The Force Public Relations Officer CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi in a new sensitization video, made available to SpyeTV News on Monday 10th October 2022, he recalled how thousands of citizens have fell victim of Jungle Justice in the country.
In the video, the FPRO appealed to Nigerians to shun Jungle Justice and trust Nigeria Police Force to handle all criminal cases accordingly.
There have been 391 mob killings in Nigeria since 2019, according to SBM Intelligence, a Lagos-based think-tank, with at least five this year alone.
After the Aluu Four incident about 10 years ago, where four students had run into a local vigilante group at dawn in Aluu, a community behind the University of Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria's oil capital.
There had been a spate of robberies in the area and at that time of the morning, people became suspicions. Accused of being petty thieves, the four - Llody Toku, Ugonna Obuzor, Chiadika Biringa and Tekena Elkanah - were given a mock trial and found guilty.
Their punishment was handed out immediately: they were stripped, marched around the community, brutally beaten and set alight by the mob as thousands watched and filmed.
