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