Angry mobs on Monday set two persons ablaze at about 9am for alleged armed robbery around Molete and Oke-Ado area of Ibadan, leading the police in the state to warn against jungle Justice.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Olugbenga Fadeyi, a Superintendent of Police, confirmed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Ibadan.
Fadeyi said that one person was rescued by an Amotekun team, handed over to the Police and treated at the Police Clinic, Eleyele.
The PPRO said that investigation into the matter had commenced to ascertain the immediate and remote causes of the action of the angry mob.
“Acts of jungle justice are condemned in the strongest terms as this is increasingly becoming a recurring decimal in the state.
“If allowed to continue unabated, it will degenerate into what we all would not be able to curb thereafter, and many innocent lives may be unjustly ended,” Fadeyi said.
The PPRO said that the Commissioner of Police in the state warned those taking the law into their hands to stop forthwith before the long arms of the law catches up with them.
