Pandemonium
ensued today in
Iwo, Iwo East
Local Council
Development
Authority of Osun
as irate mob
attempted to
lynch a
suspected
female
kidnapper.
The suspect was
said to have
made attempt to
kidnap a girl in
the heart of the city but was chased and caught
up with by residents.
However, attempts to carry out instant lynching
of the suspect was said to have bee resisted by
the traditional ruler of the city, Oba
AbdulRasheed Adewale Akanbi, who insisted
that the police must be allowed to do their job.
The action of the monarch was reported to have
angered the people especially the youths who
stormed the palace and made bonfires in front
and in the palace asking the monarch to allow
them kill the kidnapper.
The development had forced the traditional ruler
to invite the police who deployed his men to the
scene to quell the riot.
As at the time of filing this report, irate youths
and men of the police force were said to be
slugging it out with sporadic shootings renting
the air.
Details later…