Sunday 7 October 2012

UNIPORT ALUU 4 KILLING!!!








Note: I got this story from Naija Book.com

It was a typical Friday until about 6pm when my friend in Uniport pinged me to say it had happened again!! What had happened I asked? And he said he’d fill me in he had heard his friend Big El had been killed in Aluu village..Wow!
He was obviously shaken, but then I noticed on my bbm that a friend was very angry and agitated and this was by about late Friday…She was very angry and crying a lot, I heard about the guys too but was not that vexed. What I didn’t know is that she had seen the video which i have not. So I made efforts to investigate, she said her cousin was there in uniport and he was in town, he had fed her the information and given her some pictures and she had seen the video. This news wasn’t even full blown then…
     Next question,what happened?? She sourced for information and apparently some guys accused of theft were already burnt in Aluu village a couple miles from Port Harcourt metropolis…By now it was already gaining steam online and a few comments on it.Luckily he contacted her “Ahhhh they were not thieves o” he said, victims of circumstance again. Then he began to  narrate
    These guys were cultists, they went to look for someone from a rival gang and he wasn’t around so they sat outside his house to wait for him and then rolled up weed and started smoking, this was obviously a  bad decision as this probably was what drew the attention of certain villagers who alerted the vigilantes that suspected thieves were in the area..Fast forward 10mins the vigilantes came and questioned them and found some mobile phones a laptop and some crude weapons, notably knives and cutlasses..”i don’t know if they had any gun o” he said and then they started beating these guys mercilessly, in no time there was a mob and these guys were being  inhumanely beaten and planked and they even had to agree to being robbers  out of immense pain just as a last hope of being freed or taken to the police….but after immense torture they were burnt to death as onlookers were watching in silence. They were but  victims of circumstance and even if they were robbers would it have been right to punish mere theft with such a gruesome murder?? I pondered about this as I was watching “Young People who kill” a program on E! and I saw serial killers get away with sentences such as 25 to life in jail. Even convicted murderers were not burnt this way in the western world!! Little wonder we are generally seen as barbaric because of these crude acts committed in the 21st century!! A certain popular blogger had already started justifying these killings and she made no effort to research about it CALLING THEM THIEVES!

This Sunday morning I  got a broadcast messadge from a friend who knew Big El in Port Hacourt and it read thus “People don't even understand how this world works, whether they did wrong or right, blood has been spilled and that blood must be avenged! So even all these people putting mouth in what they don't know have to be really careful lest they put themselves and their families on the list!

 From A Friend To The Victims. ”
So to those tagging them as robbers,rapists and what not I have one question for y’all is murder justifiable?? What happened to our judicial system and the right to a fair hearing? What happened to our penal system? What happened to the police force?? Even if they robbed did they burn anyone? We are swift to judge as Nigerians what a pity!!!

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