Science for Human Rights
Godgift Ferguson Ekerete
Godgift Ferguson Ekerete (aged 24), Tony Oruama (aged 21), Harry Ataria (aged 26) and one other man (aged 20) were brought to Mile 1 police station in Port Harcourt on 3 July 2008. All four were dead by the end of the day. According to the police, the four men were “armed robbers and cultists”, although their families believe that they were innocent. The father of one of the men told Amnesty International that he had heard gunshots at the police station. The mother of one of the men said: “A boy ran to me and said ‘they have killed your son, they killed him.’ It was at the back of the police station, I saw four corpses.” The police authorities never investigated the deaths and the families have not received an official account of the events that led to the deaths of the four men. Their bodies have been in the mortuary for more than a year.
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Godgift Ferguson Ekerete
Godgift Ferguson Ekerete (aged 24), Tony Oruama (aged 21), Harry Ataria (aged 26) and one other man (aged 20) were brought to Mile 1 police station in Port Harcourt on 3 July 2008. All four were dead by the end of the day. According to the police, the four men were “armed robbers and cultists”, although their families believe that they were innocent. The father of one of the men told Amnesty International that he had heard gunshots at the police station. The mother of one of the men said: “A boy ran to me and said ‘they have killed your son, they killed him.’ It was at the back of the police station, I saw four corpses.” The police authorities never investigated the deaths and the families have not received an official account of the events that led to the deaths of the four men. Their bodies have been in the mortuary for more than a year.
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Location on map is approximate.