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| Armed African Mob Image: Otago Daily Times |
The news
of a ‘7-year-old boy’ gruesomely tortured and burned to death for stealing Garri broke
yesterday (November 16, 2016) when a user on Twitter, @Adeyanjudeji, tweeted
pictures about it and Linda Ikeji carried it on her blog. In a matter of hours,
a video had surfaced to join the pictures and though I didn’t watch it, the
pictures were enough to show people standing by as this little boy was beaten
up, draped with a tire, and set ablaze; all by a mob of men and women frothing
at the mouth with supposedly righteous indignation. It was later discovered
that he was a full-grown man as opposed to the little boy that was originally reported.