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#ALUU4 5 Years In Remembrance - Gone But Not Forgotten

The Aluu four 4 was a necklace lynching that involved four young men, Ugonna Obuzor, Toku Lloyd, Chiadika Biringa, and Tekena Elkanah, all students of the University of Port Harcourt.

They were all lynched after they were falsely accused of theft in Aluu, a community in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria on 5 October 2012.

Incident

Chiadika Biringa, Lloyd Toku Mike, Tekena Elkanah and Ugonna Obuzor were all friends, first sons of their parents, and students of University of Port Harcourt. The four students were also occasional roommates. Ugbonna sometimes spent the night with Tekena who lived outside the campus. He moved in because his residence on campus was broken into multiple times. Ugbona and Tekena were coming back from outside the campus one night when they met their other friends, Chiadika and Lloyd. One of the four had a debtor living in the nearby village of Aluu so all four decided to meet the person together. In the cause of settling the debt, a misunderstanding ensued which turned sour and eventually turned into a fight.

The debtor started screaming, claiming that the men were there to steal laptops and mobile phones. The vigilante group was alerted with the impression that the students were the criminals disturbing the community. The four men were chased through the streets by the stick and stone-wielding vigilantes, stripped naked, beaten and tortured until they were almost unconscious. Afterwards, in the presence of a crowd, they were dragged through mud, had concrete slabs dropped on their heads and car tyres filled with petrol wrapped around their necks in order to burn them.

A sister of Tekena was nearby and discovered that her brother was about to be killed via "jungle justice." She tried to intervene and rescue him with his friends by screaming at the top of her voice at the mob and reiterating their innocence but she was overpowered by the size of the mob. People from the mob told her to flee. In a last attempt to save her brother's life, she decided to contact other family members and the police, but the men had been killed by the time the required assistance was sought. The murders were filmed with a mobile phone and uploaded on the internet.

Reactions

The video went viral, with most viewers condemning the crime. Condolences were sent to the families of the victims. The Senate condemned the jungle justice that members of the community carried out where the four students were hurriedly murdered without trial in the presence of a crowd. Students of the University protested the murders and went on rampage by rioting and destroying properties in the community were the students had been lynched.

Aftermath

The lynching was widely viewed in Nigeria and the rest of the world. The crime further exposed the "jungle justice" or "mob justice"' which was still prevalent in Nigeria, as well as exposed some loopholes in Nigeria's law enforcement system. Several people where arrested in connection with the crime


Via : http://www.viviangist.ng/aluu4-5-years-in-remembrance-gone-but-not-forgotten/

Can't forget MI abaga's tribute to these boys.

I hope the lynchers are on their way to Golgotha?

My heart bleeds each time I remember them. May their souls continue to rest. #saynotojunglejustice

continue to RIP brothers

Wow! It's 5 years already. Those beasts just wasted these young souls. Rest on guys.

damn... those guys would probably be in their offices by now so sad..

Senseless killings....very sad.

Say no to jungle justice !!!

All those people who falsely accused them and watched them burn to death are MURDERERS!

So sad

In a zoo, the beasts have their corner where the wild ones are found.

If Nigeria is a zoo as they call it; then their region is meant for the wild. They are the animals.

Rip

very painful. some humans have no soul.

May death be the portion of those cretins that killed them. and may God continue to rest there souls in peace, AMEN.

Na so these guys die o.
And the case vanished

They just had to wake up by 4am to go and retrieve money from a debtor.....

Lesson learnt:
Dog wey patient dey chop the fattest bone..

If they had just calmed down wait till day break all of em for dey with us now.

wetin com hapen to d guy dat raised d false alarm


Mehn I feel like feeling sometin

So bad.

Were the perpetrators of this act eventually apprehended?

5 years on the useless senate is yet to do anything about this

5yrs already. So sad

Man's inhumanity to another man. Just look at the manner that sadist is raising the log with demonic relish.

I wonder where the debtor who labelled them thieves is right now....people get mind ooo. I remember this incidence like yesterday. RIP to these hansome guys!

Five years already? It was a sad, sad story to cover as a journalist...I pray their families have moved on from the trauma.

Can't believe it is 5yrs gone already

Continue to rest in peace

5 Years now and I feel like it was just yesterday.... continue to rest in peace brothers.
#God help us all

This event was a psychologically devastating one.

Didn't have the gut to watch the clip, never will. #RestOnALUU4

5 yrs already wow. I'm very sure the perpetrators are living comfortably among other humans

and the guy that accused them can sleep at night shm

There is only one tragedy that is more worst than d ALUU4 tragedy in the history of NIGERIA and that is to allow BUHARI to rule us again, what a tragedy! Anyways, RIP to them, thank God we all are still alive.

Had nightmares for days when u saw the clip..
Twas crazy and I wonder how tonyt is gonna be lyk again...

#SayNoToJungleJustice
#GodBlessTheDead.