Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Echeng Eworo has urged the residents of the state to shun mob actions, stressing that it can lead to deaths and injustice.
This is coming following the lynching and burning of two robbers by irate mob along the express road beside Conoil filing station in Onitsha on Wednesday.
According to a statement issued by the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, the Eworo said despite assisting the police in apprehending suspected criminals, the residents should stop taking laws into hands.
The Commissioner of Police said: “Information revealed that at about 5:30pm on 19/1/2022, the yet unidentified armed suspects, operating with a motorcycle, robbed some persons in their shops at Awada.”
“During a hot chase by an angry mob which discovered the robbers were using a toy gun, they accosted the suspects at Oraifite street by Ogbo Bread and set them ablaze with their motorcycles.”
The CP stressed that instead of engaging in mob actions, the people should endeavour to take their suspects to the nearest police station whenever they are apprehended, which he said, would afford the police the opportunity to conduct an appropriate investigation into the nefarious activities of the suspects, and bring them to justice in accordance with the extant laws.