phlame: Just saw the Video ... I wish hope government would follow up the case... But if they don't ... I believe the Mafia knows what to do...

Horus: [size=17pt]Help stop the practice of mob lynching in Nigeria[/size]

The Petition

We URGE you to help stop the practice of mob lynching in Nigeria.
Almost daily, persons suspected of petty or serious crimes, including children, are subjected to the worst forms of brutal assault by mobs who take the law into their hands in apprehending, trying and convicting these suspects.
The mob actions often involve stripping the victims until they are stark Unclad, after which they are viciously beaten with sticks and all manner of cudgels until they die. On other occasions, used car tires (tyres) are hung around suspects’ necks and they are doused with gasoline (petrol) before being set ablaze while alive with onlookers standing by.

Thanks to the power of the Internet, information about these extra-judicial trials by angry mobs on the streets of Nigeria is shared on blogs and social media like Twitter and Facebook, revealing that these practices are more common than assumed. This year alone, several of such brutal applications of mob justice has occurred around Nigeria.
With your help we can put an end to these barbaric acts and ensure that legal processes are followed in the matter of arresting and prosecuting perpetrators of these obvious crimes.
We also seek to make sure that the Nigerian Police adheres strictly to the LEGAL processes in dealing with suspected criminals after arrests are made.

We are petitioning the following institutions and officials:

1. The Nigerian National Assembly
2. The Nigerian Inspector-General of Police
3. The Attorney-General of the Federation
4. State House of Assemblies
5. Governors and State Commissioners of Police
6. The Nigerian Presidency

Our Demands:

a. Make it a criminal act to facilitate or participate in any act of mob lynching.
b. The intended enactment must provide incentives for informants who witness and document such acts.
c. Provide budget for public enlightenment on this matter.
d. The Nigerian Police force be more transparent on issues regarding arrested suspects

We encourage you to sign this petition and to join us in compelling the Nigerian authorities to end bestial acts that debase our humanity and project a barbaric image of Nigeria. Help stand for human decency and the rule of law in Nigeria.

Thank You.

Link to the petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/help-stop-mob-lynching-in-nigeria/

chioma134: There was a boy who grew up in my neighbourhood. I knew him well cos he was my younger brother's friend. One day,we heard he was killed by the villagers around his school. We initiallly heard he went to collect the money he lent someone who lived in the village. The friend started running away and was shouting,"thief","thief". The village youths then lynched him and set him ablaze. Later the real story came out. He and a group of friends were going on somewhere. At an okada park,they all boarded bikes. But while he was trying to climb the bike,he mistakenly raised his T-shirt,and a gun was seen under his belt. Other bike men started pursuing him,calling him a robber. He made the bike man carrying him speed off,while shooting sporadically into the air,out of fear. The other bikes followed at a distance until his bullets were exhausted. They caught up with him,lynched him and set him ablaze. This happened in broad daylight. Jungle justice is bad. His only crime was that he was in possession of a gun.

yuzedo: 1. Funny how EVERYONE condemning the actions of the villagers are baying for their blood. NOBODY is preaching forgiveness for them even though hours ago they were vociferously advocating forgiveness for the boys regardless of their crimes. Double standards I say.

2. Another question that begs an answer is this "if they weren't from 'decent homes', and if they weren't handsome young men, if they were urchins and thug-looking street rats, would you feel the exact same sympathy you do these boys?"

3. Somebody said somewhere that they were just "innocent cultists" and I laughed.. What an oxymoron! What an ignorant paradox. There are no "innocent" cultists, simple.

cwashpam: could someone pls be kind enough to send me the video
cwashpam@gmail.com

realistically: Good evening everyone,this is my first time here and i set up this account this evening just to comment on this thread....I never comment on sites...I read and move on but I had to say something on this one.....particularly because of otokx.I schooled at the university of port-harcourt and i worked there part-time before leaving port-harcourt 2 yrs ago and i lived in aluu very well,Infact my community service in year 2 was a project at Omuokiri.Otokx,the speed at which you jumped to conclusions about these boys made us believe you knew very well,conclusively, without any doubt that these were the boys terrorising aluu!your comments were very very rash,callous,lacking any basic evidence....if these boys Rob me anywhere in aluu....I'll recognise them once...these faces are the kinds you will remember very well.The first pics I got were the bloodied ones,but when i saw them cleaned up and all,these kind of faces stick (and these boys never stay uniport pass 3yrs,them too small!!!)Years ago at aluu,we couldn't sleep,every night these aluu boys will come and raid hostels...killing security men almost every week....from the genks,shepherd villa,"green villa"....even the hiltons...the way they attacked students we all knew they were indigenes cos no student,I repeat no student or group of students can Rob in aluu village and go without the indigenes been part of them...what did aluu ppl do then??am talking about 2009/2010 o...if u lived in aluu around this time....u know what i am saying...what did the aluu ppl do?Around that same time militants were camped at d man o' war camp at aluu.....over time they started robbing students and aluu indigenes...One bloody day all the militants came out......we couldnt count our losses then....from raping girls to destroying shops to looting,destroying houses owned by these same aluu ppl...all those isiewu joints u are talking about now...them no get liver open that tym na?when militants dey?what did this same aluu ppl do that time?

