TWO NIGERIANS SHOT DEAD FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

JAKARTA (JP): Police personnel shot dead on Tuesday night two Nigerians over
alleged drug trafficking.

Their bodies were brought to the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital morgue
on the same night.

Deputy chief of the Central Jakarta Police Precinct Asst. Supt. Iza Fadri
said the police had long suspected the two as drug traffickers.

"We observed them for a month, and when we received information that they
would have a drug transaction here, we sent police officers to arrest them,"
he told reporters.

"But they were shot in the process," he said.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the two corpses had been examined by the
hospital's forensic doctors. However, up until Wednesday evening, no
relatives or friends of the two Nigerians had come forward to take care of
the bodies.

The two men were shot dead on Tuesday night by police personnel in front of
OC African Food on Jl. Warung Buntu in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta.

The two Nigerians were identified as Chizoe Joebie, 34, and Bao, 30. Chizoe
was shot in the head, while his companion Bao was shot in the stomach.

From the two, the police seized evidence namely low-grade heroin "putaw" and
shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine), totaling 30 grams in weight.

Others

The police also detained other people in the location, believed to be
Africans, identified as Hilbert Vermound, Richard, Benjamin, Saiko,
Alexander Manze, Onya, Jumna, Motopaus and Dresson. It was not known whether
they were all Nigerians or Africans of different nationalities.

Tanah Abang is a home for Africans, who are mostly garment traders. The
police have caught several times and even shot dead Africans, implicated
indrug cases.