
Two unidentified young middle-aged men were in the early hours of Monday set ablaze by an angry mob along Akai Effa road opposite Orange Resorts in Calabar Municipality LGA. the two victims were caught at about 4:00 am while robbing a barber’s shop very close to the popular resort.
An eyewitness, Miss Linda Akpan says that the duo has been terrorizing the area for months now but met their waterloo. She said:
“Boys in the neighbourhood decided to increase surveillance in the area and the vigilante caught them right in the act while they were trying to cart away the plasma television, generator amongst other things before they pounced on them.
“They made them call their people before setting them ablaze this morning to serve as a warning to others with the intention to do the same,”
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo who confirmed the incident warned residents not to take laws into their hands. Irene said:
unfortunate and a pathetic one, I don’t really understand why some people will want to continually live a life of crime even in the beginning of a new year, instead of thinking of more
productive things to do. “But the public must understand that it is, wrong to take laws into their hands, they should always hand such people to the police for justice to take its cause,”
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