The Inspector General of Police, IGP Tunde Disu, has issued a stern public warning against jungle justice and mob action. He recently had his say in a viral video on social media, and Nigerians have been reacting.
Insisting that jungle justice is homicide, Disu declared that measures have become necessary to checkmate the rising cases of extrajudicial killings across the country.
He added that henceforth, anyone who assaults or kills a suspect outside the law will be prosecuted for murder.
His words, “Anybody who assaults or summarily executes a suspected criminal in the name of mob action is guilty of murder. And the punishment for murder is death.
Section 319 of the Criminal Code and *Section 221 of the Penal Code, both prescribe the death penalty for murder in Nigeria.
Those who video the event and circulate them, those who take pictures and circulate them, and those who mobilize the crowd, or those who block the police from intervening, all of them are liable.
They are guilty of conspiracy to commit murder. And the punishment for that is 14 years imprisonment.
I have directed all the Commissioners of Police in the 36 states of the federation including the FCT to treat every case of mob action as homicide.
And to carry out full scale investigations using all the forensic tools and intelligence tools available to the police.
We are not going to spare anybody who is involved in mob action. We will do a thorough investigation and we will charge them to court.
We will prosecute them and we will make sure that justice is done. There’s no exception to this.”
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