He is well-to-do, a top Senior Manager at the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
He can afford to buy any type of telephone handset or laptop for any of his four sons. But this morning when Onyema Biringa (shown in photo), who is based in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State in South-South Nigeria, woke up, it was to prepare for the burial of his first son, Chiadikobi, who was lynched yesterday by a mob for allegedly stealing handsets and laptops.
The bereaved father, who alongside his family s still reeling from shock, is seeking divine intervention over the cruel fate that has befallen his beloved son. “I have handed over the murderers to God,” he told a relative last night.
News Express reports that Chiadikobi and two other students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) believed to be his friends were forcibly seized by a mob at Allu, an off campus suburb where they lived, paraded unclad, mercilessly beaten to death despite passionate pleas, had their necks bedecked with used tyres preparatory to being set ablaze.
The only one to be identified, Chiadikobi’s body has been taken to his hometown, Umungwa, Obowo, in neighbouring Imo State, for burial today.
Outrage has greeted his murder and that of the other victims of the jungle justice. Writing on Facebook, one of his relatives, Okonkwo Queen, said: My eyes are filled with tears. My dear brother may your soul rest in peace.”
Common sense is indeed not common.
Posted: at 7-10-2012 05:51 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
henry1973 at 7-10-2012 08:07 PM (12 years ago) (m)
Let the family of the boys join together and fight the key player of the execution,there are enough evidence to bring them to book. Let the involve human right lawyers association of Nigeria .i will personally send the barbaric act to the world through 32 world leading news stand.this story must find it way to the table of the IG's office.
Posted: at 7-10-2012 08:07 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
even if he did not hand them over to the GOD , what else can he do? lets call a spade a spade, its not just handset and laptop those bad boys stole, but has been torments the neighborhood for quite long now in roberry and molestations of the residents, its their pay back day , and thats that
Posted: at 7-10-2012 09:40 PM (12 years ago) | Grande Master
even if he did not hand them over to the GOD , what else can he do? lets call a spade a spade, its not just handset and laptop those bad boys stole, but has been torments the neighborhood for quite long now in roberry and molestations of the residents, its their pay back day , and thats that
SHUT UP, tell me u hv not stole a tin b4 ?
Posted: at 7-10-2012 10:24 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie
even if he did not hand them over to the GOD , what else can he do? lets call a spade a spade, its not just handset and laptop those bad boys stole, but has been torments the neighborhood for quite long now in roberry and molestations of the residents, its their pay back day , and thats that
Do u know them before, why do u talk like u met with them before. Look those guys killed were innocent. They were only fighting a guy that was owing one of them. But four guys to one person the guy started screaming thieves thieves and before u know it, they were been chase by the mob and killed. Without giving them the chance to explain their selves
Posted: at 7-10-2012 10:46 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
even if he did not hand them over to the GOD , what else can he do? lets call a spade a spade, its not just handset and laptop those bad boys stole, but has been torments the neighborhood for quite long now in roberry and molestations of the residents, its their pay back day , and thats that
Do u know them before, why do u talk like u met with them before. Look those guys killed were innocent. They were only fighting a guy that was owing one of them. But four guys to one person the guy started screaming thieves thieves and before u know it, they were been chase by the mob and killed. Without giving them the chance to explain their selves. That is what I was told by an eye witness ok. So stop calling them thieves
Posted: at 7-10-2012 10:49 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
Unikpearl at 7-10-2012 10:51 PM (12 years ago) (f)
People take laws into their hands in naija...hmmm,even jesus said to d pharises"let d person that have never sinned cast d stone first" during d adulterous woman case.
Posted: at 7-10-2012 10:51 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Unikpearl at 7-10-2012 10:55 PM (12 years ago) (f)
If at all those guys stole d laptops & phones i think beating & striping them naked is enough punishment for them...killing their fellow student in such a brutal way is inhuman
Posted: at 7-10-2012 10:55 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Do u know them before, why do u talk like u met with them before. Look those guys killed were innocent. They were only fighting a guy that was owing one of them. But four guys to one person the guy started screaming thieves thieves and before u know it, they were been chase by the mob and killed. Without giving them the chance to explain their selves
sharrrrrrrrrrrrrrap
Posted: at 7-10-2012 10:58 PM (12 years ago) | Grande Master
People take laws into their hands in naija...hmmm,even jesus said to d pharises"let d person that have never sinned cast d stone first" during d adulterous woman case.
Right on point
Common sense is indeed not common.
Posted: at 7-10-2012 11:32 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
greenlocks at 8-10-2012 12:23 AM (12 years ago) (m)
@ajani or watever your name is you are obviously a numskull spitting shit from your foul opening called mouth! How dare you! Peharps I pray your brother or any of your close relative or even your son(if you ever have 1) is set up and killed this way so you know the import of your misguided words! I will never forget the words of my friend Timi in 2008 who said having lived in portharcourt for a long time "an ikwere man is the most wicked man you will ever meet in this world", now I look back and I see he was right! But I tell you the spirits of those young men will never rest in peace bcos they will forever torment the people of that community! I don't believe they ever stole anytin! That community is finished!
Posted: at 8-10-2012 12:23 AM (12 years ago) | Newbie
de-maiden at 8-10-2012 01:14 AM (12 years ago) (f)
As for me I won't have mercy on an armed robbers cos I was attacked on d 1st of oct @ gun point collectd ma fones rthat of ma frd his car laptop, atm card and ipad the wicked will neva go unpunish simpleeee
Posted: at 8-10-2012 01:14 AM (12 years ago) | Newbie
Do u know them before, why do u talk like u met with them before. Look those guys killed were innocent. They were only fighting a guy that was owing one of them. But four guys to one person the guy started screaming thieves thieves and before u know it, they were been chase by the mob and killed. Without giving them the chance to explain their selves
you are a bloody liar , maybe you are the fith one that escaped so
Posted: at 8-10-2012 06:09 AM (12 years ago) | Grande Master
even if he did not hand them over to the GOD , what else can he do? lets call a spade a spade, its not just handset and laptop those bad boys stole, but has been torments the neighborhood for quite long now in roberry and molestations of the residents, its their pay back day , and thats that
if U̶̲̥̅̊ wanna comment on any story, make sure U̶̲̥̅̊ know what really happened b4 commenting. I'm sure U̶̲̥̅̊ r not educated, considering U̶̲̥̅̊я use of english.
Posted: at 8-10-2012 07:43 AM (12 years ago) | Newbie
i can see that you are an idiot right from the beginning , and you will remain so till the coming of jesus, onye kpaa
Wow happy to hear u call JESUS, so u believe that JESUS CHRIST is coming back. Praise thou living God. All muslims will soon turn to christian in JESUS NAME AMEN.
Posted: at 8-10-2012 12:31 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
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