a period in which authorities had repeatedly promised comprehensive police reform. The organisation presented the incidents as proof that such claims have not stopped extrajudicial killings, extortion and abuse by officers across the country.
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