March 31, (THEWILL) – The 16 travellers mobbed to loss of life in Uromi, Edo State had been buried on Saturday, in accordance with Muslim burial rites, amid extra reactions and condemnation by varied teams, people, state governments, spiritual organisations and members of the Nationwide Meeting.
On Sunday, the Chief of Defence Workers, Normal Chris Musa, lent his voice to requires calm and peace throughout the nation. He additionally condemned the killing of the travellers on a mere presumption that they had been kidnappers and pledged that the perpetrators of the crime will likely be dropped at justice.
There’s something in regards to the Uromi incident, one thing that arouses curiosity and requires an in depth investigation of the circumstances resulting in the homicide of the 16 travellers. There are gaps within the narrative that require filling and puzzles that should be solved.
In a nutshell, reviews claimed that the travellers, believed to be hunters, had been stopped in transit at Uromi by a vigilante group on their strategy to Kano from Rivers State.
The vigilante searched the truck conveying the hunters to their vacation spot, discovered dane weapons and concluded that they had been kidnappers on a mission to assault and abduct some harmless folks someplace.
Even because the travellers defined that they had been hunters heading to Kano to rejoice Eid el- Fitri with their family members, the vigilante group went forward, colluding with some faceless members of the general public, to lynch them.
Useless so as to add, the tragic incident has been broadly condemned throughout the nation, with many calling for justice for the deceased who had been clearly victims of ethnic profiling, which seems to have intensified these previous years. They had been mistaken for Fulani kidnappers.
President Bola Tinubu ordered an investigation into the incident and instructed the safety forces to fish out the killers of the travelling hunters.
As talked about earlier, there’s a want to handle sure puzzling points. For instance, how come the vigilante group swiftly concluded that the travelling hunters had been kidnappers? In that case, why did they not handover the hunters to the Police?
Maybe, the vigilante discovered one thing else they didn’t want to disclose to legislation enforcement brokers, one thing like a big sum of cash? And the cash triggered off the belief that they had been kidnappers? We imagine that solely an intensive and correct investigation of the incident can tie up these unfastened ends.
We additionally imagine that additional reactions to the killing ought to cease. Inciteful statements which have the capability to incite violent reprisals, particularly at a time Nigeria is battling with a number of challenges threatening her survival, may warmth up the polity.
Lower than 24 hours in the past, Kano State Police dispelled a hearsay circulating on social media platforms alleging an assault on an 18-seater bus carrying Igbo passengers. Such rumours will not be solely harmful but additionally able to destroying the delicate peace within the nation.
