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The story of the Aluu Four lynching that happened on 5th October 2012.

All you need to know about the incident

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The Aluu 4 lynching was a necklace lynching that involved four young men, Ugonna, Favour, Chiadika and Mike.
They were all first sons of their parents and students of the University of Port Harcourt.
They were all lynched after they were falsely accused of theft in Aluu, a community in Obio/Akpor local government area, Rivers State, on 5th October 2012.
According to reports, the four boys visited the house of their debtor to collect their debt, the debtor was not yielding to the voice of reason so they decided to take and confiscate some items belonging to the debtor and took the items with them.
The debtor raised an alarm that the boys were thieves who have broken into his house and stolen his properties and are going away with the items.
Neighbors and passers-by sprung into action, chased the boys down, and started beating them without giving room for the boys to share their side of the story.
They tore their clothes, paraded them around the neighborhood naked, beat the boys until they were too weak to run or even speak before setting them ablaze, labeling them as thieves and secret cult members who have been terrorizing the neighborhood.
The lynching was widely viewed in Nigeria and the rest of the world. The crime further exposed the "jungle justice" or "mob justice"' which was still prevalent in Nigeria, as well as exposed some loopholes in Nigeria's law enforcement system.
Several people were arrested in connection with the crime.
On July 31 2017, 4 years and 9 months after the horrid incident, Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt sentenced to death a Police Sergeant,
Mr. Lucky Orji, David Chinasa Ogbada and Ikechukwu Louis Amadi, (aka Kapoon) for their active involvement in the murder of the four students of University of Port Harcourt.
The court also discharged and acquitted four of the suspects in the trial, Saviour Johnny, Abiodun Yusuf, Joshua Ekpe and Cyril Abang.
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