Nigeria Diaspora Forum Calls For Investigation of the Killing of Ebuka Nwoko In South Africa …

A super promising, proactive and citizen-concerned nongovernmental organization, the Nigeria Diaspora Forum, NDF has called for a thorough investigation of the unwarranted and unlawful killing of Ebuka Nwoko, a Nigerian living peacefully in Danielskuil, Northern Cape,
South Africa before his murder by South African Police on May 17, 2024.

The NDF made the call while reacting to the ugly development in a world press conference organized in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja weekend.

Leading the call to thoroughly investigate the murder of Ebuka Nwoko as well as address the serial and continued pains, dehumanization, discrimination and killing of Nigerians abroad, the Country Director,
Nigeria Diaspora Forum (NDF), Hon. Chike Amadichi said the recurring reports across the world
is so disheartening hence the fight for justice to put an end to the anomaly once and for all.

Hon. Chike Amadichi

“The NDF by this media briefing, we are calling upon the South African Ambassador to Nigeria to explain to Nigerians why these incidents keep occurring, and we are also calling for a prompt, transparent, and exhaustive investigation into this unlawful killing of Mr. Ebuka Nwoko by the South African Police”

Hon. Amadichi stressed that the frequency of attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa have reached acrescendo hence the demand from Nigeria Diaspora Forum (NDF) for Nigerian Government to call the South African Government and her Police Force to put an end to the incidents before they generate into a “hunt and kill” exercise.

“The NDF is also putting the South African Authorities on notice as we demand a holistic and far-reaching addressing of the problem of recurring tortures and unlawful killings of Nigerians living in South Africa. The South African authorities must redeem their image and reputation and exonerate themselves from the rising suspicions of complicity in these serial injustices by serving justice. Appropriate compensation as stipulated by the relevant International Charters and local laws should also be awarded to the deceased family”

The NDF Country Director further decried that “South African Police have persistently been accused by eyewitnesses of ill-treatment and unlawful killings which have sometimes been done in the full glare of the public with very little deterrent”, adding that the ill-treatment of Nigerians in South Africa has been seen as a norm to the extent that successive South African Governments does little or nothing to protect the lives and properties of Nigerans living in South Africa.

“We are the Nigerian Diaspora Forum, a Non-Governmental Organization founded by a group of Nigerians in the Diaspora with the primary aim of bettering the socio-economic lives of Nigerians in the Diaspora and in Nigeria.

“We are having this media briefing over the unlawful killing of late Mr. Ebuka Nwoko, a Nigerian aged 43, who was manhandled, brutalized, and killed in Danielskuil, Northern Cape, by the South African Police in the morning hours of May 17th, 2024.

“The Nigeria Diaspora Forum upon receiving the disheartening report on that fateful day from our team in South Africa, we swag into action as we did the first press release the next day in Nigeria, and on the 21st May 2024 we wrote a petition to the National Assembly address to the Honourable Speaker, Minister Foreign Affairs and the Chairman Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NiDCOM.

“We believe the core duty of the police across the world is the protection of lives and properties, but the incidences of unlawful torture and killings of Nigerians by the South African Police have sadly become a recurring event, as can be seen in the unlawful killings of Mr. Izuwa Nad, Mr. Pius Ezekwem and Uchenna Eloh and now the recent one Mr. Ebuka Nwoko”, Hon Amadichi emphasized.

Hon. Amadichi seized the opportunity to commend the Chairman House Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Sir, Tochukwu Okere who swiftly acted on NDF petition and moved a motion in the floor of the House Representatives to investigate the unlawful killing of Mr Ebuka Nwoko among others.

“We believe the Nigerian Government will leave no stone unturned until Justice is served on this matter”

Let me also use this opportunity to ask Nigerians all over the World to join NDF and feel free to express whatever challenges they face in Diaspora”