Jungle Justice in Lagos: Young Woman Br¥tally Fl0gged in Viral Video
In a trending video posted on Instagram, a Nigerian man, Ajayi Olamilekan is calling appropriate authorities, human right activists and “online policemen” the likes of Verydarkman to come to the aid of a young lady who is being br¥tally flogged in a wears shop in Lagos state Nigeria.
The lady whose look is like a young girl in her late teens or early twenties. She’s wearing black upon black with a braided hair. The men are young people most likely in their early/late twenties and about five in number.
They flogged the lady mercilessly and filmed her. The video is an eyesore though no one knows what exactly she did.
The trending eyesore of a video has garnered reactions from netizens,
“I have 0 sympathy for thieves. If she’s caught stealing, it’s between the owner of the store and authority to do justice.”
“Sorry what’s the backstory, what happened. This is inhumane”
“Even if she steal, no where did Nigeria constitution approve flogging of a thief. Best is to allow appropriate authorities to handle the case.”
“What is this! No matter what she did,why will dey flog her like that”
“People like this ruins businesses for living and have us think it is government policies or the system or village people behind the misfortunes. Well, nothing to say further..”
“I swear to God who made heaven and earth eh, if any modafuka be it army, police, man or woman from any location including president ever flog any of my sister’s including third cousins like this eh, everyone in there family’s will disappear one by one each every month. I swear”
“Others were set ablaze for similar crime Though I don’t support jungle justice but she should be happy that she only got strokes of canes.
Why should such a pretty lady be involved in cr!me. I am sure lots of guys would have freely given her money if she had asked for help.”
“Person thief u say na inhumane”
“But if na man thief wey dem deh beat like that na humanity
Eti yawerey gan”
“No na, this is wickedness na”
“If it’s for stealing she deserves more than strokes”
“If her crime is stealing Make dem treat her fxxck up… Nonsense.”
“This is so wrong!”
The appropriate authorities are invite to weigh in for justice’s sake. Let’s see what the law would do in this case