Chinwe Biringa, mother of Chiadika, one of the four undergraduate students of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, who were lynched on Friday for allegedly stealing laptops and BlackBerry phones in Aluu community has said that policemen were present during the killings.
Chinwe who spoke in a telephone interview during a public affairs programme on Channels Television on Wednesday said she was disappointed with the way and manner the policemen looked on and did nothing to stop the gruesome murder of the four boys.
She said, “Eyewitnesses accounts revealed that policemen were at the scene of the incident. Besides, policemen at the police station confirmed to one of the bereaved parents who visited them that policemen were there.
“And the explanation they gave was that they were overwhelmed by the crowd and that they had insufficient bullets in their guns and all that thrash to confront the crowd.
“But those people were only with sticks not with guns. If they really wanted to work they would have worked. If they had done what the Joint Task Force did by firing warning shots into the air when they wanted to collect the corpses, things wouldn’t have gone awry.”
While insisting that the four murdered boys were not robbers, Chinwe said, “We don’t have security in this country. We don’t just have and our children and wards are all over the country. We are only living by God’s grace everyday, because this can happen to anybody any day.
“God knows best because nothing stops Him from doing something extraordinary to save them. But may God judge all those who had a hand in the killings.”
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SO UNFORTUNATE, EVEN IF THEY WERE ARMED ROBBERS.......... WHICH THEY ARE NOT, HMMMMM MY HEART FELT SYMPATHY TO THE PARENTS.
ReplyDelete@ Anon 1, Not only the parents of the victims should push for laws making jungle justice a crime. We should all push for the laws, this thing can happen to anyone. In fact, I think its already illegal to kill someone.
ReplyDeleteIt is only in African countries that human beings are killed for stealing, which I personally doubt in this case. Some people have got to pay dearly for this barbaric act. So disappointed in the entire community for not saving these guys. They need to go to God in prayers cos they cursed already. May God comfort the parents and relatives of the deceased.
ReplyDeleteThe death of these handsome guys' are unbearable till thy kingdom come, if people can be so wicked to this extend why can't they face boko haram or the bad government that are causing more harm to the country, too sad, unending sadness
ReplyDelete"Nothing stops God from doing something extraordinary to save them" that is d most beuatiful words of faith coming from one of d affected mothers,nothing except fate pls convey this to mothers of d others God will console them.pls while making dfft cmm don't let us forget d lesson of this incident, they went to ask for debt around 4 am or there about,went wt a cultist (what relationship) that had a gun,pls parents watch ur children.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous 11:25AM:You made my day with your reasonable contribution.
ReplyDeleteI'm not happy with the way these young Nigerians were kill,this is National sad occurrence.
In any adverse case of national interest like this,we should draw lessons.This mother that made the comment: "Nothing stops God from doing something extraordinary to save them" is a good Christian.One of the onlookers at the scene can just raise a word for the killer and the action may be stalled and what of the Police officers with the gun & bullets?In fact,this woman has said it all,God knows the best.
The time they went to the village is odd and the cultist that held gun is somehow.May God give them eternal rest!
Think we should go beyond that and ask why the community has been suffering rapes, robberies etc without protection that enabled barbaric people to take over the policing of that community. I would also wonder why our political leaders are praised by their people for stealing or looting the treasury but a regular person who steals a phone gets lynched? Unfortunately for these lycnhers they did not this time murder a poor student or an umemployed nobody's child and it is also on video and so the publicity is making the authorities to respond, until they people move on to another issue. Thr truth is that we do not value the life, apart from our loved ones. We all know that this has always been happening so I am baffled why we are acting like it only happened for the first time. Once again the world smirks at another shameful story out of nigeria.
ReplyDeleteOh my hrt is bleeding!!!
ReplyDeleteD Aluu community have triggered God's anger whom death and life is in his hand. WOE TO U ELDERS OF ALUU,D SWORD WILL NEVER DEPART FROM UR LAND, U ARE COURSED. Ur tenth generation must xperience ur aborminable act. These words must come to pass but if not I better quit from serving God, but I know dat my God answereth broken hearted prayers.
ReplyDeleteIt's so sadonic
ReplyDeleteEvrybdy is busy babbling. Why're we screaming? We're just reaping the benefits of our deeds. Hw many of us who read this message are of good heart, I mean of moral conscience. We are all terrible evil bots, d anger of God is fiercely upon us. This is just but the Genesis of doom, a tip of d iceberg. Till d whole nation which hs bn proliferatd wt evil @ all levels go back 2 God in repentance, our land wil not b healed. Look around U, check d headlines, the story's always same- evil protrusions evry here nd there, not a new thing again. It will get 2 evrybody. Nobody and noplace is safe, blv me or not. Is it d north,'boko haram', east,'flood and kidnap', west,'flood', robbery, maimings, the list continues. Grace of God is nomore wt us. Is either we're saved or we're not saved. Sodom nd Gomorrah is nw far better than us. It's better we go bk 2 God in repentance so dat the biblical Revelation wld b averted. Love and compassion is no more the rules, moral conscience is now dead. ONLY JAH HIMSELF CAN SAVE US FROM DIS MADNESS ELSE WE'RE A DOOMED GENE
ReplyDeletechris kemistri:, am shot of words after seein d video on hw those guys were killed y dis guys naaaaaaaa(crying)
ReplyDeletechris kemistri:, am shot of words after seein d video on hw those guys were killed y dis guys naaaaaaaa(crying)
ReplyDeleteam shot of words after seein d video on how those guys were killed, y dese guys naaaaaaa(crying)
ReplyDeleteThis is a God-forsaken country where politicians steal billions and receive National Honours while ordinary innocent Nigerians are being butchered under the supervision of policemen who are paid for poor people's taxes. Stupid country. The new law should be called ALUU ACTS and the jail term should be 40 years with hard labour. It is NANS that are in a better position to push for such a law. May God butcher and murder all our rulers, the same way those boys were butchered. Amen.
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