Pandemonium broke out yesterday April 30th in Ijoko Ota in Ado-Odo-Ota
LGA of Ogun State around 9amwhen a mob set 3 suspected kidnappers ablaze
after their victim, one Elizerbeth Oduwole screamed for help.
Reports
say the lady’s scream attracted passersby who got hold of the
kidnappers, beat them to a pulp before setting them ablaze. The vehicle
they rode in was also set ablaze by the angry mob.
Confirming the
incident, the Police PRO in the state, Muyiwa Adejobi said the victim,
26year old Elizabeth who resides in Atan-Ota had boarded a vehicle to
Ewekoro but found herself in Gas Line in Ijoko were she immediately
screamed for help. Continue…
“She screamed from the vehicle in which
she was being taken to their den when she observed that she was in
another place and the people in the area blocked the vehicle, beat the
occupants, killed them and burnt them to ashes. The victim is being
interrogated; the suspects were burnt to ashes. We are going to use
multifaceted approach; we want to know if there had been an interaction
between the suspects and the victim. The jungle justice affected our
case. The people alerted us at the Headquarters instead of calling the
DPO in Ota, and immediately we asked the DPO to move to the scene, but,
before they got there, the suspects had been killed and burnt to ashes.
It was a heavy inferno; they put tyres on the suspects and set them
ablaze. We have evacuated their ashes. We have taken over the matter; we
are still investigating the matter. We condemn jungle justice, people
should desist from this act”, the PPRO, said.
Meanwhile
on Tuesday April 29th in Abeokuta, men of the state’s Nigerian Security
and Civil Defence Corps rescued a middle aged woman named Favor Okoye
from being lynched by an angry mob for allegedly kidnapping a baby at
about 2.55pm along Toroto street in Abeokuta.
In a statement
released by the Public Relations Officer of the NSCDC in the state,
Olanrewaju Kareem, they were able to rescue the woman after a taxi
driver alerted his men of a woman who had been beaten to a pulp and was
in the pool of her blood
According to him, “a taxi driver alerted
civil defence men keeping vigil on critical infrastructures around
Akin-olugbade/Pepsi/honeypotro areas that a woman has been attacked
around honeypotro and was about to be killed. The men quickly raced to
the scene to rescue the woman but, all efforts and appeal by civil
defence to allow the suspected kidnapper face the consequence through
the legal process proved abortive as the mob insisted on killing the
woman.
“Because of this development, the civil defence officer called
office for reinforcement as a result of which armed men were deployed
to the scene.
“In spite of the fact that those civil defence men on
ground were able to take possession of the suspect and took her towards
Akin-olugbade area in order to get a vehicle to convey her to a safe
place, they were still followed and were all along resisting that the
woman should not be taken away.
“The situation became more violent
when the armed men of civil defence arrived. They threw available
objects including bottles, planks, stones among others, the mob though
succeeded in breaking the windscreen of civil defence vehicle but they
were able to rescue the woman from being killed.
“The woman who was
in a state of coma as she could not talk was immediately rushed to the
Federal Medical Centre where she is receiving treatment. She gained
consciousness after one hour after the first set of treatment had been
administered on her.
“We therefore appeal to members of the public to
always ensure justice through legal means as jungle justice will make
innocent people to suffer”, he said.
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