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  • Man lynched for allegedly consuming human faeces

    A mob has lynched an unknown man, believed to be in his 30s, at Odo Ado area in Ado Ekiti, the state capital for allegedly consuming human faeces.

    The suspect was paraded at different parts of the state capital, including Okeyinmi, Matthew Street, Ijigbo and others before taking him to Odo Ado, where he was lynched.

    A source, who confided in our reporter, claimed that the man was killed allegedly for consuming faeces.

    When the journalist got to the scene of the incident, the victim had been partly burnt, lying dead on the street in a part of Odo Ado called Red Roof Junction.

    Residents claimed the man had earlier been paraded in parts of the state capital, including the palace of the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adeyemo Adejugbe, to report the incident.

    The Nation gathered that the man was sighted by an unidentified elderly woman, who raised the alarm which prompted youths of the area to arrest him.

    They stripped him naked and while beating him, the sources added, the victim sought help by mentioning some clergymen he claimed to know in the town.

    The mob had followed him to a white garment church at the Odo Ado area but when they couldn’t get the clergyman the victim had named at home, he allegedly took to his heels but the pursuing mob caught up with him at the Red Roof Junction.

    The mob pulled down the roof of the church and destroyed its property, including all they found at an adjoining room neighbours had described as “the church office.”

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    None of the witnesses at the neighbourhood could identify the victim.

    The witnesses at the Red Roof had dispersed when newsmen arrived at the area, refusing to speak and claiming they could be victims of police raid when the security agents arrive to investigate the incident.

    All the witnesses could give as reason for the killing was “they said he as gathering faeces into a bag at Matthew area, and they said it was an elderly woman that spotted him and raised the alarm.”

    The witnesses further claimed that the man was stabbed with broken bottle but it didn’t enter but later lynched on the suspicion that he was a member of a ritual gang.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Ekiti State police command, Mr. Caleb Ikechukwu, could not be reached for comments as his mobile was switched off.

  • Three policemen escape lynching

    Three policemen yesterday escaped lynching at Christ the King Cathedral (CKC) Aba, Abia State, for chasing a bus driver into the church premises while mass was on.

    The policemen, it was gathered, chased the driver from Asa Road by Azikiwe Junction, into the church for refusing to stop.

    The church’s security locked the gate, thereby preventing the mob from entering, and also trapped worshipers from going home.

    When the mob refused all pleas to let the officers be, they were let out through the church’s third gate on Obohia road.

    An eyewitness, Chiemeka, said the police in Aba are now taking worship centres for granted, and that if nothing is done about such unholy acts, it may lead to serious fracas.

    A security guard said since the church cannot permit an angry mob to attack the trapped policemen, it was high time the police force examined the mental status of its recruit.

  • Gunman escaped lynching in Edo

    A member of a four-man armed gang who attacked and stabbed a pharmacist in Benin City was beaten to coma by a mob.

    The pharmacist whose names could not be ascertain as at press time was stabbed severally in the stomach.

    It was gathered that the attackers stormed the pharmacist shop along Wire Road, opposite Emotan College, in an Audi 80 car at about 6:25pm and ran away after the attack but left one of their member behind.

    The shots fired by the attackers attracted youths in the area to the scene.

    One of the suspect who was left behind attempted to scare the youths away by brandishing a shot gun but the gun refused to fire.

    He was said to have scaled the perimeter fence of Emotan College but the youths was pursued and caught him.

    The youths beat him to coma until policemen from Obi market police division arrived and saved the suspect from being killed.

    It could not however be ascertained whether it was a case of robbery or assassination as the pharmacist was rushed to a nearby hospital.

    Attempt to obtain comment from the spokesman of the Edo Police Command, DSP Osifo Abiodun, failed.

