Kwara State Commission of Police, Victor Olaiya, expressed disappointment at the reports of jungle justice against some vigilante groups.<\/p>\n
This was as a result of the death of Lanre Adebayo, a graduate of the University of Ilorin, who was on his way home after visiting his mother.<\/p>\n
Sources had it that he was beaten to death during his encounter with a vigilante group.<\/p>\n
The Commissioner of Police issued warning to the vigilante group telling them not take laws into their hands but they should always hand over the suspects to authority.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cLate Lanre got into an argument with the vigilante group in the Ita-Elepa area of Ilorin metropolis and they decided to teach him a lesson which ended tragically.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAlso, there was another recent incident where another vigilante group arrested and detained a suspect and demanded N1.5m for his release, forcing a lawyer to petition the police command.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kwara State Commission of Police, Victor Olaiya, expressed disappointment at the reports of jungle justice against some vigilante groups. This was as a result of the death of Lanre Adebayo, a graduate of the University of Ilorin, who was on his way home after visiting his mother. Sources had it that he was beaten to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[1350,1349,1351,30,1352],"class_list":{"0":"post-15531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-local","9":"tag-commission-of-police","10":"tag-kwara-state","11":"tag-lanre-adebayo","12":"tag-university-of-ilorin","13":"tag-vigilante-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}