PHOTO: Youth Set Suspected Cultist Ablaze In Akwa Ibom

On Monday, a suspected cultist who has been terrorizing people of Uyo of Akwa Ibom and its environs met his Waterloo when he was murdered in a mob action following a botched robbery attempt at Frankfik, a prominent shop along Barracks Road.

His body was dismembered at key joints before being burnt on fire beside the boutique at number 2, Effiong Udo Akpan street.

According to witnesses, the deceased, known as Tempo, has been terrorizing the area, robbing individuals of cash, phones, motorcycles, laptops, and other belongings.

“We were woken up by a shout of thief ooh, thief ooh, this early morning, at about 4:30am at number 2, Effiong Udo Akpan street. So, we immediately rallied the youths, who cooperated and stormed the compound.

“And while his colleagues fled, he was unlucky to be caught. The youths tried to administer instant judgement on him, but machetes could not penetrate him. It was after the boys chained his legs, cut some charms from his waist, that the cuts started piercing his body.

“Thereafter, his body was laced with petrol and set alight because he was in the habits of taking hard drugs inside the ravine of Eka street, where he used to live during the day and begins his criminal operations in the night hours”, Comrade Emmanuel Ekong, a youth activist, told theGazetteNGR correspondent who visited the crime scene.

“Several female students of the nearby University of Uyo, bound by Eka street, have complained of being raped, with their phones, laptops and cash seized,” he said.

His mutilated remains were still being evacuated by law enforcement agents at the entrance to Effiong Udo Akpan street, near the property where the robbery event occurred, at the time of reporting this story.

Odiko Macdon, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), has advised youths and vigilante groups against jungle justice, threatening to pursue anyone responsible for the state’s lynching of criminal suspects.

“Jungle justice has no place in the criminal justice system. Individuals have the right to arrest criminal suspects, but must hand them over to the Police for diligent investigation and proper prosecution,” he explained.

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