How irate mob killed suspected Yahoo boy in Ondo after crushing four persons to death

Parents of 35 -year – old man, Olorunfemi Tope watched helplessly as their son was killed by irate mob after crushing  four persons to death in an accident, which occurred at ljoka area, in Akure, the Ondo state capital, on Easter Monday.

The victim was alleged to be an internet fraudster otherwise known as “Yahoo boy” by the mob who stoned and beat him to death.

His parents were almost killed when
they reportedly rushed to the scene while the mob were stoning their son.

The mob reportedly encircled the parents, after identifying the victim as their son, escaped by whiskers.

But for the timely arrival and intervention of police detectives, they too would’ve been lynched by the irate mob.

They, however, set ablaze the Toyota vehicle driven by the 35-year-old victim.

An Eyewitness said that ” the Yahoo boy was driving a Toyota car along the road and suddenly skidded off its lane to crush the victims who were on commercial motorcycles also known as Okada.

” The driver rammed into about five commercial motorcycles carrying passengers at different spots along Ijo Mimo, through Sunday bus stop, Ijoka road.

” The victims died on the spot, while others sustained serious injuries.

” Immediately the accident happened some sympathizers who rushed to rescue the victims and the driver, later reportedly found some fetish items inside the driver’s vehicle, raising suspension that the he is a ‘yahoo boy’.

” Angered by their discovery in the car, the sympathizers descended on the driver.

” The driver of the Toyota car who did not sustain any injury was said to be trying to escape from the scene when he was caught by some youths and was beaten and stoned to death.

Speaking on the incident, the spokesperson for the state police command, Funmi Odunlami, confirmed that the mob killed the driver of the vehicle that crushed the victims to death.

Odunlami, however, said that only two persons were killed by the driver during the accident.

According to her ” No one can confirm if the young man in question is an internet fraudster, there was an accident that led to the death of a motorcyclist, rather than people around to help, some resolved to Jungle Justice by killing the young man OlorunFemi Tope, aged 35, who drove the vehicle and set the car ablaze”