When the news went viral yesterday, it was reported that
they were accused of stealing phones and laptops and were beaten to death.
However, other accounts of the incident have emerged.
Some people claimed the students were actually cultists who
terrorized the community and at the time they were caught, they had dangerous
weapons on them.
On Twitter, someone using the handle @Penny_sugababe who
says she stays in Port Harcourt recounted her view of the incident. Although a
search for her original tweets shows that her account has either been deleted
or suspended (or probably it was just my internet connection), her tweets were
retweeted several times.
She started by saying “Gosh! So because the criminals that
were killed in PH today were cute, people are calling it injustice…Smh…
Nigerians sha”
Then she continued with more tweets which have been trending
on Twitter
She concluded with more tweets saying “They chose a wrong
path and they knew the end…. Did they expect an angry mob to pat dem on dia
backs and give them ice-cream? Oh please”
“Good night folks, pray for your loved ones, never to join a
wrong crowd or be misguided. The fate of those boys…. It is well.”
She received quite a bashing for her tweets anyway. But I
came across a similar witness account on a site called Date360. This was
reportedly written by a student:
The Students involved are Cultists, They went to attack
someone, they were about 5 in number, so on their way out, A girl saw them and
screamed, these alerted people and they attacked them.. One of them escaped and
the remaining 4 were caught with Weapons and beaten by a man , Hitting them
Mercilessly and bringing them to a slow and painful death.. The man later Got
Fuel and poured it in their mouth and lit it., Burning one student!, The man
was stopped with the arrival of the police so he couldn’t burn the rest, they
were later taken to the mortuary where the families of the deceased Came to claim
the corpse…
More reports have claimed that the boys were killed by one
man. While looking at the pictures, I noticed one particular man holding an
insanely big stick over a boy’s head who
was already weak, bloody and pleading for his life. I saw the man in another
picture putting a tyre across another boy’s neck.
I hope this helps the police in their investigations. The
governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi has reportedly ordered the immediate
arrest of the killers of the students.
What baffles me is that this act was carried out in broad
day light and in the midst of so many people. Were the boys’ sins so grievous
that no one could stop the men who were beating them up?
I think not just the state governor, but the President has
to intervene in this case. Despite what they might have done, this sort of
jungle justice, beating young men to death on the streets in the midst of
everyone including children just doesn't sound right.
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