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Sumaila Hadid, a 24-year-old man has been hospitalized in Tamale west hospital after he was brutalized by a mob for allegedly stealing a motorcycle.
He is being treated for sever body damage after his accusers attacked him with cutlasses, metal wires, stones and sticks and left him for dead on a landfill site.
In an interview with Starr FM, Sumaila revealed that his attackers refused to listen to him when he pleaded for his innocence.
The mob accused him together with his girlfriend of stealing the motorbike and an undisclosed amount of money belonging to a young man who hired them to retrieve the swags. The duo allegedly stole the motorbike from the young man at lamashegu but were identified by a neighbor who witnessed the theft.
Sumaila’s girlfriend and accomplice swiftly managed to escape after rumors that they were being sought after escalated. He was, however, arrested at his father’s house in Moshie Zongo by the mob and taken to a secluded spot in the bushland outskirt lamashegu where they staged the brutal assault.
The mob allegedly tied his hands and legs and poured a liquid acid on his head to coerce a confession. Metals were heated and forcibly thrust through his neck steaming out some flesh leaving the neck partially slit.
His condition has stabilized after going through surgeries but with the scale of injuries, he may spend months at the hospital receiving treatment, hospital sources have said.
A former National Security Advisor and Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah in an interview with Starr FM relating to the mob justice stated that there is normally no punishment for the people who engage themselves in mob justice hence the recent t up rises of lynching and mob justice.
“Nobody is punished for any crime, you can steal public money and walk scot free, you can kill people, you can pour acid on people and walk scot free, gradually people are graduating from minor crimes into big crimes” he added.
He also added that punishing those involved in a mob justice will severely serve as a deterrence to others who might think of committing such crimes.
“the country is gradually sinking into anarchy because nobody is doing their work” he added.
To reduce crime and mob justice, Nunoo-Mensah stated that the government should find jobs such as farming for these youths.
