How I witnessed a SCAMMER beaten to COMATOSE
Fraudster & His Ordeal
image source: pixabay Rather fail with honor than succeed with fraud was my resolution after witnessing a fraudster being stoned almost to death by an angry mob.
It was on the eve of Christmas, at about 3:30pm, just after lunch, when a loud burst of voices was heard near my homestead in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. He was too gentlemanly to be thought of as a fraudster; yet, he was only a beast disguise in lamb's wool. His victim, a young lady of about 22 narrated her story to the widened ears of the passerbys. "Who would've known him to be a fraudster given how he dressed?", was a constant repetition by the lady.
The fraudster who's identity was yet to be reviewed approached the lady, asking if she could spare him a minute's call with her phone. He claimed to be a lawyer, adding that he had forgotten his phone at the office while he was coming back, and that his home was just a stone-throw away from where they stood. He were that he wanted to reach his secretary who would help him get the phone while returning from work. She offered her phone without hesitancy and crossed over to a shop where she wanted to get a bottle of coke, beckoning him with a wave to wait at the exact spot while while she pulls herself across for the coke.
It was less than three minutes when she pull out of the shop only to meet man's absence. As if led by some transcendental being, she doddled into one of the narrow paths there she saw the man trying to untie her phone's battery with three other phones with him whereupon she screamed "thief, thief, thief", and this alerted the neighbors who, through their efforts, made the man's plans to escape come unglued.
Three other ladies came out and claimed ownership of the other three phones. This aggravated some angry mobs who had reached the scene in the wake of the loud scream. They had begun their duty as per usual when other young boys joined in stoning him. The fraudster was at the brink of coma when some police arrived the scene and took him away, and soon quietness returned again.
Yours truly,
@samueloption
Hmmmmmmn sometimes I think these thugs be given a second chance, most times they are just victims of circumstance
Thank God for the timely intervention of the police
Nigeria is more or less a safe haven for them. Second chance to them - the fraudsters is like a go-ahead.
Wow! Life in Nigeria is tough for scammers. Getting stoned to death is some sentence.
Here we just throw them in prison where they are forced to take showers with the long term inmates who haven't seen a woman in 20 years. Of course the guards take pity on them so they usually throw a bar of soap into the showers.
This punishment doesn't seem to work as well as killing them by stoning though.
Many become repeat offenders after they get out.
Nigeria breeds fraudsters.
From top government officials to even the police officers, they are all corrupt; they aid and abet crime that is why the masses decide to take laws into their hands by stoning the fraudster.
There are some cities in Nigeria that they set them ablaze.
Honestly, lynching is not legally right...Nigerians break laws a lot..
I am a Nigerian and I against fraud cum scam at any level. The Nigerian government is doing nothing about it because of their selfish interests.
Imagine, 2 weeks ago, we heard that a snake swallowed a whooping sum of 36 million Naira and last week, Monkey swallowed 70 million Naira from the Nigerian government.. 😡
How did we get to this point?
I do not agree to take justice by your own hand, but sometimes they are consequences of your actions
You are right...