A Lecturer of Alfred Akawe Torkula Polytechnic Makurdi in Benue State, simply identified as Emmanuel, was attacked and beaten by irate youths for alleged organ theft on Wednesday.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Catherine Anene, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that two persons have been arrested in connection with the attack on the Lecturer.
Our correspondent reports that Emmanuel is also a Pastor with the Living Faith Church in Makurdi, the State capital.
According to the PPRO, “What a shame to some youths, they don’t have respect for the law, elders or anybody. How can this happen in this generation?”
Anene called on traditional rulers, religious and community leaders, including every other stakeholder to rise against the barbaric acts by educating their people.
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The Police spokesperson added, “This is too bad. Two suspects have been arrested and they will be dealt with according to the law.”
LEADERSHIP gathered that the Lecturer, who was stripped almost naked, had came out of a Bank along Bank Road and was thereafter accosted by one of the members of a syndicate who raised alarm over his missing penis and within a twinkle of an eye, other members of the group surrounded the lecturer and started beating him.
Save for Police intervention, the victim would have been lynched.
It was also gathered that the suspected syndicate, which stationed its members around banks to extort people who withdraw money from the bank as they will send one of them to approach their victim and start raising false alarm on organ theft and all of them will gather to assault the person by collecting his phones and money before fleeing the scene.
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