Delta State Police Command has arrested one Sunday Ebube Linus for raising a false alarm over the alleged disappearance of his manhood.
In a post on his official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Wednesday October 11, the Delta State Police Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, confirmed the arrest while warning the public against jungle justice as a means of punishing offenders or criminals.
Edafe wrote “on Sunday, 8th October 2023 at DBS Road Asaba, this 18-year-old suspect Ebube Linus raised a false alarm that an old woman inside a tricycle touched him and his manhood (penis) disappeared.”
According to the PPRO, “Over 100 misguided touts gathered and mobbed this woman, stripping her naked and beating her to a stupor to the point of almost killing her”.
The police spokesman wrote further, “The Command was contacted and the DPO GRA division Asaba led policemen to the scene, rescued the woman, and arrested the suspect who we later discovered that nothing was wrong with him, as his manhood is intact.”
The PPRO noted that “he just lied against a poor woman, a mother, a daughter and a wife and now, the video of her being beaten and stripped naked is all over the internet.”
“Does this make any sense? Why embark on self-help? Why jungle justice?,” the police spokesman asked.
Edafe also added that the police is “hunting for everybody on that video and they will be arrested and dealt with in accordance with the law alongside the suspect”.
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