Two students from Twifo Praso Senior High School have been arrested by the police for allegedly mobilizing their colleagues to lynch a spiritualist, identified as Abdul Latif.
The violent incident occurred on the evening of Wednesday, August 21, 2024, at Twifo Praso in the Central Region, after Latif accused one of the students of stealing a mobile phone.
According to reports, a junior student’s phone had gone missing, prompting the students to seek the help of Abdul Latif, a local spiritualist, to identify the culprit.
After performing his spiritual investigations, Latif accused one of the senior students of being responsible for the theft.
Enraged by the accusation, the student reportedly rallied a group of around 10 of his colleagues to ambush Abdul Latif. They severely beat him until he died. After the attack, the group dragged Latif’s body into a nearby bush and attempted to conceal it by covering it with weeds.
The police, upon discovering the body, retrieved it and transported it to the Twifo Praso Government Hospital Mortuary, where it is awaiting autopsy. The two students suspected of leading the mob attack are now in police custody, facing charges related to the lynching.
Graphic Online’s Central Regional correspondent, Shirley Asiedu Addo, is said to have reported that the incident has sparked outrage among some youth in Twifo Praso, who planned to storm the school in retaliation for Latif’s death.
However, swift intervention by the police averted further violence. Reinforcement teams from the Central North Regional Police Command were deployed to the area to maintain order and ensure peace.
The father of the deceased, Yaw Nkrumah, disclosed that this was not the first time his son had been targeted by students from the school. He revealed that Latif had been attacked twice before by students following the initial phone incident but had managed to escape without harm. Sadly, the third attack resulted in his death.
In a chilling incident at Awutu Bontrase, located in the Awutu Senya West district of the Central Region, an alleged notorious car snatcher met a gruesome end, while two of his accomplices were apprehended during a car theft operation.
These suspects, believed to be residents of Nsawam, were known to operate in the Kasoa area and its surroundings within the Central Region.
Reports indicate that on Saturday, September 23, 2023, at approximately 6:00 am, the suspects engaged a taxi driver’s services to take them to Awutu Bosomabra, ostensibly to inspect some land.
Upon reaching a secluded part of the road, the suspects abruptly instructed the taxi driver to halt the vehicle and launched a violent assault, attempting to forcibly seize his Hyundai taxi bearing registration number GE 5718-22.
The terrified driver, crying out for assistance, drew the attention of nearby villagers, who promptly rushed to his aid. They successfully apprehended the suspects in the midst of their nefarious act.
However, in a tragic turn of events, one of the suspects met a grisly fate as he was subjected to mob violence and beaten to death before the arrival of the police. The surviving culprits were subsequently handed over to the Awutu Bontrase police for further investigation.
The deceased has been transported to the Winneba Specialist and Trauma Hospital, while law enforcement authorities initiate an inquiry into the shocking incident.
The partially damaged vehicle involved in the crime has been impounded and is currently held at the police station pending the ongoing investigation
A suspected motorbike thief was lynched in Obuotumpan, a community close to Nyamekrom in the Eastern Region.
Information gathered by Starr News indicates that, somewhere in May 2023, an unregistered motorbike belonging to Samuel Awuku alias Nana Yaw Abodee was stolen but he failed to report to police.
However, came across the motorbike on July 2, 2023, at about 4:00pm, ridden by one Ayawa with 26-year-old Augustine Minta alias Kwaku Attah as a pillion rider.
The owner of the motorbike immediately pulled a gun and shot at the moving motorbike causing it to crash.
But the rider Ayawa managed to escape with the motorbike leaving the pillion rider who was violently accosted and arrested.
Samuel Awuku grabbed and dragged the pillion rider to his uncle’s house and threatened to deal with him.
Shortly, a mob of young men wielding single-barrel guns, sticks, and clubs joined Samuel Awuku and dragged the victim to the father’s house of Ayawa who escaped to search for him and the motorbike.
However, on their way from Ampedwe to Obuotumpan they subjected the victim to severe beaten until he became unconscious and was abandoned.
Police proceeded to the scene and found the victim in a supine position dead with the right wrist almost cut off, with bruises all over his body.
He was conveyed to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he was medically confirmed dead.
Post mortem report by Dr. Collins Osei Kissi gave the cause of death as “a Multiple blunt force trauma to the head II. Chop would to the right wrist”.
Samuel Awuku was arrested on July 17, 2023, and arraigned before Koforidua District Court “A” the following day on charge of murder.
