Xenophobic Ethiopian Police beat Nigerian woman to death, abandon lifeless body in detention, brutalise other foreigners. (Read More Here).
Nigerian woman, Chizoba Eze, has died after she was brutalized the Ethiopian police in her cell in Kaliti Prison where she was kept.
There have been reports that Eze died on March 12 after sustaining multiple injuries from brutality by the police personnel attached to the Kaliti prison, a maximum security facility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital.
It is unclear why she was reportedly beaten to death. She died infront of other inmates from as far as Brazil and Venezuela.
Currently there are 300 Nigerians in Ethiopian prisons.
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, NiDCOM chair, said the commission was in contact with the Nigerian mission in Ethiopia and that Eze’s death would be thoroughly investigated.
She commiserated with Eze’s family and assured them that the case would be looked into quickly.
Dabiri-Erewa expressed concern over the reported conditions of some Nigerians serving various jail terms in Ethiopia, noting that most of the cases were drug-related.
She said the Nigerian mission in the country had proposed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) from the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) on the transfer of sentenced persons to Nigeria but was yet to get a response from Ethiopia.
Dabiri-Erewa said although the Ethiopian government had granted amnesty to Nigerian prisoners in 2019, a number of them still found their way back to the country and allegedly committed the same drug-related crimes and were re-arrested.
It was gathered that her corpse was left inside the cell for over 36 hours by the prison management who allegedly prevented other inmates from informing the Nigerian embassy about the incident.
“A Nigerian woman, Chizoba Favor Eze has been brutalised to death at Kaliti Prison in Ethiopia. She died on the 12/3/2023. It’s so sad that the policemen killed our sister. They gave her internal injury on her chest after brutally hitting her on the breasts which led to her death.
“After a week, she started feeling sick because of the result of the internal injuries she had inside her body. They took her to the hospital for the first time to receive treatment and the doctor gave her injection and they brought her back to her room. The deceased started feeling weak again and they took her to the hospital on Saturday being 11/3/2023, then they brought the same injection which the deceased complained bitterly that the injection was not good on her body, she added that she didn’t want take any injection again, and they gave her the injection forcefully.
