The Enugu State Police Command says it has commenced investigations into an incident that took place in a community in the State where two persons escaped lynching for allegedly killing vultures.
The two victims, identified as Wale Alabi from Ibadan, Oyo State and Polycarp Onyia from Udi in Enugu, were said to have narrowly escaped death from the angry mob in Nkerefi, Nkanu East Local Government Area of the state for allegedly poisoning and killing 23 vultures.
The vultures were believed to be living in the Eke Market ancestral shrine in Nkerefi where the two intruders allegedly went and poisoned 23 of them, incurring the wrath of the community.
According to the Enugu State Command Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ebere Amaraizu, the two men had gone to Ohuani Nkerefi community where they allegedly poisoned the vultures as they perched on the ancestral tree located inside the village shrine.
Consequently, the vultures started dying in their numbers while the men kept packing them inside their sacks until the villagers noticed what was happening and started querying them.
The villagers, it was gathered, were angry that their ancestral shrine was being desecrated and were in the mood to mob the victims before the police were alerted and their prompt intervention saved the situation.
Culled from SUN
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