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SAPS officers accused of murdering Nigerian man granted bail

SAPS officers accused of murdering Nigerian man granted bail.  Eight police officers who are accused of the torture and murder of a Nigerian citizen while investigating alleged drug trafficking in Vanderbijlpark last year appeared in the Vanderbijlpark Magistrate’s Court on Monday for a bail application.

SAPS Officers

The accused spent the past weekend in the holding cells in Vanderbijlpark after they were arrested by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate on Friday. Bail was set at R3,000 each, reports Parys Gazette.

The eight police officers spent the past weekend in the holding cells in Vanderbijlpark after they were arrested by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) on Friday.

The IPID alleges that the police officers forcefully interrogated the Nigerian national Ibrahim Badmus during their operations in Vanderbijlpark in October last year and in the process suffocated him, resulting in his death.

The case was postponed to a later date.

Source: The Citizen