A suspected kidnapper was saved from being lynched by an angry mob in Oba-Ile, Akure north local government area of Ondo state.
It is the latest in the several kidnappings in the state, where residents now resort to burning suspected kidnappers to death in contravention of the law.
But the timely intervention of men of the Nigerian police saved the life of the suspected kidnapper from jungle justice.
Cases of kidnapping for ritual purpose in Nigeria have become a regular occurrence; with Ondo state recording its own share of the crime fast becoming a misnomer in the country. The latest of such kidnapping case occurred on Friday 9th of May 2014 in Oba-Ile, Akure north local government area of the state when a young lady in her late twenties was caught trying to lure a pupil of Saint Paul Primary School away. The young lady was subsequently taken to the palace of the Oba to prevent her from being lynched.
One of the eyewitnesses said that she acted like a mad woman but upon was interrogation she later confessed and that they were about carrying out jungle justice on her before the police came to save the day and indeed her life from the irate mob.
But some residents besieged the palace expressing anger over being prevented from carrying out jungle justice on the alleged kidnapper by men of the Nigerian police.
After more than an hour of the siege, men of the Nigeria Police Force succeeded in taking the lady from the palace by shooting tear gas canisters and rubber bullets to scare the crowd away.
However what remains of great concern to the people of the community is whether justice will take its course at the end of the day.
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