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The Akwa Ibom House of Assembly has passed a resolution against jungle justice in the state.

The resolution was passed after a motion presented by Hon. Asuquo Nana, member representing Ikono State Constituency noted the increasing cases of jungle justice in Akwa Ibom. The lawmaker in the motion tagged, “Rising Cases of Jungle Justice in Akwa Ibom State: Urgent Need to End the Menace,” described jungle justice as a “form of arbitrary extra-judicial killing where a suspected criminal is humiliated, beaten or summarily killed by a crowd,” lamenting that the practice has been on the increase in the state in recent years.

Nana recalled an incident along Olusegun Obasanjo Way by Nsentip Street in Uyo, where a young man was accused of stealing a mobile phone and was lynched immediately. He also cited an incident at Urua Okpokpo in Ikot Oku Ikono, where a nursing mother was killed by an irate crowd for allegedly stealing another woman’s money, among other incidences.

 

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