  • Pastor nearly mobbed for hawking fried meat in Akure

    Pastor nearly mobbed for hawking fried meat in Akure

    A self acclaimed Pastor, Mr. Adeniyi Johnson was escaped from being nearly lynched to death Thursday by residents of Ijomu area in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

    Johnson, who claimed to be a pastor at one popular Pentecostal Church in the state, was mobbed for allegedly hawking fried meat and fetish items in bag.

    It was gathered the pastor was begging the people to come and eat with him.

    The action was said to have aroused curiosity on the part of the people ‎who immediately apprehended him.

    It was further gathered that, while some suggest instant judgment for him on the basis of his action others pleaded that he should be taking to the Deji’s palace to explain his mission with the meat.

    But Johnson told the crowd that he has just been transferred to Ipogun branch of the church from Iju/Ita-Ogbolu and he was directed to do this by the Holy Spirit.

    At the palace, security agents fought hard to prevent an already converged crowd from lynching Johnson as he recounted his mission in Yoruba while being quizzed by place chiefs.

    While explaining what led him to the action, Johnson said he was divinely instructed to go and share the meat to save his dying son.

    ‎He appealed to the people to allowed him to go and continue what he called his end time mission based on revelation from God.

    Thereafter, he was whisked away to the Area Command headquarters of the police for further interrogation.

    At the state headquarters of the winners chapel in Akure, a senior pastor who spoke off record said Johnson was sacked as a Pastor of one of its local branches about a month ago to allow his family treat him after showing signs of insanity ‎.

    Also at the Police Area Command, a senior officer who spoke under the condition of anonymity confirmed that some pastors from the church have come to attest that pastor Johnson has mental issues.

    The officer said the police is now awaiting his family to come with his medical record on his mental state before he can be possibly released to them.

     

     

  • Suspected burglar climbs high tension to evade lynching

    Suspected burglar climbs high tension to evade lynching

    A Cameroonian, Frederick Gino, was yesterday rescued from committing suicide on a high tension electric pole in Lagos.

    The incident, which occurred on Adebisi Ogunniyi Crescent in Lekki Phase One, Lagos around 5:30am attracted motorists and passersby, who called the Fire Service through the emergency toll free numbers.

    The man was sighted on the pole around 5:30am, and all the efforts to get him down failed.

    The Cameroonian was said to have climbed the pole to avoid being lynched after he was allegedly caught in an attempted burglary.

    He was said to have gone up the pole following disconnection of light by the Eko Distribution Company.

    Gino was said to have attempted to harm himself when operatives of the fire service, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), the police and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) arrive to bring him down.

    The Nation gathered that he was injured while been rescued and taken to Oba Yekini Eleguishi Health Centre in Lekki.

    According to a witness, the Cameroonian said he did not know how he got to Nigeria.

    He claimed that the victim climbed the pole after he was caught attempting to burgle a nearby mall.

    “It is not a suicide attempt. The guy is a thief. He wanted to burgle a mall in the neighbourhood but he was caught and chased. He fled and climbed the electric pole for fear of being lynched.

    “He didn’t get the close to the cable until Eko Distribution Company was contacted to isolate the area. Even at the hospital, he wanted to run but he was pinned down. He later started begging that he was hungry and needed food. That he has nowhere to go,” said the eyewitness.

    LASEMA General Manager Michael Akindele said; “Security operatives will conduct proper investigation on the matter. People should be watchful, observe strange faces and other activities around them. Such incidents should also be reported to security agencies or a call placed to either 767 or 112.”

  • ‘How I escaped lynching’

    One of the operators of hired taxis at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Mr. Chidi Kanu, at the weekend narrated how he escaped being lynched by protesting airport taxi drivers.

    Kanu, the managing director of Viko Nigeria Group of Companies, said but for the intervention of the Air Force personnel, he would have been killed by the protesters.

    He urged security agencies to investigate the incident and arrest the culprits.

  • Kidnap suspect escapes lynching

    A kidnap suspect, Samson Olajide, escaped lynching yesterday in Efon-Alaaye, headquarters of Efon Local Government Area of Ekiti State.

