99 days for the thief: Mob forces suspects to eat raw pepper, dance with stolen items

A increasing inclination of nationalist humiliation for suspected thieves is spreading crossed Nigeria, with viral societal media videos showing alleged offenders being subjected to degrading punishments alternatively of being handed implicit to the police.

While specified incidents person been reported successful antithetic parts of the country, the inclination appears to beryllium peculiarly communal successful parts of the South-South, particularly successful Benin City, Edo State, and Asaba, Delta State, wherever respective videos of suspected thieves being publically shamed, beaten oregon forced into degrading acts person surfaced successful caller months.

The trend, which galore societal media users person dubbed “99 days for the thief 1 time for the owner,” has generated mixed reactions, with immoderate Nigerians describing the punishments arsenic deserved deterrents against rising theft, portion others pass that they magnitude to jungle justness and interruption the law.

One of the latest videos making the rounds online shows 2 young men accused of stealing a container of caller capsicum being forced to devour the earthy capsicum portion washing them down with adust gin.

In the footage, the brace were seen seated connected the crushed beside the allegedly stolen container of capsicum arsenic onlookers ordered them to devour the blistery peppers, an enactment that has since triggered thousands of reactions crossed societal media platforms.

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