[NPF BRUTALITY] PHOTO: Nigeria Police tortured our 23-year-old son 'Stanley Etim' to death – Etim Family

The late Etim

THE family of 23-year-old Stanley Etim has alleged that their son was tortured to death while in police custody at the headquarters of the Cross River State Police Command in Calabar on February 5, 2015. It was gathered that the police had attributed Etim’s death to stomach ulcer, his aunt, Mrs. Arit Nyong, who is a chief superintendent at the Medical Unit of the Cross River State Command of the Nigerian Prisons Service in Calabar, insisted the report by the police was not true.

Etim worked as a.....

shop attendant at Sparks Supermarket, along Eta-Agbor Road in Calabar, until he was allegedly killed by policemen attached to ‘D5’ of the Cross River State Criminal Investigation Department on February 5, 2015 after accusing him of armed robbery. The D5 unit is headed by Bassey Edim.

When contacted for clarification on what caused the death of Etim, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Hogan Bassey, said the police was still investigating the matter.

However, Nyong, who spoke on behalf of the family, said Etim had a brawl with his girlfriend, identified as Chichi, who was also having an affair with a policeman attached to the state CID.

Nyong said the relationship between her nephew and Chichi went sour as a result of a missing N35,000 which Etim suspected was taken by his girlfriend, alleging that Chichi connived with her police boyfriend, identified as Uche, to carry out the crime.

Medical certificate, issued by authorities of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital on what led to the death of Etim, confirmed that he sustained injuries.

The report, dated April 22, 2015, and signed by pathologist, Dr. Irabor Isi, and Dr. Omoruyi Kenneth of the Department of Histopathology as witness, said Etim died of “extensive blunt head and limb (lower/upper) injuries,” and not of stomach ulcer as stated by the police.

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