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Fifteen-year-old Emmanuel Egbo was extrajudicially executed by a police officer in Enugu in
September 2008. According to eyewitnesses, he was playing with other children in front of his
uncle’s house when a police officer stopped to chat to the children. Two other police officers
joined him; one of them pulled out his gun and shot the boy, claiming he was an armed
robber. Eyewitnesses confirmed that Emmanuel Egbo was unarmed.