Bliss4Lyfe: Dis one pass me oh... Even police could not do anything. This lady can never have peace again becos she will keep seeing and hearing the screams of her brother. I never thought it possible dat any family member could watch as a mob killed their love ones. I will die with dem.

CrazyMan: The thing is...during an execution of a thief, there is this demon that seems to possess people.

Everyone present in act are like...kill kill kill...no mercy no sympathy...and no one there would even bother to object such an act.

Maybe its because anyone who doesn't seem to agree with their decision (killing of an alleged thief) could be seriously dealt with.

I think our government needs to give our youths proper education.

Orientation 101 (steps on how to hand over a thief to the right authorities) would be a good start.

Super1759: A sister of one of the four University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) students brutally murdered last Friday in Umuokiri village, Aluu, Rivers State, has narrated how her younger brother and his friends were lynched.

Miss Ibisobia Elkanah, elder sister of Tekena Friday Elkanah, revealed yesterday that policemen visited the scene where the students were burnt to death after they were severely injured and that one of the law enforcement agents told the perpetrators of the dastardly act “to burn them alive”

The murdered students, Chiadika Lordson, Ugonna Kelechi Obusor, Mike Lloyd Toku, and Tekena Elkanah, all part two students, were murdered in cold blood over alleged theft of a laptop computer and a blackberry phone. Ibisobia, a part-time final year student of Marketing, at the same university who witnessed the incident, said on that fateful day, at about 7.30 am, she was at the house of her girl friend in the community when she heard people shouting outside. “I dashed out and beckoned on my friend to come since she lived in the area.

The thing attracted much noise and attention. I went there but did not actually see or recognize any of them, due to the crowd. “I heard when people were saying the people they (vigilance group) caught were strangers; that they want to burn them.

They said they were asking them questions, so that they could know their senders.” She said after that, she went back to her friend’s house, but could not stay there. “I went back again. I went through the bush path so that I could see them properly. I started jumping to see if I could see them. I jumped again but saw nothing. I jumped the second time and I saw Tekena. Tekena happened to be my brother. “I told myself that I was not seeing well, this thing is a lie. I jumped the third time, I saw Lloyd (one of the victims). So, I started shouting.

From what I gathered, the first time I came, they said they were not known; that they were strangers. As I identified them, I started shouting. Ibisobia said she continued shouting that Tekena was her brother, saying that he came to her on Thursday in school and she gave him his school fees. “I told them that somebody should allow me to ask him what happened and what he came to do. He would confide in me. He was wailing and in a pool of blood.”

“Tekena has been my younger brother for many years. I saw them as they lay in the water naked with leaves covering their unclothedness.” His elder sister said she struggled and entered the crowd. Somebody shouted “Who is that? What is she doing inside?” “People were pushing me and I started crying. He is my brother! He is not a thief! Somebody behind me said O’girl run for your life.

About two persons turned and asked, are you sure he is your brother, and said may be I was the person that sent him to go and steal.” Ibisobia replied them that how could she send him, that she did not look as such. ‘They said I should run for my life that I would be the next one, fifth person.” The young lady lamented that before she could get to her friend’s room to call her family members, she learnt that the mob had taken them to the burrow pit. “So, I went there again.

I called my family and they started coming. The police van came, went into the mob and they were talking to them (youths). The people kept quiet as police were making statements. “I heard them laughing. You know, they were happy. They kept quiet again. Police talked and they laughed again. The next was for me to see three policemen coming out of the mob, boarded their van. And, one of the said “burn them alive”. “I must confess, I was gripped with fear.

I had the intention to talk to the man that said they should be burnt alive. As soon as they (police) drove off, I saw the flames. I was thinking they burnt them after they had killed them. Later, I discovered that they were burnt while they were alive.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/aluu-4-i-watched-them-kill-my-brother-tekenas-sister/

CGKing: Girl or no girl. What I know is:

1. NOTHING would hsve stopped what was going to happen. That community is a murderous community n they wanted to experience killing another human being. Before any human being can subject another human being to these tortures, they must have first dehumanised themselves. They must have first loathed themselves. This is d only way, they would have been able to go thru that experience. They wanted to kill somebody for the feeling or frenzy of killing n no kind of reasoning would have stopped them. Didn't anybody notice they were children in school? In fact from the video they knew. They spoke about school fees. Any normal human being would first have presented the matter to the school because they obviously knew they were from the school. The only reason they did not go to the school was becos they knew that it would most definitely be show over. They really wanted the thrill. N to experience the frenzy of killing someone.

2. How can a normal human being kill a student for goodness sake? How? If it were only one man or two ppl present in d killings, I would be willing to understand that there were no conflict of opinion n so on but there were hundreds of ppl there r no single person raised an opposition. Every single man present that day is a murderer. I can't even watch d video one complete time yet some body was there live! They even recorded it.

3. The aluu community wanted to share the thrill so they recorded no exported their evil natur, their tots, their desires. Hoping also that their actions would be justified.

4. This is what I know about jungle justice killings n if u notice, they always go d same way. These kind of killings always first attempt to dehumanise the victim of their Attack before their eyes. They do this to work on their hearts n their minds in order to convince themselves that the objects of their attack kill whatever respect they could have. They convince themselves that the victim, is not worth living. Compare it with this: why do ppl seem to love to strip public offenders off their clothings? Y? There is really no reason for it other than the feeling of seeing another's unclothedness.

Nothing can ever justify what these ppl did. They knew what they wanted, it wasn't their justice, it wasn't for anything rational. It was for the excitement of it. For the experience of killing s human. They wanted to see blood onnthe ground,they wanted to see snother man suffer n they wanted to dominate another man. This is a murderous community and may the heavens n earth never forgive them for what they did.

oubi:

Whn dealing wit mobs, females have mor imunity dan males. She wuld ђa√ع made a difference if she had created a scene.

