Police warn against Jungle Justice after suspect beaten to death in Calabar 

The Cross River State Police Command has warned residents against taking the instrumentality into their ain hands pursuing the mob sidesplitting of a suspected burglar successful Calabar South.

The incidental occurred connected Friday on Ikom Street, wherever a middle-aged man, whose individuality had yet to beryllium established astatine property time, was allegedly beaten to decease by an aggravated mob.

The deceased was reportedly caught aft allegedly breaking into a woman’s residence successful the aboriginal hours of Friday with the volition of stealing and sexually assaulting her.

Her cries for assistance attracted neighbours and different tenants, who apprehended the suspect, dragged him into the thoroughfare and assaulted him until helium died.

Reacting to the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Eitokpah Sunday Akata, condemned the act, stressing that mob justness remains unlawful and undermines owed process.

He urged members of the nationalist to manus implicit suspects to the constabulary for due probe and prosecution alternatively of resorting to violence.

“What if the idiosyncratic killed was not the existent perpetrator but a unfortunate of mistaken identity? By the clip the information emerges, it would already beryllium excessively late. Many guiltless persons person fallen unfortunate to jungle justice.

“The nationalist indispensable desist from specified unlawful acts,” Akata said.

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