Odo-Ota LGA of Ogun State around 9am when 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/
Totoro areas that a woman has been attacked around Totoro 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.
