The Ogun Police are investigating the incident.
Six young men accused of smoking Indian hemp and gambling have been set ablaze in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, by a house owner in their area.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the landlord, identified as Agba, in Ago-Oko area of the town where the incident occurred, had warned the boys on several occasions to desist from their acts, warnings they ignored.
However, on Tuesday night, the boys engaged in their acts in their regular building which infuriated Agba, their neighbour.
The landlord subsequently poured a keg of petrol, through his window on the first floor of a storey building, on the boys.
The already lighted Indian hemp was flamed by the petrol causing a major fire that burnt the boys causing severe injury. The victims were later rushed to a state hospital where they are currently receiving treatment.
The victims are Saburi Seteolu, Raheem Bello, Tunde Adesanya, Suleiman Adebesin, Azeez Alabi, and Kola Sodehinde.
The landlord, a commercial cab driver in the town, has been arrested as confirmed by the spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi.
Mr. Adejobi said the incident occurred late on Tuesday.
“Information available to us is that the suspect had an argument with the youths before he poured PMS on them in Ago-Oko area.
“For now, we cannot ascertain other circumstances that led to the incident but we have the suspect in our custody and we are working hard to untie what led to it,” he said.
The spokesman said Ogun Police Commissioner, Ikemefuna Okoye, had ordered a comprehensive investigation into the matter.
He said the suspect would be charged to court as soon as investigation into the matter was concluded. He also warned youth in the area not to engage in any reprisal attack, saying that could disrupt peace in the area.
When a PREMIUM TIMES correspondent visited the hospital, the victims were seen with various degrees of severe burns.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/142424-man-sets-six-people-ablaze-for-smoking-indian-hemp.html

Instead of taking laws into his hands, he should have called on the police to apprehend them.

Some wayward things can constitute nuisance all the time.
Disturbing people with the smell from the hemp and making useless noise while gambling.

Attribute of ghetto.

Jail things. F2C

The kind of people that are in this world.

The landlord smokes hemp too. if not he wouldn't have got the mind to set humans ablaze

Excess moral dey worry d man. He no fit call police? Ok I don remember,police is no longer peoples friend

Chai!! Well I don't blame them! End time is near

hmmmmm ... not all humans are humane.
tenants burn weed
landlord come burn tenants.
... if God were human, I wonder wetin e for do ?

anyway 2face don talk am sha, nobody holy pass.

This incident starkly illustrates the natural progession of barbarity that evolves when all levels of Nigerian government turn a blind eye as increasing numbers of people who have NOT been judged in any legitimate court of law are attacked, horribly tortured, killed and burnt to ashes by baying mobs.

Not a day passes now when a new photograph does not appear on the pages this internet form, showing the grisly outcome of mob murder in Nigeria. It is time NOW for the Nigerian FEDERAL government to OPENLY condemn mob lynching, and to back up that new ban by arresting and jailing for life ALL those street mob members who can ALREADY be identified from photographs which capture these horrific lynchings, posted widely on the internet.

The recent arrest and prosecution of a policeman who stood by while men were burnt to death in the street is a start, but only a modest, token start. There are scores of civilians of KNOWN identity who should also be picked out from numerous photographs of mob killings already published, so that they can be arrested to face trial and subsequent life sentences in jail, as just and overdue legal retribution for their roles in lynch mob tortures and killings.

By the time Nigerian governments arrest, try in court and jail for life the first 100 civilian lynch mob murderers, that gruesome breakdown in civil order will be consigned to the darkest chapters of Nigerian history, where such savagery rightly belongs.

Murder is murder, regardless of whether it is perpetrated by one lone killer in the dead of night, of by many screaming killers in broad daylight.

[size=14pt]Arrest and JAIL FOR LIFE ALL LYNCH MOB KILLERS.[/size] Let this madness stop NOW.

This is 2013, and not 1913.

It doesn't matter under wat guise he poured petrol on them, he should have called the police and if the police don't act, he should organise a compound meeting and the tenants would join force 2geda and chase them 4rm there! Not taking the laws into his hands- he should do time in jail

In times like dis,I guess a double barrel gun should be a household equipment should in case....

Majikals: In times like dis,I guess a double barrel gun should be a household equipment should in case....

Can we take this statement to mean that you would rather have heard of the killer shooting his victims instead of setting them ablaze?

Serves dem right sha,bt d man shld be ready wen does boyz are back frm d hospital#gobe

What is it with these sick crimes trending nowadays in Nigeria. Apparently someone is setting another person ablaze on a daily basis. If it's not a jealous lover, it is a psychotic nurse or some lowlife bloodthirsty hoodlums called mobs. What is going on?

