Someone who knew what happened narrated the incident, he said the people came from Ayedun quarters in Akure, and had been monitoring the man before they dragged him to Adegbola Junction, beat him mercilessly and set him ablaze.
The person added that policemen from Akure division tried to stop the lynching but were beaten off by the youth, and youth who witnessed the attack were heard shouting that they had lost hope in police to prevent other attacks, and others pick up rocks and throw at the van of the security agents.Adegbola Junction is the mid section for Oba Adesida and Oyemekun roads in the Akure, and is a popular gathering place newspaper and magazine correspondents and journalists.
Similar situation occurred at Owode in Akure as a woman was grabbed and almost burned by residents.
According to the narrator, the issue started when a fetish item fell out of a woman handbag. When people informed the woman of her dropped fetish item, she refused to pick which raised suspicion among people in the street. The Youth grabbed the woman, beat her and she confessed that 15 people were sent from Ede in Osun state to carry out kidnappings, adding that they regularly report their movement and progress to their sponsor and godfather in Ede.
The youth, after her confession, poured petrol on her, but stopped by the Ondo State Police Officer before they could set her on fire. To scare the crowd away, the police shot canisters and teargas and threatened to arrest anyone who approached the woman.
The woman was dressed in rags with fetish items in her bag which included:
- Paper containing list of peoples’ mobile number
- Money in various denominations
- Sponge and local soap (Oose dudu)
- White sheets containing Yoruba incantations
- Traditional rings and a white rosary.
Though the woman refused to give her name, but confessed that she was a trader at Oja Timi’ in Ede town, Osun State, and she also refused to give up the name of her sponsors who ordered her to kidnap school children.
The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Wole Ogodo, confirmed the incidents but implored the public to avoid engaging in jungle justice and warned anyone who was caught breaking the law would be punished.
Jungle Justice: Mobs burnt a kidnapper to death, injure others in Ogun State
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