A Nigerian man identified as Uchena Eloh has been reportedly killed in Western Cape Province by South African policemen, The Nigerian Union in the country said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Kanayo Onwumelu, chairman, Western Cape chapter of the union, told NAN<\/a> that Eloh was strangled by South African policemen.<\/p>\n Eloh is said to hail from Eziagu in Eziagu local government area of Enugu state.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to call the attention of the Nigerian government to the senseless killing of innocent Nigerians by the police in South Africa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAt about 11.00 a.m. South African time on Wednesday, a Nigerian, Uchenna Emmanuel Eloh, popularly known as \u2018Monkey\u2019, was killed by a South African police officer.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was walking out of his house towards the bus station when a police van stopped to search him, suspecting that he might be in possession of an illegal substance.<\/p>\n \u201cThree policemen accosted Eloh, one of them, by the name Williams, held him by the neck suspecting that he swallowed a substance, while another police officer held him by the legs.\u201d<\/p>\n The union official alleged that the policemen dragged Eloh on the ground until he started foaming and suffocated to death on the spot.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not the first time such a senseless killing of an innocent Nigerian has been carried out by South African police officers.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have reported similar killings to the South African government and Nigeria high commission in South Africa and nothing was done to bring the culprits to book.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want the Nigerian government to intervene to stop this brutality against innocent Nigerians and stop killing Nigerians out of hatred, racism or xenophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n Ikechukwu Anyene, president of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, who also confirmed the incident, called for an end to the incessant killings of Nigerians in South Africa.<\/p>\n \u201cOur government needs to do something urgently to make it clear that Nigerian lives matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have made suggestions on what can be done, but it is now clear to us that the endless talks cannot yield any positive result.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the union had engaged a lawyer to take up the case against South African police service.<\/p>\n \u201cBut this kind of legal service should form part of consular services to provide legal services to victimised Nigerians,\u201d Anyene said.<\/p>\n The union said the police have opened an inquest into the case.<\/p>\n A Nigerian man identified as Uchena Eloh has been reportedly killed in Western Cape Province by South African policemen, The Nigerian Union in the country said on Thursday. 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