The group gave the police 72 hours to fish out the vigilantes responsible for the jungle justice.
A human rights group, Talakawa’s Parliament has condemned the extrajudicial killing of 5 Nigerians allegedly accused of kidnapping in the Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State by some members of Owan East Vigilante Group.This was disclosed at the weekend in a press release signed by the Speaker and Spiritual Leader Marxist of the group, Kola Edokpayi, and Secretary, Comrade Imasuen Wilson Osawaru.
The statement read, “The five Nigerians that were later discovered to be labourers were arrested, beaten and burnt to death by some members of a local vigilante group and hunters who accused the kidnap suspects of being responsible for the series of kidnappings at Otuo-Afuze Road, Owan East Local Government Area, even when they were not found with arms allegedly used for the kidnapping operation. We are yet to know the person that was allegedly kidnapped.
Talakawa’s Parliament described the killing of the five labourers as jungle justice and genocide which must be condemned by rational people.
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