The prosecutor Sergeant George Defia prayed the Court to remand the accused person to enable police conduct further investigation to arrest six other identified accomplices.
The court granted the request and remanded the accused to reappear August 2, 2023.
Ten men in India have been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a court for the brutal killing of Tabrez Ansari, a 24-year-old Muslim man.
The incident occurred four years ago in the state of Jharkhand when Ansari was accused of stealing a motorcycle. A viral video showed Ansari being forced to chant praises to Hindu gods while pleading for his life, sparking widespread outrage in the country.
Despite his injuries, Ansari’s family alleged that the police denied him medical treatment. However, the state police denied any wrongdoing in the matter.
The disturbing video footage from the night of June 19, 2019, depicted a terrified Ansari tied to an electricity pole, being assaulted by a mob, and blood and tears streaming down his face.
The recent court ruling has resulted in the conviction of the ten men involved in the attack, sentencing them to a 10-year jail term.
Four years ago in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India, 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari was brutally beaten to death by a group of men who accused him of stealing a motorcycle.
Recently, a court in India sentenced 10 men involved in the attack to 10-year jail terms. The incident had sparked massive outrage across the country after a video went viral showing Ansari being forced to chant praises to Hindu gods while pleading for his life.
The heart-wrenching video footage from the night of 19th June 2019 depicted a terrified Ansari tied to an electricity pole, enduring the merciless assault by the mob.
Blood and tears streamed down his face as he suffered inhumanity at the hands of his attackers. Adding to the tragedy, Ansari’s family alleged that the police had denied him proper medical treatment despite his severe injuries, while the state police maintained their denial of any wrongdoing.
The case had received significant attention and raised concerns about communal tensions and the need for better protection of minority communities in India.
The court’s verdict, though a step towards justice, highlights the importance of addressing issues related to religious and communal violence and ensuring that all citizens are treated equally under the law.
Unknown assailants have lynched a suspected thief, identified as Yaw Gyamfi, in the Bokankye area of the Atwiman Nwabiagya North District in the Ashanti Region.
The lifeless body of Gyamfi, a mason in his late 30s, was discovered on Thursday, June 1, 2023, near some stolen iron rods.
Local residents who gathered at the scene reported that they woke up to find the deceased’s body, expressing uncertainty about the identity of the assailants responsible for the act.
Jemima Pokua, a Unit Committee member of the Bokankye Electoral Area, stated in an interview with OTEC News that the incident did not come as a surprise due to a recent increase in robbery cases.
However, she expressed suspicion regarding this specific case, as there were no signs of a struggle at the scene.
Pokua called on the local police to investigate the matter thoroughly and bring the perpetrators to justice. The police have taken custody of the body and conveyed it to the hospital for further examination.
A young man met his untimely death after he was lynched by an angry mob.
He was lynched at Asafo in Kumasi after being accused of attempting to steal a bus at the VIP station in the area.
The deceased believed to be in his 30s reportedly broke into one of the buses VIP-branded bus and drove it away.
The bus conductor saw this and jumped onto a motorbike to give him a hot chase.
According to the Dadiesoaba Assembly Member, Akwasi Agyeman, the conductor, while on the chase sounded the alarm and some residents joined in.
“When he got to the GRA office, the hill there, he needed to climb but because the bus also moves with air and apparently there was not enough air to keep it going.
“And because he didn’t get the chance to fill it with air before moving it, he got stuck and the mate was able to catch up with him,” Mr Agyeman told Accra-based Class FM.
The growing mob subsequently caught the suspect after another desperate attempt to flee the scene.
“When the mate shouted to attract the crowd, he attempted to get down and run away, he tried going back but run into someone’s vehicle. So people came and beat him up. The mob beat him up.”
His remains have been deposited at the morgue by police in Asokwa.
A few months ago, I survived a lynching: This is how I remember it.
I was out on a walk with a friend in Uyo, one of Southern Nigeria’s fastest-growing cities, when four young men accosted us. They first accused us of being homosexuals – as it happens, we are not, but same-sex relations of any kind are punishable by law in Nigeria.
They then demanded that we surrender our phones. When we tried to defuse the situation by trying to talk to them, the men began to attack us with machetes. My friend escaped, but I wasn’t as lucky.
What unfolded next was a long-dreaded nightmare. The young men attacked me with a barrage of machete strikes, punches, slaps and kicks. Within minutes, my face swelled up, bloodied. As a crowd gathered and people asked questions, the young men lied, claiming that I was a paedophile. I wasn’t surprised. Now that we were out in the open, it made sense to accuse me of something in order to justify this insane attack, this robbery.
