In what can be described as jungle justice, a mob in Magama-Gumau town in Toro LGA of Bauchi State on Sunday beat a suspected motorcycle thief to death.
Timely Post gathered that the young man whose identity could not be immediately ascertained was noticed in the afternoon of 17th March, loitering around a Mosque in the town being the market day.
He was said to have forcefully broke the lock of a motorcycle parked and started moving it away from the point around the Mosque.
Unfortunately for him, the owner of the motorcycle was said to have sighted him from inside the Mosque, ran out and chased after him shouting “barawo, barawo” (Thief, thief).
At the hearing of the shout, people chased and caught up with him though he abandoned the stolen motorcycle and tried to escaped from the scene.
The source said that because it was a market of the town, a mob quickly gathered holding planks and other objects with which he was hit several times until he died from the beating.
Before Police operatives could arrived the scene, the mob had disappeared leaving him dead in a pool of his own blood.
The Police later evacuated the body and deposited it at the morgue of Toro General hospital while no arrest had been made as of the time of filling this report on Monday.
Efforts to get official confirmation from the State Police Command proved abortive as the PPRO, SP Ahmed Wakili neither picked up the phone nor respond to the sms and whatsapp messages sent to his mobile number as of the time of filling this report on Monday.
