Chikaobi's Father is a top Senior Manager at the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He can afford to buy any type of telephone handset or laptop for any of his four sons. But this morning when Onyema Biringa , who is based in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State in South-South Nigeria, woke up, it was to prepare for the burial of his first son, Chiadikobi, who was lynched on Friday October 5th by a mob for allegedly stealing handsets and laptops.
The bereaved father, who alongside his family members are still reeling from shock. He is seeking divine intervention over the cruel fate that has befallen his beloved son. "I have handed over the murderers to God," he told a relative last night.
News Express reports that Chiadikobi and three other students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) believed to be his friends were forcibly seized by a mob at Allu, an off campus suburb where they lived, paraded naked, mercilessly beaten to death despite passionate pleas, had their necks bedecked with used tyres preparatory to being set ablaze.
He has been taken to his hometown, Umungwa, Obowo, in neighbouring Imo State, for burial today.
Source News Express
UPDATE:
The commissioner for information Ibim Semenitari says the traditional ruler of Aluu community have been arrested. According to reports, he ordered the killing of the boys. The order for arrest was given by the state governor Chibuike Ameachi.Twleve other suspects have been arrested in connection to the murder.
More updates coming soon .
Mr IGP must make sure all those who took part in killing those young men are arrested and dealt with according to the law. What a terrible animalistic act.
ReplyDeleteThe worst part was the slow beating & the fact that 3 of the 4 boys were burnt alive. I do not know them but I have been crying for 2days now.
ReplyDeleteOh GOD,fight for these boys,may their death not be in vain.I feel for their parents,these boys begged for their lives but even at the point of death,they were still heating them nd saying"you never die"wat a pity.
ReplyDeleteGod's justice z d best form of justice we can get,dey wud suffer,dat traditional ruler must b killed.
ReplyDeleteYou only reap what you sow.. So its either a set were reaping, or a set was sowing. We're just humans and the whole act and scene was so inhuman. May God just have mercy and order our steps. Just so pathetic.
ReplyDeleteI can't stp crying 4 does boys, is a big pity, God plz cme & fight der fight 4 dem
ReplyDeleteHuman right group should follow the case very closely before tribal sentiment follows.
ReplyDeleteOur govt needs to do more on this issues of jungle justice and public lynching. This should be denounce publicly and made to be announced in all media houses and newspapers that whoever goes against this will be prosecuted. According to what I heard, these guys were innocent.
ReplyDelete''This is the real story: Ugonna has been complaining to his father that his house is school was been invaded by robbers all the time so he doesn't sleep there. He had a friend in the community that he spends the night. Himself and his room mate were coming back from where they spent the night when they met their friends Chidiaka and Lloyd so they decided to go together. On their way, Lloyd said he needed to collect money from someone who was owning him. In the cause of collecting the money, the whole situation went bizzare and turn into a fight. The guy who was owning them started screaming and the vigilante group was alerted and they thought they were criminals disturbing the community since they were more in number than the guy they went to collect their money from. That's is the real story. № laptops, phones or cultism involved. Those guys were homely and they were all christians, also their parents are very comfortable and provides them with everything they needed''.
Paraventure they are even guilty, are the people of Aluu the Law? How can take the laws into their own hands with the traditional ruler ordering the killing of the young lads. Is the killing of the students commesurate with what they purported to have stolen? Which way is Nigeria heading? Are we going forward, backward or just standstill. Yet we want to be among the league of great nations. Can we when people still take laws into their hands, when suspects are been branded as thieves already, molested, beaten and finally killed in broad day light with fellow Nigerians standing by and watching instead of alerting the authority.
People are always too eager to take actions and killed aimlessly. Similar situation happened in Lagos sometimes ago for you to know the deplorable states of the minds of people who would not find out details of events before meting out their stupid, backward, medieval jungle justice. A mother was rebuking her 7-years old child on the way home from school and possibly the child fought back. Immediately, passerbys raised the alarm she is a child kidnapper/ritualist and before u could think of it, people had gathered, beaten the woman to the state of stupor and some clamouring for tyres and petrol to burn her alive. Only for one of the school's teacher who passed by and saw the situation. On speaking, the angry mob immediately pounced on her and accused her she is an accomplice etc to the child kidnapper. If not for the immediate intervention of fresh witnesses that just got to the scene and stopped them in order to allow the teacher explain the situation, both would have been lynched.
We need a general reorientation in this country of how we percieve one another. We are fast in carrying out evil deeds than in doing good deeds that will benefit your fellow neighbours.Our Govt should create more awareness campaigns against jungle justice and public lynching. These should be promoted on radios, tvs, newspapers etc and anybody or group found wanting should be dealt with. Innocent person(s) made be framed or wrongly accused especially in different locations far from where there are well known. Please let us all stop this evil acts. Thank you.
It is very sad, absurd, and barbaric for the citizenries of Nigeria to carry-out this type of broad-daylight assassination on these four vibrant youths that is/are allege of stealing. It is very disgruntle how we put laws into our hands.
ReplyDeleteBased on this mayhem that has occurred in the Aluu area, I will suggest that, the police increase their man-power of their officers to all the universities around the geographical location in the area.
And for proper investigation, I believe, the YouTube video provide an explicit detail on how these guys were murdered. There are faces shown on the video. At this point, all stand-by lookers that witness these painful killings of these guys are as guilty as the actual perpetrators.
The police should go after the people that their faces are display in the video because, they are the people that will provide the assailants. It about time we learn how to follow the continuum of laws that will protect lives and not destroyed lives.
I will keep track on this case, and follow it till justice is done for the allege victims.
Anthony Kabs (USA)