‘Funny scene’
The next morning, a local journalist who had witnessed the incident would recount it on Facebook: “Yesterday, I witnessed a very funny scene…A guy was being beaten and manhandled by several other guys in the middle of the road and it caused a traffic gridlock.”
Public brawls are fairly common in Nigeria, so it’s possible for onlookers to observe, bemused, from a distance. But there was nothing funny about the incident.
At the height of the attack, my assailants quickly sought out tyres, a cigarette lighter and diesel – the familiar tools of jungle justice. Here’s how the script usually plays out in such situations: After accused victims have been thrashed, bloodied and perhaps even stripped naked, a large tyre is placed around their body to limit movement – this act is called “necklacing”. Then the victims get a baptism of petrol or diesel and a lit match is thrown at them.
When one of the men charged towards me with a can of diesel, I broke away and tried to latch onto a moving tricycle. It was a recklessly futile effort. The men dragged me down and I fell hard on the road. I was already bleeding from the knees when one of them yanked me up and hit my face hard (my right eye would hurt for weeks after this). He had tripped and fallen after pulling me off the tricycle and was clearly infuriated.
“You’ve wounded me, right?” he said. “I will make sure you die tonight.”
I believed him.
Fire and blood
Central to Nigeria’s context of jungle justice is the role of state-sanctioned extrajudicial killings in creating this unfettered monster. When Nigeria was under military rule, executions of thieves by firing squad would be broadcast into living rooms. Meanwhile, the military increasingly acted with impunity away from the cameras, corruption was rampant and soon it was known that those who wanted justice had to bid for it.
Though democracy returned in 1999, justice didn’t.
In the early 2000s, state governors were unable to curb crime in Nigeriaʼs southeast region. So they hired a brutal vigilante group called the Bakassi Boys and gave them free rein to violently fight crimes, leading to a reign of terror marked by the public lynching of criminal suspects.
As faith in the law wilted, people channelled their hateful frustration towards low-level criminals. Scenes of flaming bodies ringed by frenzied mobs slowly became normal. In 2005, a short video of a 12-year-old boyʼs lynching circulated, shocking Nigerians.
Then on October 5, 2012, four students of the University of Port Harcourt, all between 18 and 20 years old, were lynched in an obscure southern village called Aluu. The young men, who tragically became known as the “Aluu 4”, constantly pleaded for mercy and stated their innocence, even as they were being tortured.
Gory videos of this attack went viral globally. The boys, it turns out, were not thieves as the mob had alleged – they had been set up by a debtor whom they had confronted to pay up. And most importantly, their names became known: Chiadika Biringa, Ugonna Obuzor, Lloyd Toku, and Tekena Elkanah. Outraged over their deaths, students of the University of Port Harcourt attacked local homes in Aluu.
Like many others, I was permanently scarred by the Aluu lynchings.
Defenders of jungle justice in Nigeria often say, “If we don’t beat and kill these criminals, they will bribe the police, go scot-free and return to deal with us. These people are dangerous!”
It is for this reason that survivors of lynching attempts are rare.
Nothing has changed
In March 2022, US President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that now makes lynching a federal hate crime within the United States. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act was welcomed for its historic significance, although most Americans saw it as long overdue. Some even asked if lynchings were “still a thing”.
In Nigeria, they definitely are.
A survey in 2014 revealed that 43 percent of Nigerians had witnessed mob violence. According to a report by SB Morgen Intelligence, a Nigerian think tank, at least 391 persons were killed by mobs in the country between January 2019 and May 2022.
Often, I see headlines and social media posts arguing that Nigeria is descending into “chaos and anarchy”. While that might be true, such words serve only to mask the failure of the rule of law that is at the root of the country’s jungle justice – a problem so endemic that only a total overhaul of the present system will solve it. Nigerians are not inherently violent. They have merely lost so much faith in the law that mob action appears more effective.
After the Aluu 4 lynching, an anti-lynching bill was proposed in Nigeriaʼs legislature but fizzled out while it was being deliberated. You see, mob actions rarely ever ruffle the wealthy and powerful.
Perhaps one needs to remind Nigeriaʼs political elite that if they don’t take this seriously, the poor might soon tire of killing each other and turn their focus upon those who steal much more than mobile phones.
Rigorous sensitisation campaigns, an urgent reform of Nigeria’s correctional systems and an emphasis on restitution – not death – as the endpoint of criminal justice are some of the changes Nigeria needs.
