Five South African Police Beat Nigerian To Death

According to an online source the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court heard on Thursday in south Africa concerning the report of five Limpopo Police officers that beat a Nigerian man to death “I put it to you that you beat him, he fainted and you resuscitated him. He woke up and…you beat him again,” prosecutor Jacky Mabasa told the officers during cross-examination. “You also sprinkled water on him.” Onyechiabi Iwuaka was beaten to death by five South African police on May 21 while he was visiting a friend. His friend escaped the assault. Iwuaka died on the way to the Polokwane police station. The five police , Boitumelo Ramahlala, Mashiba Mathata, Collins Sekoati, Thabo Mabotja and Clement Tsotsane, face murder and assault charges. are accused of beaten They were applying for bail. According to what the court was told, the officers stopped on the way to the police station to buy water, as Iwuaka was bleeding from his ears. Mabasa said an ambulance was called for Iwuaka after he died “The reason you cannot tell me specifically what you did that day is because you assaulted him. That’s why you cannot tell what you did,” Mabasa said. The court was told Iwuaka was merely in his friend’s home, and was the wrong person to be arrested. The five evaded questions, and said they never accused or hurt anyone. This prompted magistrate Janine Ungerer to question if they shared the same holding cell. She suspected they had coached each other on how to respond to questions. The bail application was postponed to Monday.