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Uche Okoye 44 disappeared in police custody in June 2005. His family was told that he was
“transferred to Abuja”. “He is not in Abuja. They killed him. When they say they have
transferred to Abuja, it means they have killed you,” Uche Okoye’s brother said to Amnesty
International. When the brother went to the police to find Uche Okoye’s whereabouts, he was
arrested. During his four months in State CID custody, he saw several people being taken out
of their cells: “Often at midnight or at 5 am, whoever they would call, you won’t see him
again… They once took six people from my cell and they never came back.” He believes that
these people were killed by the police.