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First of all, I disagree that nothing could have stopped that lynching.. The police could have stopped it, the crowd could have stopped it, the chief of the town could have stopped it and above all, the girl could have done something about it. Aluu community took the law into their hands because of the failure of the police to protect them. I guess they wanted to set an example for the others.

100s of people didn't raise an objection prolly because somewhere in their minds, they believed they believed they had caught the robbers who had been terrorising them and prolly had killed residents of the community in the past, so I can understand them not raising an objection, but I can't wrap my head around the sister also not raising a loud and noticeable objection. She was so quiet that none of the testimonies so far from eye witnesses even spoke about her presence there.

The point with jungle justice is always to set an example.. The wages of crime is death.. For the women, it's unclothedness and some beatings, for the guys, beatings, unclothedness and burning.

The actions of the people of Aluu can be justified from a jungle justice point of view, they caught criminals who had been terrorising them and executed their own form of justice, sending a message to others that in Aluu, robbers get killed. When Bakassi boys took over Abia state and Anambra state and started executing known criminals in public, people were happy, same for Lagos with OPC. This is not a first time occurrence.. The only difference is that this is the first time we have seen a live jungle justice court in action and now we all know that indeed its inhumane. If that video didn't come out, the sentiments flowing around today wouldn't be as much.. Because very few would be able to appreciate the cruelty and barbaric nature of jungle justice. It's an African phenomenon, Ghana does it, Kenya does it same as Nigeria, but this is the first video of one.



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Okija_juju:


My guy..

Go and rewatched that video.. Listen in the background.. People were begging them to stop.. If she made a scene.. Shouting help.. Police.. He is a student.. Even strip herself butt naked swearing as she can, maybe.. maybe.. it might have been different..
The scene of that crime didnt look like were even a single frined of theirs was at let alone a blood related sister..

freecocoa: From her narration, its like she only got to know about it when they were being taken to the burrow pit for burning, they have already been tortured thoroughly, I guess the shock was too much for her but menh I'd rather die with him than stand o.

CrazyMan:
Its not about following another man's flow, its about doing what is right.

This is human life we're talking about not animals.

What kind of fear would make you watch in silence while your blood brother is being murdered like an animal?

I think its you who ought to get realistic here.

freecocoa: We don't know if her friend went with her but even if she did, we still don't know exactly what happened so let's be reasonable here, haven't you ever been in a situation where you later say to yourself "I'd have done this thing this way"? Only God really knows how the whole thing went, it seems to me that it was at the point of them almost being burnt that she came, she is a human being with emotions, her brain wouldn't have been intact seeing her brother in a pool of blood about to be burnt, it must have not been easy for her, do you even think its easy to pass through a crowd? Let's just cut her some slack please.

SweetMouth: I've followed the stories coming out from Nigeria regarding the 4 Uniport students that were killed in the most gruesome way ever in the history of mankind with onlookers cheering in support. How pathetic!
And also more pathetic is some comments of people & the attitude of the govt concerning this issue & I'm forced to ask the question; WHAT VALUE DOES THE GOVERNMENT PLACES ON THE LIVES OF HER CITIZENS? Are we aware the president & RS govt has not made any official statement regarding this matter?

dvdon:
Bros all these points are quite clear but u r sounding these way because u haven't really pictured in ur visual mind. Such a scene could be terrifying first seeing ur broda and still paundering somwhere that u could be dreaming secondly as a female the fear of being probed into the lynch must be terrifying 2 her she did wat she thought was best by calling her family but the point I strongly agree with u is the one that asked why she didn't beg and persuade the police men 2 save her broda.

Finally I don think you would have been able 2 stop d lynch if u hv someone close to u there on your own without ending up roasted too.

thegoodjoehunt:

From my study of her statement:

When she first came there, her brother and his friends have not been moved to the Burrow pit to be burnt.

By the time she came with the Officers, the Vigilante men have already moved them to the Burrow Pit for burning.

When the Officers were through talking with the Natives, they understood the plan was to burn them alive.

As the Officers left, one of them Screamed Burn them alive.


So when she went for help, she had no idea they were about to be burnt. The police officers she brought made her believe the situation will be settled and that took away a lot of time she might have done something else to save the life of her younger brother.

Heart Wrenching.

fairygeh: I dont understand how a sister would watch her own blood brother die in her presence and barely a week after she is wearing makeup.i dont suppose that was the same makeup dt she was wearing on the day the incidence occured,so she is conscious about appearing beautiful before a camera? She doesnt strike me as someone who is griefstricken and just witnessed the murder of her brother,i mean she shdnt even remember what makeup means yet even using earrings?long one and still some smaller ones to compliment it.like seriously dont they mourn from what ever part of Nigeria she is from.there are timÉs when even if i am a little disturbed about something not serious,i dont even think of making up not to talk of dis very sad event. not condemning her though and she cant. Certainly be happy about her brothers death but hmmmm if her hands were tied about not being able to save her brother from death den she should atleast make us feel her painS.

Okija_juju:


She exhibited cowardice..

Now let me ask you all here one question...

WOULD THE ANY MOTHERS OF THOSE BOYS IN THE SAME SITUATION AS THIS GIRL STAND BY AND WATCH?!!!

I SAY HELLLLLLZZZZ NO!!!

I expected to see her rolling on the floor, crying her eyeballz out.. Her voice should have been the loudest in that video.. She should have thrown herself at their mercy.. Done something.. Not stand and watch as if she didnt know them.. Strip herself N`aked.. WTF!!