Ikorodu, Lagos State, is fast gaining a notoriety for jungle justice as in the past few weeks, no fewer than five suspects have been handed the fiery jungle justice by residents instead of handing them over to the police.
The
latest in the series was an alleged suspected female kidnapper who was
beaten to a pulp and burnt to death by an irate mob after she was caught
while attempting to abduct two children.
Eyewitnesses
report that the victim was caught while she was about to kidnap some
school children along Etunrenren road in Ojubode area of Ikorodu in the
afternoon of Tuesday, July 4, 2017, and as it has become the norm in
recent times, an angry crowd promptly meted out jungle justice on her.
A resident who narrated the incident to Pulse,
said the woman was apprehended when two traders at Allinson Junction
close to the United High School in the area raised an alarm after the
woman who said she was 40-years-old, was seen acting as someone who is
mentally deranged.
"A man selling
meat and an Aboki (Hausa man) selling fruits at Allinson Junction saw
the woman who was behaving like a mad woman going to a corner to receive
a phone call and when they approached her and asked her what she was
doing, she could not tell them what she was doing in the area.
The
man and the Aboki raised an alarm which brought a crowd to the place.
The woman was apprehended and handed over to the local vigilante office.
When
she was interrogated by the Deputy Chairman of the vigilante group, she
could still not say what she was doing there. A search was conducted on
her and an iPhone 7, a juju ring, and a list containing a description
of children like the age range, prices, and height, were found in her
bag.
When the people started
beating her, the woman now confessed that she came from Isolo area to
kidnap children and that she didn't come alone.
She
said that the man who had come with her had fled when people started
questioning her. The vigilante people said they would hand her over to
the police and put a call to the officers but before the arrival of the
police, the mob had beaten her to a pulp before she was burnt to death.
Initially,
when they set fire on her, the fire did not consume her because of the
juju ring with her but someone later brought a native egg and broke it
on her before the fire could get her."
This
is not the first time suspects have been burnt to death in Ikorodu in
the past few weeks and the recurring decimal is becoming worrisome.
Just on Sunday, July 2, 2017, a fast-rising comedian and Master of Ceremony, Chinedu Paul also known as MC Think Twice, and two of his friends were burnt to death on suspicion that they were members of the deadly Badoo Ritual cult gang.
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