@Harri_Obi’s tweets on jungle justice
A photo circulated on social media, calling the attention of people to a seven-year-old boy who had been set on fire because he stole garri. Expectedly, Nigerians reacted with indignation that seven-year-old child could be treated in such a manner. Turns out the story was false but this series of tweets by @Harri_Obi made us sad.
1. Let me share my own side of this lynching story. From where the alleged thief was burnt, to my house is a trekable.
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
2. It is a notorious bus-stop for phone thieves i.e Alafia, the bus-stop before Orile, if you're coming from Mile 2.
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
3. I lost my blood brother to these thieves in January of this year. He was 20, & was coming back from dance rehearsal.
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
4. He was holding his friend's Samsung Tab when the thieves approached him & without warning, stabbed him in the neck.
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
5. His friends didn't know what happened cus he was at the back. After he was stabbed, he ran towards his friends…
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
7. My bro. is huge in size, so it was difficult for his friends to lift him. Even when they did, nobody stopped for …
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
8. them or offered to take him to a hospital. A good Samaritan bikeman helped and took him to a near by quack hospital.
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
9. The hospital rejected him. It was a lost cause. So his friends abandoned his lifeless body on the road opposite the
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
10. hospital. One of them ran 2 my house to call me. I had just come back from d gym, i had only gym pants on, no shirt
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
11. I did an intense squat programme that day. Mind you, i never do squats in the gym. I flung my phone and ran out as
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
12. fast as my tired legs could carry me, half naked. I didn't even know my mum was following me. I got to the hospital
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
13. and saw my brother's lifeless body on the floor with dozens of people staring at him like he just landed on earth.
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
14. I fainted, but some folks revived me and put me on a bike with my bro's body. They put my mum on another bike.
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
15. Some of our neigbours who had heard my mum screaming also followed us. It was difficult for the bike to balance cus
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
16. of my bro's weight. So our neighbours carried him on their hands to another hospital, which also rejected him on
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
17. the spot. I heard a medical worker say, eleyi ti ku na, which translates to this one is dead na. I begged for them
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
12. Long story cut short, my family is still recovering from the trauma of that night. Sometimes, my mum waits for us
— HARRI OBI™ (@Harri_Obi) November 16, 2016
….
No-more-loss
Another veteran entertainer, Ademuyiwa Osinuga popularly known as Nomoreloss died after a brief illness.
Before his death, Nomoreloss was a singer and social critic who sometimes stirred controversies with his comments.
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