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Anger over slow progress, size of rewards at Nigeria's police brutality hearings


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LAGOS (Reuters) - Ndukwe Ekekwe was furious when he heard how much compensation a judicial panel had awarded him after finding that members of an elite Nigerian police unit tortured him in custody following a raid on his phone accessories shop: 7,500,000 naira ($18,000).
Ndukwe Ekekwe, a victim of the Nigerian police brutality, uses crutches as he stands in his home in Lagos, Nigeria November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
The night after his arrest, he said, officers took him back to the store and pushed him from a second floor balcony, leaving him paralysed from the waist down and struggling to make ends meet. ....

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Judicial Panel awards N7.5m to Alaba trader thrown off 2-storey building by police officers in 2018


Judicial Panel awards N7.5m to Alaba trader thrown off 2-storey building by police officers in 2018
Judicial Panel awards N7.5m to Alaba trader thrown off 2-storey building by police officers in 2018
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The Lagos State Judicial Panel probing police brutality has awarded N7.5million to a trader, Ndukwe Ekekwe, whose spine was broken after being thrown off a two-storey building at Alaba International Market in Ojo Local Government Area (LGA) by police officers in 2018.
But an angry Ekekwe, 34, described the amount as too inadequate to compensate for his ordeal.
In his petition, Ndukwe told the panel that he was unlawfully arrested at the market on February 16, taken to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) head office at Ikeja, stripped naked and brutalised in a torture chamber. ....

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