Why ogun state bring bad new to Yoruba land always

The way people are heartlessly burning people these days is alarming and calls for attention!

Resolving to setting ablaze a fellow human being!

He didn't care if his house would even burnt down by that mere act!

adamooye5: The Ogun Police are investigating the incident.
Six young men accused of smoking Indian hemp and gambling have been set ablaze in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, by a house owner in their area.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the landlord, identified as Agba, in Ago-Oko area of the town where the incident occurred, had warned the boys on several occasions to desist from their acts, warnings they ignored.
However, on Tuesday night, the boys engaged in their acts in their regular building which infuriated Agba, their neighbour.
The landlord subsequently poured a keg of petrol, through his window on the first floor of a storey building, on the boys.
The already lighted Indian hemp was flamed by the petrol causing a major fire that burnt the boys causing severe injury. The victims were later rushed to a state hospital where they are currently receiving treatment.
The victims are Saburi Seteolu, Raheem Bello, Tunde Adesanya, Suleiman Adebesin, Azeez Alabi, and Kola Sodehinde.
The landlord, a commercial cab driver in the town, has been arrested as confirmed by the spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi.
Mr. Adejobi said the incident occurred late on Tuesday.
“Information available to us is that the suspect had an argument with the youths before he poured PMS on them in Ago-Oko area.
“For now, we cannot ascertain other circumstances that led to the incident but we have the suspect in our custody and we are working hard to untie what led to it,” he said.
The spokesman said Ogun Police Commissioner, Ikemefuna Okoye, had ordered a comprehensive investigation into the matter.
He said the suspect would be charged to court as soon as investigation into the matter was concluded. He also warned youth in the area not to engage in any reprisal attack, saying that could disrupt peace in the area.
When a PREMIUM TIMES correspondent visited the hospital, the victims were seen with various degrees of severe burns.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/142424-man-sets-six-people-ablaze-for-smoking-indian-hemp.html

Its wrong,this is attempted murder.People will keep acting with impunity if our laws are not firm.Our justice system must be strong and fair this is the only way we attain true peace,stability and development as a people.
IG please direct that the landLord face a judge to face his crimes.Nigerians are the citizens,the Government should protect its people with the justice system through the office of the attorney general.
This man should face the law for his crimes.

Wow buzzkill, bad trip, wet blanket.... All major understatements! Don't get high in public, lesson learned

they were all smoked after smoking

Jakumo:

Can we take this statement to mean that you would rather have heard of the killer shooting his victims instead of setting them ablaze?

Nope,d victims shooting d high landlord b4 falling victims

Hahahahaha. Probably, the landlord had inhaled enough second-hand smoke to get him high and give him the 'liver' to actualize what he had only been fantasizing on doing to those boys all along.

Smoking weed shuld nt be judged by any living persn as a bad tin. Who are we to judge. This stuff is nt entirely bad. It's like a gun,it can be used for either good or bad,depending on the mind using it. A drunk policeman killd an innocent man wit a gun assigned to him to use to protect. Does that make policemen carrying guns bad?

Ok na...

I think d man is safer off being in d prison. Who knows wat d 6igbo smoking boys nd their fellow igbo smokin friends ll do in revenge to him wen they я out of d hospital wit thier permanent burn scars!

Where's that billyonaire of a dude?.. See what your "sensible" brother has done.

"now the landlord is going to spend the rest of his life behind bars"

"never for once has violence been a resolution to conflict"

"some people should learn to use their brains"


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How can a human being in his right mind just wake up and decide to pour PMS on 6 living souls I don't get it! Lord have mercy on us o!

How did we get to this point? Was the world this crazy before internet or we are all posing for the cameras for the world to see since there is a medium to convey our hidden madness for all to see.

O boy! Smoking till infinity.

Afrocatalyst: Smoking weed shuld nt be judged by any living persn as a bad tin. Who are we to judge. This stuff is nt entirely bad. It's like a gun,it can be used for either good or bad,depending on the mind using it. A drunk policeman killd an innocent man wit a gun assigned to him to use to protect. Does that make policemen carrying guns bad?

Give me examples of people who smoke indian hemp and it leads them to being decent or a moral. We sud not be afraid to say the truth cos that is wat can set us free,u c ur younger one stealing u dd not talk becos u dont want to judge hhhmmm u beta watch it before God will judge u. Thou wat the man dd was very bad but to smoke indian hemp is bad especially when u do it in public.