Sorrowful mother recounts how police beat son to death in custody

A troubled mother tearfully recounts how her son was tortured to death while he was locked up in Nigerian police custody.

In a video circulating online, the grieving mother is seen crying profusely as she shares her ordeal on the online program ‘Berekete Family,’ eliciting strong emotions from social media users.

Her son, Erasmus, was reportedly detained along with several other young men in connection with a murder investigation.

The mother insists he was wrongfully accused and arrested. According to her, she brought food for Erasmus only to be told by a policewoman that he was too tired to receive visitors.

However, she later learned from one of her son’s fellow detainees that Erasmus had been brutally beaten to death by police officers overnight.

The mother recounted her heartbreaking experience, revealing that she was forcibly removed from the station after she began to cry loudly over her son’s murder.

The widow stated that the officers bluntly told her that her late son was no different from the other innocent individuals they had killed at the station.

She revealed that the Inspector General of Police was non-chalant about her emotional outpour and was threatened by another police officer.

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