By Adadareporters
CP Aderemi Adeoye, Anambra State Police Commissioner, Friday, described perpetrators of mob actions against suspected criminals in the state as murderers.
The CP further said the statePolice Command would not condone ‘the reckless resort to jungle justice by anyone or group in the state’,
He was reacting to the arrest of two suspects over their alleged involvement in mob action recently. He described any mob that lynches crime suspects as ‘beasts’. According to him, ‘such group who resort to jungle justice are worse than the suspects they lynch’.
Quoting him, “Someone steals a phone and a mob kills him. The sentence for stealing a phone is three years’ imprisonment. Those who lynch commit murder which carries the death penalty as the courts have not delegated anyone outside the judiciary to try, convict and execute suspects.”
The CP, who spoke in a release by the state PPRO, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, advised aggrieved persons to take their cases to the police.
He assured the people of Anambra State that the command would ‘always be alive to its responsibility in maintaining law and order’.
