This is really sad and can help us understand why it’s difficult to
stop an angry mob bent of carrying out their execution. It’s crazy
because reading this I can definitely believe how she must’ve been
helpless in trying to explain to them.
Apparently, the police was there when this happened also, which is
also in line with Mrs Baringa’s story.Very sad when human life can’t
even be protected by the police. So what’s the use of having the police
there?
Just read below. Courtesy of the Daily Sun:Miss Ibisobia Elkanah, elder sister
of Tekena Friday Elkanah, revealed yesterday that policemen visited the
scene where the students were burnt to death after they were severely
injured and that one of the law enforcement agents told the perpetrators
of the dastardly act “to burn them alive”
The murdered students, Chiadika
Lordson, Ugonna Kelechi Obusor, Mike Lloyd Toku, and Tekena Elkanah, all
part two students, were murdered in cold blood over alleged theft of a
laptop computer and a blackberry phone. Ibisobia, a part-time final year
student of Marketing, at the same university who witnessed the
incident, said on that fateful day, at about 7.30 am, she was at the
house of her girl friend in the community when she heard people shouting
outside. “I dashed out and beckoned on my friend to come since she
lived in the area.
The thing attracted much noise and
attention. I went there but did not actually see or recognize any of
them, due to the crowd. “I heard when people were saying the people they
(vigilance group) caught were strangers; that they want to burn them.
They said they were asking them
questions, so that they could know their senders.” She said after that,
she went back to her friend’s house, but could not stay there. “I went
back again. I went through the bush path so that I could see them
properly. I started jumping to see if I could see them. I jumped again
but saw nothing. I jumped the second time and I saw Tekena. Tekena
happened to be my brother. “I told myself that I was not seeing well,
this thing is a lie. I jumped
the third time, I saw Lloyd (one of the
victims). So, I started shouting.
From what I gathered, the first time I
came, they said they were not known; that they were strangers. As I
identified them, I started shouting. Ibisobia said she continued
shouting that Tekena was her brother, saying that he came to her on
Thursday in school and she gave him his school fees. “I told them that
somebody should allow me to ask him what happened and what he came to
do. He would confide in me. He was wailing and in a pool of blood.”
“Tekena has been my younger brother
for many years. I saw them as they lay in the water naked with leaves
covering their nakedness.” His elder sister said she struggled and
entered the crowd. Somebody shouted “Who is that? What is she doing
inside?” “People were pushing me and I started crying. He is my brother!
He is not a thief! Somebody behind me said O’girl run for your life.
About two persons turned and asked,
are you sure he is your brother, and said may be I was the person that
sent him to go and steal.” Ibisobia replied them that how could she send
him, that she did not look as such. ‘They said I should run for my life
that I would be the next one, fifth person.” The young lady lamented
that before she could get to her friend’s room to call her family
members, she learnt that the mob had taken them to the burrow pit. “So, I
went there again.
I called my family and they started
coming. The police van came, went into the mob and they were talking to
them (youths). The people kept quiet as police were making statements.
“I heard them laughing. You know, they were happy. They kept quiet
again. Police talked and they laughed again. The next was for me to see
three policemen coming out of the mob, boarded their van. And, one of
the said “burn them alive”. “I must confess, I was gripped with fear.
I had the intention to talk to the
man that said they should be burnt alive. As soon as they (police) drove
off, I saw the flames. I was thinking they burnt them after they had
killed them. Later, I discovered that they were burnt while they were
alive.
Source: TheDailySun
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