Following the lynching of four students of the University of Port-Harcourt, River-state, the police have arrested Aluu community leader, Alhaji Hassan Walewa. The police on sunday stormed Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area, where the students were beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob.
Also arrested by security agents were members of Walewa's family and some student of the University who lived off campus.The community was deserted when security agents and soldiers stormed the area in search of those who killed the students on friday.
They claimed the students were robbers, but nobody came out to say his property was stolen, different conflicting accounts have emerged since the gruesome murder, some said that the students were cult members that have been terrorising the community for a long time. The residents insisted that the students were found with laptop and phones in an uncompleted building,smoking Idian hemp. Villagers who sighted them reportedly informed the vigilance group in the area that some robbers had invaded the community, on getting the information they combed the area,found the students and lynched them.
But another contributor, who appeared to be students of UNIPORT, insisted that the students were not robbers but members of a secret cult, and that on that fateful day, they went to Aluu village to "ruffle" a particular person who happened to be a rival cult member,on getting there they didnt meet him at home. So, they decided to relax in a near by bush. He added that it was the rival cult member that went to the vigilance group to allege that the students were armed robbers.
Knowing that if they ( the lynched students) were spared, they would retaliate, these rival members, posing to be students, called for the heads of the boys and accused them of orchestrating several robberies in the area. They even arranged for some girls to claim they had been raped.
That means in all this the boys where not caught with any stolen item?
#justice4aluu4#
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