Abuja authorities have denounced it as a barbaric and extra-judicial killing.

The incident involves Nigerian Victor Tochukwu Nnadi, who was allegedly choked as he lay handcuffed on a main street last Thursday.

South African police say Nadi resisted arrest after being suspected of dealing drugs.

The police say he died after swallowing heroin he was trying to sell.

Witnesses took pictures of the incident that show a body lying on the ground with a swollen face and blood coming from his mouth.

South African police say they are carrying out further investigations.

The Nigerian Union in South Africa, which represents

800 000 Nigerians living in South Africa, maintains there’s been no examination to confirm Nnadi died of heroin consumption.

Senior aide to President Muhammadu Buhari on foreign affairs and the Nigerian diaspora Abike Dabiri-Erewa says the barbaric behaviour of the perpetrators is not only unacceptable, but also calls for urgent attention by diplomatic authorities in Nigeria and South Africa.

She says the extra judicial killing of Nigerians is unacceptable.

NUSA spokesman Emeka Ezinteje Collins says South African authorities  tend to believe that Nigerian lives don’t matter.

In its latest report, an independent watchdog said 640 people had died from police brutality or in police custody in South Africa.

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Recent seizures along the Kenyan and Tanzanian coastlines show a southern route is beginning to rival that Balkan route through Iran and southeast Europe.

Africa’s sporadically identified since 2002 as an origin for heroin reaching Europe.

For the past three years, however, the United Nations has tagged East Africa as a prominent spot.

The world organisation says Afghanistan grows four fifths of the world’s illicit opium products.

Opium production’s increased 17 percent these past two years.

It’s feared a record Afghani opium harvest will flood global heroin markets this year.

Increased drug trafficking could destabilise the already volatile region. Western officials say they fear a repeat of what happened in Guinea-Bissau, which became Africa’s first narco state.

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