Cyclist lynched over ‘missing’ passenger’s manhood in Abuja

A commercial cyclist, identified only as Yahuza, has been lynched by a mob over the alleged ‘missing’ manhood of his passenger at Nyanya in Abuja. A witness, Ibrahim Musa, said the incident happened on Thursday, around 5:12pm when the cyclist picked up a passenger from Old Karu heading to Nyanya in the area. He said […]

A commercial cyclist, identified only as Yahuza, has been lynched by a mob over the alleged ‘missing’ manhood of his passenger at Nyanya in Abuja.

A witness, Ibrahim Musa, said the incident happened on Thursday, around 5:12pm when the cyclist picked up a passenger from Old Karu heading to Nyanya in the area.

He said the passenger shortly after he alighted from the bike raised an alarm that his manhood had disappeared, which attracted the attention of some people.

He said a mob immediately descended on the cyclist with sticks and other harmful objects, adding that some passersby later rescued him and took him to a nearby hospital.

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According to the witness, the passenger was also taken to a hospital in Nyanya to confirm his claim of losing his manhood.

“Unfortunately, the cyclist later died at the hospital he was taken to before security men arrived at the scene,” he said.

City & Crime had reported several cases of claims of the disappearance of manhood across the FCT, even as the Police Commissioner, Haruna Garba, had warned residents against raising false alarm over missing manhood and the jungle justice unleashed on alleged suspects.

The spokeswoman of the FCT police command, SP Adeh Josephine, in a WhatsApp message on the incident, said all the cases of missing male organs were false alarms, and that many people had been charged in court on such allegations.

She said: “The CP has been urging residents to promptly report such cases to the police station as it is criminal to engage in jungle justice; those found culpable will face strict legal consequences.”