    It was gathered that he was “caught” while attempting to abduct a one-year-old boy.

    The incident, which happened at Ita Imesi, saw youths mobilising themselves to attack the suspect, who was struggling to squeeze the little boy inside a sack.

    Unknown to the suspect, he was being watched by a commercial motorcyclist.

    The motorcyclist rushed to the scene and challenged the suspect, who was unable to explain his action.

    The motorcyclist reportedly slapped Olajide and raised the alarm, which attracted passers-by.

    Olajide was saved by some elders who advised that he should be taken to the palace of the Alaaye of Efon, Oba Emmanuel Adesanya Aladejare.

    On arrival at the palace, the monarch pleaded with the youth to hand him over to the police, but they resisted.

    A disagreement occurred between the police and the youth as they insisted they would not hand the suspect over to the police.

    Oba Aladejare prevailed on them and the suspect was later handed over to the police.

    The 23-year-old suspect from Ikere-Ekiti did not say anything about the incident.

    Police spokesman Alberto Adeyemi could not be reached for comments.

     

  • Man escapes lynching over ‘mysterious’ deaths in Ekiti community

    A resident of Ifaki Ekiti, Tope Adigun Omotayo, narrowly escaped a lynching for alleged complicity in the death of six persons, including a 34-year-old graduate, Surajudeen Olabode Fadahunsi.

    Omotayo was fingered in the death of the individuals through ‘mystical’ means.

    The death of Fadahunsi, a 2011 graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the Ekiti State University, provoked an angry response from residents of the community who attempted to kill Omotayo.

    Fadahunsi, a jobless graduate, was said to have died twenty days after his wife was delivered of a baby.

    Omotayo is now in protective custody of the state police command with investigation underway at press time.

    The Nation gathered that Omotayo was sighted by vigilant youths at Fadahunsi’s graveside where he allegedly took samples of sand that residents claimed he planned to use to appease the spirit of Fadahunsi that tormented him.

    Fadahunsi’s mother, Ms. Bimbo Yusuf, told reporters at her Ado Ekiti home that her son was killed with ‘fetish means’ by Omotayo.”

    Yusuf claimed that the suspect allegedly confessed to using juju to take her son’s life.

    She said her family knew nothing of the cause of her son’s death until “Omotayo confessed to killing him after his burial.”

    Yusuf, an Information Officer with Ekiti State Local Government Service Commission, revealed that the family’s position was substantiated by the fact that Omotayo was apprehended by Ifaki youths beside her son’s tomb.

    She said: “Omotayo had gone to collect sand from the deceased’s grave and cried that he needed it to ward off the ghost which he said was haunting him. My son had reportedly died a few minutes after answering a phone call on a site he was inspecting in Ibadan, Oyo State. He was to be buried almost immediately according to Islamic rites, but just before he was laid to rest, some aggrieved friends of his asked the Muslim clerics to wait and allow them perform some rituals that would make Muyiwa’s ghost haunt his killer.

    “And they eventually did so. Omotayo had come to take sand from his grave and he was crying that the ghost (of Surajudeen) was slapping him. My son had been searching for job for five years now. His wife just gave birth to a child about 20 days ago. He wanted to start frozen fish business in Ibadan. I still spoke to him on Wednesday about the development before we suddenly heard of his mysterious death the following day.”

    The spokesman of Ekiti Police Command, Mr Alberto Adeyemi, said Omotayo was rescued from an angry mob.

    He said:  “We rescued a man (Omotayo) from a mob in Ifaki-Ekiti. He was in danger in the community and we moved in to prevent jungle justice.”

     

  • Man suspected of kidnapping seven kids escapes lynching

    Man suspected of kidnapping seven kids escapes lynching

    But for providence, a technician would have been Iynched in Lagos last weekend by a mob that thought he abducted the eight children in his bus.

