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, 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 few days ago by a mob for allegedly stealing
handsets and laptops.
The bereaved father, who alongside his family is 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
yesterday. 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."
News Express
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