The police in Ondo State, on Tuesday, said they had arrested two suspects who allegedly stoned a 35-year-old man, Olorunfemi Tope, to death in Akure.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that a mob on Monday stoned Tope to death after his alleged reckless driving caused an accident that resulted in the deaths of two people and injured six others.
The late Tope was said to have allegedly rammed into about five commercial motorcycles with their passengers along Ijoka Road, by Sunday bus stop in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
A mob had allegedly beaten and stoned the driver, Tope, to death and set his car ablaze.
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But the state police command spokesperson, SP Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, while appearing on a live radio programme on Tuesday, said police detectives had arrested two suspects over their alleged jungle justice meted out on Tope.
The programme, monitored by a NAN correspondent in Akure, quoted Odunlami-Omisanya as saying that one of the two arrested suspects allegedly masterminded the burning of Tope’s car.
The command’s image maker, who said the suspects would be charged in court for murder and arson, appealed to members of the public not to take the laws into their hands.
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