    Gabriel Chima’s  son was among the children, his explanation that he did not kidnap the boys was ignored by the mob.

    His nose was bruised and his bus vandalised.

    The incident occurred in Ijegun, Lagos, about 6pm last Friday when he went out the children to deliver some goods.

    Recounting his ordeal at the Isheri-Oshun Police Station, Chima, whose shop is on Prince Road, Tunde Akinsola Street, Ijegun, said he agreed to assist another shop owner Charles Asoku, to deliver cartons of whitening liquid at Ijegun market.

    His words: “It was my own bus and whenever business is dull, I go out in the evenings, plying Jakande Gate and Ijegun. I would go a few rounds before retiring home. These days, PHCN has been dealing with us in the area generally and I have to make ends meet. When my neighbour told me to assist him, I accepted as I have been doing for him and some others before. I did not suspect I was wrong or that the children’s coming with us that day was a disaster in waiting.”

    He said while packing the cartons inside the bus, his son and seven of his friends joined in the packing and “after we finished, my son jumped into the bus, insisting on following me”.

    Chima said: “When I saw that his friends who had worked with him equally came into the bus, I did not feel like disallowing them. We went out together. We had delivered about 50 cartons of the liquid substance at a place and was going to the second for the remaining seven when the police stopped me for a check”.

    He said it was while talking with the police that some hoodlums emerged from nowhere, calling him “a kidnapper who the police should not be allowed to take away and later released as they usually do”.

    The mob, he said, ignored his explanation that he is not a kidnapper, adding: “They punched me severally, in the process of which I lost my phone and some amount of money.

    “I told them (the police) the seven boys were friends of my own son who was in the bus. But before the police could allow me to go, these boys came from nowhere, slapping and beating me. They almost took control if not for the bravery of the police.

    “When the two officers could not control the situation, they called for additional men from the Isheri-Oshun Police Station who soon came, firing bullets into the air and releasing tear gas canisters. If the police had not done this, today I should be a dead man. The hoodlums really wanted to lynch a kidnapper,” he added.

    Sources, however, said Chima initially refused to stop for a search when the police flagged him down.

    The source said: “The man caused all that happened. The report I had was that he refused to stop when the police stopped him. This caused some suspicion and raised concerns. It was actually this development that attracted the hoodlums who almost lynched him”.

    Clarifying that no one had been arrested in connection with the attack, the source warned the people against flouting police orders, especially at check points.

    “Why will anyone not stop when ordered to do so? There are so many dangers in it. If this man had been lynched, he would have shared in the blame, although it is wrong for people to take laws into their hands as well,” the officer said.

  • NIGERIA 3-1 SUDAN: Police stop fans from lynching Eagles’ coaches

    NIGERIA 3-1 SUDAN: Police stop fans from lynching Eagles’ coaches

    • Big Boss, others run into dressing room
    • Placards asking for Keshi’s, others’ sack fill the stands

    Nigeria’s senior team coach Stephen Keshi and his colleagues ran for dear lives as fans charged towards them with bottles and cudgels in spite of the fact that the Super Eagles beat Sudan 3-1 at the Abuja National Stadium on Wednesday night.

    Rather than show appreciation towards the coaches for diging deep into their technical bags to bring out the tatics that wrecked the Sudanese, the fans who certainly had lost confidence in Keshi continued to boo him with many of them carrying placards, charging and calling for his immediate sack regardless of the result of the match.

    The fans invaded the pitch chanting and shouting to the roof top that Keshi and his assistants must go. Indeed, bottles and missiles were hauled onto the pitch with some asking what would have become of the players and coaches had Nigeria not beaten the Sudanese 3-1.

    Kudos must go the the security operatives at the stadium who worked tirelessly to ward of the irate fans who wanted to vent their spleen on the coaches, despite securing the first win for nigeria in one of the Morocco 2015 Africa Cup of Nations’ matches in Abuja.