Two unidentified persons were stoned to death in the Sabo, Yaba
area of Lagos State after being apprehended by youths for allegedly
robbing a resident of his phones.
The alleged robbers
attacked a 79-year-old man, Pa Emmanuel Thomas, in his apartment around
4am on Saturday.
The elderly man said that the robbers beat up his guest and demanded that he gave them all his money.
He said,
“I was in my room and a guest was in my sitting room. But because there
was no electricity, I opened the main doors for cross ventilation. A
few minutes later, two young guys barged into the house.
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“One
of them slapped my female guest who was in the sitting room and
snatched her phone and charger, the other guy told me to give him all my
money and I told him all I had was N30 which was kept inside my Bible.
They also snatched my telephone and wristwatch.”
It
was learnt that prior to the robbery, youths in the area had been
suspicious of the alleged robbers, wondering what the strange men wanted
on their street at that odd hour.
One of the youths, who craved anonymity, said, “Around
3.30am, I was returning from a carnival when I noticed two strange
faces on Little Road. When the guys saw me, they pretended to be fixing
an abandoned bus and were talking as if they were a bus driver and his
conductor waiting for daybreak.
“When
I walked past, they continued to roam the street, so I informed one of
my friends and together, we tailed them. Suddenly, they entered Pa
Thomas’s house and then I heard the elderly man screamed for help.
“We
quickly surrounded the house and dared the robbers to come out. When
they saw that they were trapped, one of them jumped the fence into the
next compound which is on Little Road. I was able to arrest one, while
the other one escaped.”
It was learnt that the arrested robber was beaten up to a pulp.
It
was also learnt that an hour later, the second robber, who hid inside
another compound, was exposed by a resident and was also handed over to
the irate youths.
The youths were said to have beaten up the two robbers mercilessly.
When our correspondent asked the residents why they did not involve the police, one of them said,
“On that day, there was a serious crisis at a neighbouring community,
Iwaya, and most of the policemen from Sabo Division had diverted all
their attention to the area.
“Also,
these robbers usually hang around a brothel located on a neighbouring
street. If we hand them over to the police, they will be released and
come back to terrorise us.”
It
was learnt that the alleged robbers, who were still alive, were stripped
naked and dumped on the Sabo end of the Herbert Macaulay Way, about 200
metres from the Sabo Police Division.
It was, however, learnt that passers-by pelted the alleged robbers with stones until they died.
A resident of McNeil, Sola, said, “It
was not our intention to kill the robbers, we only beat them up and
dumped them by the road side. However, when passers-by learnt of what
they had done, many of them picked up rocks and stoned them to death.”
It was learnt that by the time policemen arrived around 9am, the alleged robbers were already dead.
Attempts
to contact the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi
Braide, were not sucessful as calls made to her telephone rang out,
while a text message sent to the phone was also not replied as of the
time of going to the press.
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