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LONDON • In 2004, Mr Steve Dunstone and Mr Timothy Awoyemi stood on a boat on the bank of the River Niger.
The two middle-aged men, both police officers in Britain, were taking part in a journey through Nigeria, organised through the Police Expedition Society, and had reached the small town of Agenebode, in the country's south.