At the centre of a mob on that cold July night, I knew better than to beg for mercy. Towards the end of my ordeal, a dark police patrol truck with tinted windows passed by, its occupants unfazed, even when it was clear that something was terribly wrong. The law did not help. The only thing I could do was to keep on asserting my innocence. I told anyone who would hear that I was simply the victim of plain armed robbery. Silently though, I prayed.
Somehow, I was able to convince a few people, until a brave stranger rescued me. Somehow, I survived, and for weeks afterwards, I slowly recovered.
I think of families whose loved ones have been murdered by this strangest and most elusive of killers: a mob that pounces, murders brutally and disappears into thin air. And for what? Because no one trusts the law any longer, because life itself has little value here.
Many people have told me that it was a miracle I made it home alive that night. I agree, even though I am aware that my survival has a dark underside – I can never fully recover.
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A popular barber was allegedly killed in Asiri, an agricultural town in the Jaman North District of the Bono Region, as a result of the unfortunate murder of a motorcyclist nearby, causing chaos.
On January 2, on the Seketia-Asueyi route, Kwabena Prince, the deceased, is suspected of killing Alex Mensah, an 18-year-old “Okada” rider.
Prince allegedly paid the ‘Okada’ rider to take him to Asueyi, but on the way back, allegedly killed him, stole the motorcycle, and fled.
A manhunt was then started for the culprit by the police in Sampa, the administrative center of the Jaman North District.
Prince, who had been missing for a few days, was only discovered by chance when a young guy saw him at a chop bar in Asiri after locals uploaded his images on social media to help with police investigations.
The Ghana News Agency (GNA) gathered from residents that the young man who sighted the suspect confronted him, and sensing danger he (suspect) took to his heels, but some young people in the town chased, overpowered and arrested him.
They then handed him over to the police at Asiri.
But when information about the arrest spread in the town, a mob rushed to the police station, deflated the police vehicle tyres which intended to transport the suspect to Sampa, forcibly took him from the police, and lynched him accordingly.
The Police had since deposited the body at the Sampa Government Hospital for preservation and autopsy while investigations continued.
As at the time of filing this report, the GNA learnt calm has returned to the Asiri, after some military personnel were deployed to maintain law and order in the town.
An Algerian court sentenced 49 people to death for lynching an innocent good Samaritan painter.
Djamel Ben Ismail was dragged into the main square of the Algerian village of Larbaa Nath Irathen and attacked by locals who wrongly accused him of starting devastating wildfires – apparently because he was not from the area – but the 38-year-old had actually travelled to the Kabylie region, 200 miles from his home, to help battle the blazes of August 2021, tweeting that he was going to “give a hand to our friends”
His murder shocked the country, particularly after graphic images were shared on social media.
A mammoth high-security trial involved more than 100 suspects, with most found guilty of playing a part in Mr Ben Ismail’s killing.
Those given the death penalty are likely to face life in prison instead because Algeria has had a moratorium on executions for decades.
Some 38 others were sentenced to between two and 12 years in prison, said lawyer Hakim Saheb, from a collective of volunteer defence lawyers at the trial.
After arriving in Larbaa Nath Irathen and being wrongly accused, police said Mr Ben Ismail was dragged out of a police station, where he was being protected, and attacked.
Among those on trial were three women and a man who stabbed his inanimate body before he was burnt.
Police said photographs posted online helped identify the suspects.
Mr Ben Ismail’s family asked why those filming did not save him instead.
The movement’s leader, Ferhat M’henni, based in France, was among them.
Algerian authorities accused MAK of ordering the fires.
Defence lawyers said confessions were coerced under torture and called the trial a political masquerade aimed at stigmatising Kabylie.
At the time of the fires, the region was the last bastion of the “Hirak” pro-democracy protest movement, which helped bring down long-serving president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Hundreds of Algerian citizens have been jailed for trying to keep the Hirak movement alive, with marches banned by Algeria’s army-backed government.
According to the state news agency, an Algerian court sentenced 49 people to death after they were found guilty of lynching a man wrongfullysuspected of starting forest fires last year.
Because there is a moratorium on executions, the sentences are likely to be reduced to life in prison.
Algeria experienced the worst fires in its history in 2021, with multiple blazes killing 90 people.
Djamel Ben Ismail, the lynching victim, had gone to help fight the fires.
After the fires broke out in August last year, the 38-year-old tweeted saying he would travel over 320km (200 miles) from his home to “give a hand to our friends” fighting the blazes in the Kabylie region, east of the capital Algiers, which was the worst-hit area.
