3 dead as mob lynch bike snatchers in Abuja

Operators of bike riders popularly called ‘Okada’ on Tuesday night lynched two bike snatchers who stabbed a rider to death in Jikwoyi, a suburb in Abuja.

Nigerian Anchor learnt from some residents that the incident happened between 9pm and 10pm at the Jikwoyi Extension III (popularly called Dagbadna) area of the community.

The Okada rider was said to be carrying the two men from Phase II Junction to an area of the Jikwoyi Extension III, where there is a mission hospital called Cornelian Hospital.

When they got to the area, which is usually lonely, the two men told the okada rider to stop them.

It was at that point that they began to struggle with him, in an attempt to snatch his bike from him.

When they could not forcefully overpower him to snatch the okada from him, they opted to stab him severally to weaken him.

Having succeeded in taking the bike from him, they left him bleeding on the ground, and drove away.

Luckily for the badly wounded okada rider, some of his colleagues found him, and he narrated what happened to him, before they rushed him to a nearby hospital.

His colleagues went to the Mai Angwa Vigilante to report the incident, and the vigilante group quickly went after the thieves.

After combing the bush for about 30 minutes, they found them, with the okada, and arrested them.

The badly stabbed okada rider, however, died in the hospital, after some minutes.

The sad news infuriated the other okada riders, who stormed the Mai Angwa Vigilante post, overpowered the vigilante group, dragged out the thieves, and beat them to death.

Nigerian Anchor’s efforts to get the Mai Angwa speak on the matter was abortive, as he was not in his home office.