HURIWA tasks police on arrest, prosecution of Cross River youths for lynching Catholic sisters
01 September 2022 |
3:33 am
Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, tasked the Nigeria Police Force to fish out and prosecute some Cross River youths who allegedly attacked and tortured two Catholic sisters to death over witchcraft allegations.
Emmanuel Onwubiko
Condemns jungle justice
Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, tasked the Nigeria Police Force to fish out and prosecute some Cross River youths who allegedly attacked and tortured two Catholic sisters to death over witchcraft allegations.
HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, condemned the killing of the two Catholic sisters who were returning from early morning mass, and noted that jungle justice has no place in a civilised society.
The two widows, Martina Osom and Rose Akon, were on Saturday, accused of witchcraft and allegedly lynched by some youths in Ebbaken community, Boje, in Boki Local Council of Cross River State.
Commenting, Onwubiko said, “The lynching of the two Catholic sisters is strongly condemned. It is barbaric and a manifestation of cruelty of the highest order. So, the police must fish out the killers and prosecute the culprits. HURIWA recommends a tough punishment for the culprits to serve as deterrent.
“Jungle justice is alien to any civil society and should be stamped out using all constitutional provisions. For instance, Section 33(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) states thus: ‘Every person has a right to life and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life, save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been found guilty in Nigeria’.
“Similarly, Section 315 of the Criminal code Act states thus: ‘Any person who unlawfully kills another is guilty of an offence called murder or manslaughter, according to the circumstances of the case’.
“Section 220 of the Penal Code prescribes that anyone who intentionally caused the death of another commits culpable homicide. Section 8(1) of Administration of Criminal and Justice Act (2015) also agreed that no one has the right to take another’s life.”
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