Mob roasts man for robbing a woman pot of soup in Calabar

CALABAR- A MOB on Sunday morning in Calabar,
the Cross River State capital butchered and set ablaze a
young man beside the fence of the Atu Secondary School
along Goldie Street for allegedly robbing a woman of a pot
of soup while two of his accomplices managed to escape.

The hoodlum in the company of two others are alleged to
have attacked the woman in the wee hours of the Sunday at
No 3, Mayne Avenue Extension in Calabar South and
were attracted by the aroma of the soup the woman was
warming in readiness to eat with her children before heading
for the early morning mass at the nearby St. Bernard’s
Catholic Church and decided to cart the pot of soup away.

A young man who lives in the same premises with the lady
said as the robbers were about to get out of the compound
with the pot of soup, the woman raised alarm prompting
neighbours to go after them and caught up with the one
carrying the pot of soup and dealt him several machete cut
before setting him ablaze.

“It was almost dawn when the boys attacked the woman and
carried her pot of soup and when they were about getting out
of the compound, she raised alarm and people came out and
pursued them and caught up with this one”.

Our source who
prefers anonymity said
He said the boy was not able to run as fast as his
accomplices were because he not drop the pot of soup but was
running with it which gave the mob the chance to catch up
with him and butche him. “This is not the first time they have
come to our compound to steal. Last week they removed the
car battery of one of our neioghbours and once night falls,
they waylay people, especially ladies around Goldie by Atu
and snatch their handbags and phones”. He said.
At the time of writing the report there was no sign of the
presence of security agents there while the body was still
lying by the Atu Secondary School fence.