POLICE Minister Fikile Mbalula yesterday visited the house where Nigerians allegedly attacked six cops recently.
Mbalula claimed the cops were on duty and found a body in the house in Vanderbijlpark, in the Vaal.
“A group of Nigerians attacked the police,” he claimed.
“The people on the premises were undermining the law and police reacted sharply.”
The minister was accompanied by acting national commissioner Lieutenant-General Lesetja Mothiba and Gauteng commissioner Major-General Deliwe de Lange.
Daily Sun reported the death of Ibrahim Badmus (25), whom witnesses and family members claim cops suffocated on the premises with a plastic bag during a raid.
When angry relatives arrived, they took his lifeless body and put him in the cop van, demanding that cops eat him or bury him.
Mbalula said cases have been opened against the attackers, who are on the run. “One of the cops almost lost his ear.”
He said in a raid yesterday 76 people were bust.
Mbalula said the people involved in the assault are wanted by the cops and are believed to have fled to Kempton Park and Joburg.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Consulate said they are waiting for the autopsy results. “We do not wish to challenge anyone, as it is under investigation. Badmus will be buried after the autopsy.”