kenostika: I blame the majority of uniport students for allowing such humiliation.I can't remember when such incidence occured in any university with well known cultists and criminals.A real cultist/robber won't give in or surrender willingly the way these guys did.Aluu villagers and elders should apologise and pray for forgiveness,the whole world is against them.This is the worst mode of killing i have ever seen,even James Holmes was given a fair chance.

otokx:

its a rule, once you recognize armed robbers that robbed you then its either of 3 things, you either relocate from that area and leave the armed robber to God, stay in the area and ensure the armed robber goes to meet God, or have the armed robber send you to meet God. You can't compare militants with civilian criminals so don't start raising up those issues. It is because those boys are from middle class to rich homes that people are saying they are innocent (and they are because no court of law will find them guilty now that they are dead) but lets stop the hatred and accusation of the villagers. Criminality in Nigeria is on the rise and that is what we should be thinking of how to reduce.

otokx:

Who is James Holmes? You would have said Saddam Hussein, still repeat that some of you here are definitely not in Nigeria and have lost touch with the reality on ground by your many months of absence.

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The video, view with caution.
there was four students who was murdered, not three.

thegoodjoehunt: No one is saying a life is better than another. We are advocating that they should have been given a fair hearing. No matter how evil you try to paint what they might have done, they might be totally innocent. I wonder why people can be so wicked to their fellow humans.

Bliss4Lyfe: I don't have the stomach for such decadence, hence pics are gruesome enough for me and to those of u here trying to sit on the bench and give every excuse under the sun to justify the action of those muderers have failed, becos their crime now out weighs whatever those boys are accused of.

Justice must now run its full course with the perpetuation brought to book. The people dat gathered to watch the killings should also be rounded up and charged.

This is the only way forward for a backward country like Nigeria.

otokx:

So you are now the judge to determine that one crime outweighs another, good luck to you, yes - let justice run its full course, very up for that.

tttonero:

https://www./plateaulounge/

The video is on a facebook group, its horrible

chic2pimp:

SENT

Obinoscopy:

Why don't you send it to CNN via ireport on their website let the whole world see our brutality here in Nigeria

otokx:

So you are now the judge to determine that one crime outweighs another, good luck to you, yes - let justice run its full course, very up for that.

freecocoa: Nobody is determining anything but truth be told, from what people who have seen the video are saying(you inclusive)the crimes of those boys is no longer the question, I don't get how a normal human being can take another's life in such gruesome murder. Even the law doesn't kill people like that, those boys shouldn't have to suffer that much especially with no proof that they were criminals. Its just really painful, since I saw those pictures, sleeping hasn't been all that fun cos I swear I see the faces of those boys and the pain in their eyes, just leaves me wondering how the people that killed them sleep at night, especially the guy in the sweatshirt, tufiakwa.

cwashpam: Pls could someone be kind enough to send the video to cwashpam@gmail.com.
thanks.

seunajia: pDude and otokx, you guys owe us an unreserved apology. Imagine how oyb and yourselves convicted those boys without trial; Saying they were armed-robbers, they deserved what they got. blah blah.

You needn't watch the video to realise JJ is unlawful and barbaric.

One can excuse oyb because of the traumatic experience he recently went through. But you guys, why? Why for heaven's sake? Take another man's life without recourse to the law courts? In this day and age?

This case should be taken over by the NPF and the video used as evidence. All those involved, including those wicked elders should go through trial and get convicted if found guilty.

The next time I hear all you bloodthirsty-video-watching-folks talking about BH, ehn?
Useless country!

otokx:

Oh yes its possible they might be totally innocent but God is on the thrown and does not allow things happen this way? Do you know how many police vans it was reported that drove by and did not stop to disperse the mob who claimed they had caught armed robbers?

Still repeat that many of us in here in Nigeria staying in such comfort urban zones are loosing touch with reality, things are really going bad and there is no outlet so people are bottling up and one day God forbid when the people explode, this is how they would take it out on the politicians and in that day the military will just sit by and watch.

thegoodjoehunt:

What are you saying. God is on the throne but Jesus, his own son was murdered by people he never wronged. You are saying they might be innocent. Have you heard of the story of Hurricane the boxer that stayed in jail in America because he was suspected of a crime he didn't do. He was released years later when people found out he was innocent.

My view of life changed when my twin brother died this year (May 31st). He was so innocent, even as good as I see myself, he made me look evil and him a saint. We don't drink, don't smoke, don't go around chasing girls, never been into a club, never keep late nights. In my neighborhood people make this statement that ask those twins, they can never lie. Yet he died being maltreated by doctors and nurses. We don't know the philosophy and statistics of God and how fate is dealt. Many innocent people are in jail and have been murdered in cold blood. Let us allow God play his part, while we play ours.