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Suspected Ritualist Mobbed As Police Rescue 2

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CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

Visibly angry residents set a suspected ritualist ablaze in Lagos and attempted to mob two other accomplices before the police intervened and rescued the situation.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that this was disclosed by the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, CSP Chike Oti, in a release on behalf of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Edgal Imohimi.

On 27th August, 2018, the police received information that a woman, later identified as Folake Falade, of Mosafejo-Ilogbo, Badagry, Lagos, was found inside a tunnel, under the Cele Nicer Bridge, Ijanikin, Lagos with a decomposing human body.

The discovery attracted an irate mob that nearly lynched the suspected ritualist but for the quick intervention of a contingent of policemen drafted from Ijanikin Divisional Police Headquarters, as they raced to the scene.

The rescue team thereafter searched the tunnel and arrested one Emmanuel Gbenga, believed to be an accomplice of the suspected female ritualist while the third suspect who escaped from the tunnel to avoid being arrested was caught by the irate mob who set him ablaze.

Meanwhile, the Lagos State  Commissioner of Police, CP Imohimi Edgal, has directed the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ijanikin to cordon off the scene and ensure that the remains found in the tunnel were not tampered with pending the arrival of police forensic experts expected at the scene for scientific examination of the corpse, the tunnel and other exhibits found therein.

The CP said that it was regrettable that despite the various town hall meetings he had in the State to sensitise communities  about the evil of  jungle justice, some people at Olorunshogo community constituted themselves into a mob and took laws into their hands by killing one of the suspects who might have been very useful in the ongoing investigations had they handed him over to the police.

 

 

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