- Warns that Perpetrators would be charged for Murder
- Two Suspects Already Arrested
Anambra State Police Commissioner, CP Aderemi Adeoye has warned that the State Police Command will not condone the reckless resort to jungle justice by anyone or group in the State. A report released from Police Public Relations Officer , DSP Tochukwu Ikenga has said.
The Spokeperson said, “He described any mob that lynches Crime Suspects as beasts. Such group who resort to Jungle justice are worse than the suspects they lynch”.
Describing the incidence as someone steals a phone and a mob kills him. The sentence for stealing a phone is 3 years imprisonment. Those who lynch commits murder which carries the death penalty as the Courts have not delegated anyone outside the Judiciary to try, convict and execute suspects! the statement pointed out.
The Commissioner advised all aggrieved persons to take their cases to the Police and if they don’t get justice to contact his office directly instead of resolving to self help.
He assured the people of Anambra State that the Command will always be alive to its responsibility in maintaining law and order. Recourse to self help will not be tolerated.
