Residents of the Ethiope West Local Government Area’s Mosogar and Oghara towns have been reassured by the Delta State Police Command that the command is looking into the event that resulted in the mob killing of two young people who are allegedly accused of kidnapping.
The two young people were taken away, beaten, and set on fire by the mob in Mosogar last Thursday.
Speaking to reporters in Warri on Wednesday, SP Bright Edafe, the Delta State Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, stated that “the police are on the trail of the vigilante leader and community leader who masterminded the mob action.”
The police spokesperson stated that “three people were kidnapped by some lawless vigilante personnel from Mosogar who claimed to be kidnappers, but one of the boys escaped and was rescued after running to a nearby police station.”
According to the PPRO, a mob in Mosogar overcame the vigilante and burned the other two people alive.
“We are currently pursuing the vigilante leader and the community leader who orchestrated that act to ensure that they are held accountable,” he stated. We are taking this chance to urge locals to maintain their composure and to assure them that justice will be done.
Oghara Elite Forum, a sociocultural organization in Delta State, has strongly denounced the extrajudicial execution of the two young people in the community and called for prompt security agency action “to prevent the potential breakdown of law and order between the Oghara and nearby Mosogar Kingdoms.”
Additionally, it called on Christian Onogba, the chairman of the Ethiope West Local Government Area, “to promptly put a mechanism in place and prudently revisit the matter to calm already frayed nerves.”
The organization insisted that “the manner Mosogar youths raided Ijomi community in Oghara Kingdom, forcefully whisked the deceased suspects to Mosogar and allegedly slaughtered them extrajudiciously was condemnable” in a statement signed by its President-General, Dr. Jacob Ighere, following its extraordinary meeting in Oghara.
After that, it pleaded with the Delta State Commissioner of Police and the State Government’s special peace and conflict resolution agencies to guarantee justice in the case “as soon as possible before it degenerates into a communal war.”
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