The Ondo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of two suspects who allegedly stoned a motorist, Olorunfemi Tope to death.
This was made known by the spokesperson of the police command, Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya on Tuesday April 11.
“Yes, two suspects were arrested by our detectives. They are in our custody.”
The spokesperson explained that the two suspects were among those who carried out jungle justice against Tope on Ijoka road in Akure, the capital of the state.
He said the police would charge them with arson and murder.
He advised members of the public not to take laws into their hands.
“As of now, no one can confirm if the dead young man in question was an internet fraudster,” he said on a radio programme in Akure.
“Rather than people around to have helped when the accident happened, some resolved to jungle justice by killing the young man and setting his car ablaze.
“We need to refrain from engaging in jungle justice, shun hearsay and report any incident to the nearby police station, so there will be peace in our community.”
As earlier reported by The Informant247, Olorunfemi Tope used his car to crush four persons to death and inflict injury on others in Akure, Ondo State.
This happened in the Ijoka area of the town on Monday, April 10, 2023.
Those who witnessed the scenario said the man who was driving a Toyota car was driving at a high speed when his car suddenly skidded off its lane and killed the victims.
Some of the victims who were on commercial motorcycles lost their lives immediately.
Report has it that the said driver was coming from his friends from Ijoka.
Those who moved close to the affected scene allegedly saw some diabolical items in his car, which made them suspected that he was an internet fraudster otherwise known as yahoo boy.
Angered by the fetish items they saw in his car, they mercilessly best him and set his car on fire.
A source that witnessed the scenario said: “The mob action was due to the driver’s attitude after the incident because he showed no sign of remorse and attempted to run away from the scene of the accident.”
The operatives of the state police command reached the affected area and rescued the driver from the angry mob.
The police operatives took the victims’ dead bodies to the morgue.