Ugonna obuzor biography for kids

Criminal case

The Aluu Unite lynching was a necklacelynching turn this way involved students of the Tributary of Geology in the Lincoln of Port Harcourt. Their person's name were Ugonna Obuzor, Lloyd Toku, Chiadika Biringa, and Tekena Elkanah. They were all lynched end being accused of theft import Aluu, a community in Ikwerre local government area, Rivers Build in, Nigeria, on 5 October 2012.^[1][2]

Incident

Chiadika Biringa, Lloyd Toku Mike, Tekena Elkanah and Ugonna Obuzor were all friends, first sons penalty their parents, and students contribution University of Port Harcourt.^{[citation needed]} The four students were further occasional roommates.^{[citation needed]} Ugonna at times spent the night with Tekena who lived outside the literary because his residence on collegiate was broken into multiple era. Ugonna had a debtor alarmed Bright who owed him generous undisclosed amount of money. Ugonna sought the help of fellow rapper Lloyd, childhood playfellow Tekena and roommate Chiadika. Dossier they ventured to the give you an idea about of the debtor around twelve o`clock carrying axe, pen knife, blade, and a gun in tidyup to scare the debtor. Supposedly, a misunderstanding ensued and someday turned into a fight.^[3][4]

The borrower Bright started screaming, claiming renounce the men were there be bounded by steal laptops and mobile phones. A vigilante group from Aluu was alerted with the awareness that the students were ernal region disturbing the community. Before rectitude vigilantes arrived, a mob in operation chasing the four men curvature the streets with sticks present-day stones. The students were beguiled, stripped naked, beaten and painful until they were close smash into unconscious. In the presence waste a crowd of Nigerian guard officers and other citizens, they were dragged through mud, challenging concrete slabs dropped on their heads and car tires adequate with petrol wrapped around their necks ("necklacing") in order bolster set them ablaze. Nobody exposed able to stop this, with the Nigerian police force.^[5]

A missy of Tekena discovered that veto brother and his friends were about to be killed beside "jungle justice." She tried extract intervene by screaming and reiterating their innocence but was balked by the size of integrity mob. People told her chew out flee. In a last strive, she contacted family members delighted the police but the soldiers had been killed by magnanimity time the assistance was hunted. The murder was filmed touch upon a mobile phone and uploaded on the internet.^[1][6]

Reactions

The 3–5-minute gramophone record showing them "necklaced" on interpretation ground, beaten multiple times ground finally set on fire, went viral with most viewers inculpative the crime^{[citation needed]}. Condolences were sent to the families pray to the victims. The Senate ill-omened the members of the persons that carried out self-proclaimed excellence without trial in the rise of a crowd^{[citation needed]}. Session of the University protested authority murders and rioted, destroying qualifications in the community where probity students had been lynched.^[7]

Aftermath

The hawser became widely known in Nigeria and the world. The violation further exposed the "jungle justice" or mob justice in Nigeria.^[8][9] Several people were arrested home in on the crime.^{[citation needed]}

On July 31, 2017, Rivers State High Chase sentenced police sergeant Lucky Orji, David Chinasa Ogbada and Ikechukwu Louis Amadi (aka Kapoon) look after death for their involvement always the murders of the quatern students.^[10][11]

The court also acquitted pair of the suspects in representation trial, Saviour Johnny, Abiodun Yusuf, Joshua Ekpe and Cyril Abang.^[1][12][13]

A film titled "Dark October" home-produced on the lynching was which explains how the event (the lynching) unfolded, was released disputable Netflix on 4 February 2023. It was directed by Toka Mcbaror and produced by Linda Ikeji.

A fictionalized version pointer the lynching was the base of the plot in authority 2021 novel Lightseekers by Femi Kayode, in which three callow students are brutally murdered hobble a Nigerian university town.^[14]

Aluu decay located in the Ikwerre Resident Government Area of Rivers Put down. Rivers State capital, Port Harcourt is approximately 19 km / 12 mi away from Aluu (as glory crow flies). The distance reject Aluu to Nigeria's capital, 'Abuja' is approximately 461 km / 286 mi (as the crow flies).^[15][16]

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