The true story of the alleged '7-year-old boy' that was lynched to death (READ)

Yesterday we reported about a 7-year-old that lynched to death for stealing garri ... Well, it turned out to be that the boy isn't 7-year-old but an adult who is among a robbery gang terrorizing Alafia, a bus-stop before Orile in Lagos State.

Read the rest of the story via yabaleftonline.com,

So at first we were skeptical about this story of the alleged “7-year-old” kid who was lynched to death after he allegedly stole garri.

After careful investigations, we have come to the conclusion that he wasn’t actually a seven-year-old boy who stole garri but rather he was a man in his twenties who was nabbed by angry residents who took law into their own hands and had jungle justice on him.

No one is in support of jungle justice, but the stories that we’ve gathered concerning the whole incident has made us realize that the agonies that the so called thief and his gang brought to some families in Alafia, was what made the residents take that action – they did what they did because they felt the Police and law won’t give the culprit the right justice he deserved and might even go scot-free

A Twitter user had shared that he knew the ‘man’ who was been lynched to death at the time… He shared:

Another Twitter user too, shared his story of how his blood brother was a victim to the crimes of these so-called thieves… He took to Twitter to pour out his heart… Read from the bottom to the top: