Anger over slow progress, size of rewards at Nigeria’s police brutality hearings
ALEXIS AKWAGYIRAM NDUKWE Ekekwe was furious when he heard how much compensation a judicial panel had awarded him after finding that members of an elite Nigerian police unit tortured him in custody following a raid on his phone accessories shop: 7,500,000 naira ($18,000). The night after his arrest, he said, officers took him back to the store and pushed him from a second floor balcony, leaving him paralysed from the waist down and struggling to make ends meet. "I sold my land, all my property, my goods!" he shouted. During the hearings, the officer who led the operation disputed Ekekwe's…