Soon after he arrived, locals falsely accused him of starting fires himself.
On 11 August, graphic footage began circulating purportedly showing Ben Ismail being attacked. People tortured and burned him before taking his body to the village square.
The videos caused national outrage.
Mr Ben Ismail’s brother urged social media users to delete the footage of the attack. His mother, he said, still did not know how her son had died.
His father, Noureddine Ben Ismail, said he was “devastated”. “My son left to help his brothers from Kabylie, a region he loves. They burned him alive,” he said.
The AFP news agency reports that the father’s calls for calm and “brotherhood” were praised by Algerians.
The fires took place amid dry conditions and very high temperatures, but authorities also blamed “criminals” for the blazes.
The court sentenced 28 others to between two and 10 years for other offences related to the lynching, the AFP quotes the state news agency as reporting.
Jane Toku sheds no tears as she recalls the moment when she saw the smouldering remains of her son’s corpse on the morning he and three of his friends were lynched 10 years ago.
The four students had run into a local vigilante group at dawn in Aluu, a community behind the University of Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria’s oil capital.
There had been a spate of robberies in the area and at that time of the morning, people became suspicions. Accused of being petty thieves, the four – Llody Toku, Ugonna Obuzor, Chiadika Biringa and Tekena Elkanah – were given a mock trial and found guilty.
Their punishment was handed out immediately: they were stripped, marched around the community, brutally beaten and set alight by the mob as thousands watched and filmed.
“When I arrived, I forced my way through the crowd and knelt before my son’s corpse.
“His friend Tekena was barely breathing, I watched his chest heave with his last breaths,” Mrs Toku said.
Such mob killings are not uncommon in Nigeria but this was the first to go viral on social media, causing widespread outrage, protests and debates about the country’s judicial system, and questions about a society where people resort to such levels of violence.
“One is tired and sick of coming here to lament after these dastardly acts,” a lawmaker said at the time when the incident was discussed at the National Assembly.
“It is important for ‘jungle justice’ to be stopped – it is bad,” said radio host Yaw, as celebrities condemned the incident.
But despite the shock and anger over the killing of the students, now known as the Aluu Four, and the sentencing of three men including one police officer, for their roles in the lynching, mob attacks continue to happen in Nigeria.
There have been 391 mob killings in Nigeria since 2019, according to SBM Intelligence, a Lagos-based think-tank, with at least five this year alone.
That begs the question why the outrage over the killing of the Aluu Four didn’t lead to a national reckoning over lynchings.
“The failure of the criminal justice system is one very important reason for this,” said Dr Agwanwo Destiny, a criminologist at the sociology department of the University of Port Harcourt.
He pointed to instances where criminal suspects handed over to the police were released without investigation and ended up seeking revenge on those who had given them up.
“Such incidents erode trust in the judicial system, so when people are alleged to have committed a crime, people are quick to pass judgement and vent their frustrations,” Dr Destiny said.
It is an argument also made by activist Annkio Briggs, who led demonstrations in Port Harcourt to demand justice for the students and their families, because she “couldn’t trust the system to do what was right,” she told the BBC.
Perpetrators of mob killings in Nigeria are rarely arrested and prosecuted.
Two suspects arrested in May after the lynching of a Christian student on allegations of blasphemy in Sokoto have still not been brought to trial, while the police said the main culprits are still at large.
It was one of four reported cases of mob killing in that month alone:
Two men were burnt to death by a mob in the Ijesha area of Lagos over alleged theft of mobile phones
One man was murdered in Lugbe, Abuja on allegations of blasphemy
Commercial motorcyclists lynched a sound engineer identified as David Imoh in the Lekki area of Lagos.
Suspects have been charged in all cases, the police said. But it might be years before there are any verdicts because of the slow pace of justice in Nigeria.
Two years ago, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the ICPC, said the judiciary was the most corrupt arm of government in the country. It said that more than nine billion naira ($21m; £19m) was offered and paid as bribes in the sector.
Such reports indicating that justice is for sale to the highest bidder erode trust in the system, said Dr Destiny.
It has never been determined what the four students were doing when they were stopped by the vigilante group in Aluu.
One version said they were thieves, another said they were members of a violent gang but neither allegation was proved in court.
Image caption, Mike and Jane Toku say their son had a bright future ahead of him
“He was not a perfect child but he was humble and he was our confidant.
“He was close to us because we had our second child 11 years after him,” Mrs Toku said of her son.
The four students, best friends, were in their late teens and early 20s and came from middle-class homes.
