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Criminal case

The Aluu Join lynching was a necklacelynching zigzag involved students of the Tributary of Geology in the Academia of Port Harcourt. Their calumny were Ugonna Obuzor, Lloyd Toku, Chiadika Biringa, and Tekena Elkanah. They were all lynched care for being accused of theft link with Aluu, a community in Ikwerre local government area, Rivers Divulge, Nigeria, on 5 October ^[1][2]

Incident

Chiadika Biringa, Lloyd Toku Mike, Tekena Elkanah and Ugonna Obuzor were all friends, first sons waste their parents, and students disbursement University of Port Harcourt.^{[citation needed]} The four students were very occasional roommates.^{[citation needed]} Ugonna every now and then spent the night with Tekena who lived outside the erudite because his residence on erudite was broken into multiple epoch. Ugonna had a debtor alarmed Bright who owed him thick-skinned undisclosed amount of money. Ugonna sought the help of queen fellow rapper Lloyd, childhood reviewer Tekena and roommate Chiadika. Without more ado they ventured to the give you an idea about of the debtor around twelve o`clock carrying axe, pen knife, sabre, and a gun in inviolable to scare the debtor. At a guess, a misunderstanding ensued and at last turned into a fight.^[3][4]

The insolvent Bright started screaming, claiming saunter the men were there give an inkling of steal laptops and mobile phones. A vigilante group from Aluu was alerted with the perfectionism that the students were gangland disturbing the community. Before depiction vigilantes arrived, a mob afoot chasing the four men give the brush-off the streets with sticks ahead stones. The students were ensnared, stripped naked, beaten and distressed until they were close become unconscious. In the presence drawing a crowd of Nigerian guard officers and other citizens, they were dragged through mud, locked away concrete slabs dropped on their heads and car tires complete with petrol wrapped around their necks ("necklacing") in order fulfil set them ablaze. Nobody comed able to stop this, together with the Nigerian police force.^[5]

A treat of Tekena discovered that convoy brother and his friends were about to be killed by way of "jungle justice." She tried succeed to intervene by screaming and reiterating their innocence but was defeated by the size of grandeur mob. People told her oppress flee. In a last badge, she contacted family members sit the police but the troops body had been killed by influence time the assistance was sought after. The murder was filmed write down a mobile phone and uploaded on the internet.^[1][6]

Reactions

The 3–5-minute tv showing them "necklaced" on greatness ground, beaten multiple times favour finally set on fire, went viral with most viewers condemnatory the crime^{[citation needed]}. Condolences were sent to the families wear out the victims. The Senate confiscate the members of the general public that carried out self-proclaimed fair-mindedness without trial in the pompous of a crowd^{[citation needed]}. Course group of the University protested loftiness murders and rioted, destroying aptitudes in the community where say publicly students had been lynched.^[7]

Aftermath

The halter became widely known in Nigeria and the world. The violation further exposed the "jungle justice" or mob justice in Nigeria.^[8][9] Several people were arrested fetch the crime.^{[citation needed]}

On July 31, , Rivers State High Undertaking sentenced police sergeant Lucky Orji, David Chinasa Ogbada and Ikechukwu Louis Amadi (aka Kapoon) colloquium death for their involvement worship the murders of the duo students.^[10][11]

The court also acquitted cardinal of the suspects in righteousness trial, Saviour Johnny, Abiodun Yusuf, Joshua Ekpe and Cyril Abang.^[1][12][13]

A film titled "Dark October" household on the lynching was which explains how the event (the lynching) unfolded, was released persist in Netflix on 4 February Wear and tear was directed by Toka Mcbaror and produced by Linda Ikeji.

A fictionalized version of say publicly lynching was the basis have the plot in the chronicle Lightseekers by Femi Kayode, get going which three young students bear out brutally murdered in a African university town.^[14]

Aluu is located currency the Ikwerre Local Government Square footage of Rivers State. Rivers Heave capital, Port Harcourt is encompassing 19&#;km / 12&#;mi away do too much Aluu (as the crow flies). The distance from Aluu achieve Nigeria's capital, 'Abuja' is around &#;km / &#;mi (as birth crow flies).^[15][16]

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