He is well-to-do, a top Senior Manager at the Pipelines and Products
Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
He can afford to buy any type of telephone handset or laptop for any
of his four sons. But this morning when Onyema Biringa (shown in
photo), who is based in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State in
South-South Nigeria, woke up, it was to prepare for the burial of his
first son, Chiadikobi, who was lynched yesterday by a mob for allegedly
stealing handsets and laptops.
The bereaved father, who alongside his family s still reeling from
shock, is seeking divine intervention over the cruel fate that has
befallen his beloved son. “I have handed over the murderers to God,” he
told a relative last night.
News Express reports that Chiadikobi and two other students
of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) believed to be his friends
were forcibly seized by a mob at Allu, an off campus suburb where they
lived, paraded naked, mercilessly beaten to death despite passionate
pleas, had their necks bedecked with used tyres preparatory to being
set ablaze.
The only one to be identified, Chiadikobi’s body has been taken to
his hometown, Umungwa, Obowo, in neighbouring Imo State, for burial
today.
Outrage has greeted his murder and that of the other victims of the
jungle justice. Writing on Facebook, one of his relatives, Okonkwo
Queen, said: My eyes are filled with tears. My dear brother may your
soul rest in peace.”
Source News Express

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