Ugonna, 18, and his friend Lloyd, 19 – known as Tipsy and Big L – were budding musicians in Port Harcourt’s rap scene.
One of their three unreleased songs Love In The City could almost be a prophesy of what befell them.
Growing up in the city like PH where Ra was made to sing right
We embrace the street life cos
There’s no love in the heart of the city
How can the seeds grow when the garden is weary
It used to be very cool but the oil crude brought violence
“There can be no justification, no reason why anybody should die like that,” said their friend Gloria During, who lived in the same Hilton hostel in Aluu as both musicians.
Aluu is popular for its private apartments that are rented by students who can’t find accommodation at the university’s insufficient hostels.
At the time it was a small village with many undeveloped plots and a population that were mostly farmers.
Today, Port Harcourt’s sprawling metropolis has caught up with the fringes of Aluu – most of the land has been built on by Pentecostal churches and more hostels have sprung up.
But in the centre of the community remains two barren plots, the playground where the students were first held and death pronounced on them, and the burrow-pit, several hundred yards away, where they were marched to, beaten and killed.
Despite the nationwide shock when the incident happened, time has allowed most of Nigeria to move on.
But for a mother, time is a keen reminder of the loss of a beloved first son with a bright future ahead of him.
“He had a bright career in music, he would have gone far by now,” Mrs Toku said.
A man alleged to be a member of a suspected syndicate behind robberies in the Juabosoand adjoining districts in the Western North Region has been burnt to ashes in front of a Police station by some angry youth.
Lynching
Three members of the said syndicate were apprehended by the youth, however, one managed to escape while the police managed to rescue the third suspect before they could lynch him.
The angry youth descended heavily on the Police and threw stones at them and damaged their vehicles when the law enforcers attempted to rescue the suspects.
Eyewitnesses said the suspected robber was exposed after he was seen holding half a dozen mobile phones while trying to board a vehicle at the main Bonsu Nkwanta Lorry Station to Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
The phones
When the alleged robber was confronted by some youth and asked to unlock the phones, he was unable to do so.
The youth then removed a SIM from one of the phones and placed it in a new mobile device and attempted to make a Mobile Money transaction. In the process, the name of a popular member of the community who was recently robbed popped up.
The youth then marched the suspect to the house of the one whose name appeared and upon reaching the house, he narrated the circumstances of how he lost his phone.
Sensing danger, the suspect then confessed to being a member of a robbery syndicate and lead his apprehenders to the house where the remaining members of the gang were.
One member of the gang jumped a wall and escaped while another was apprehended. The two were assaulted by the now irate mob who marched them to the police station.
On reaching the police station, one of the suspects was set ablaze. The Police then struggled to rescue the another from the mob who are still demanding that the second suspect be released to them for instant justice.
The mob
As a result of the increasing numbers of furious youth in front of the Bonsu Nkwanta Police station, the Juaboso Police District Command has called for reinforcement to help contain the situation.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic, the Assembly Member for Bonsu Nkwanta, Mr Bawa Ibrahim said the uncontrolled anger of the youth and their resolve not to listen to reason was a result of the increasing cases of robbery in the area.
He said for some time now it was difficult for a week to pass without a report of a robbery.
“In recent times, one community was robbed and a man killed in front of his wife in one of the communities,†he said.
Prevalence of robbery
Other communities he said have had their share of the activities of robbers who have invaded the area making life unbearable for the people.
Mr Ibrahim said people from the district and other adjoining ones travel in fear, which should not be the case.
He also called for immediate action to ensure the security of the people.
As at the time of filing this report, the irate youth are still at the police station waiting for the second person in their custody to be released.
Ghana Police Servicehave arrested six people suspected to be involved in the lynching of a 28-year-old mechanic in Aburansa in the Central Region.
According to adomonline.com, the 28-year-old mechanic, Festus Eduafo, was lynched because some residents claimed he looked like a murderer.
The report indicated that the victim was on his way to Aborbeano to visit his son.
In an interview with Adom News, personnel of the Central Region Police Command, who confirmed the arrest, said that the six suspects will assist with the investigation into the matter.
The police source said that it will do all it can to bring all the perpetrators to book.
Also, the Assemblyman for Ekumfi Asaasa Electoral Area, Prince Dankwa, urged the community members to assist the police with the investigation and commended the police for the work they had done so far.
Meanwhile, the father of the deceased, Joseph Amakye, has said that he is utterly dismayed by the death of his son, adding that he is yet to come to terms with it.
