The eye witness said the passersby later pulled the suspected kidnapper out of the school premises and marched her to Offa Garage.
A suspected female
kidnapper was lynched and set ablaze by angry mob at Offa Garage area of Ilorin
on Monday. The woman had gone to fetch a set of twins from an Arabic school in
Kilanko area of Ilorin.
The woman had approached
the school on the pretext that their mother had asked her to pick up the twins
from the school.
A source in the Arabic school, who pleaded
anonymity, told newsmen that luck ran out of the suspected kidnapper when the
twins’ mother was contacted and she denied sending anybody to pick up her
children.
The source said the mother
of the twins hurriedly came to the school and confronted the woman. She
revealed that she did not send anybody to take custody of her twin.
Reports said efforts by residents around the
Arabic school to prevail on the mob to hand over the suspect to the police fell
on deaf ears.
The suspected kidnapper was
however lynched by the mob that set her on fire at about 11 a.m. At the scene
of the crime, charred remains of the lynched woman were still lying on the
road. When contacted, Kwara Police Public Relations Officer, Ajayi Okasanmi
confirmed the incident.
He told pressmen on phone that the police were
on the trail of persons responsible for the killing.
“Before we got the
information, the deed had been done and as we speak, policemen are already
there making efforts to arrest the culprits
. “I can assure you we are
going to do just that because it is lawless for people to take life of another
human no matter the offence,” Okasanmi said. The police spokesman, therefore,
warned residents to desist from taking laws into their hands by not indulging
in jungle justice.
Still jungle treatment is bad
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