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[VIDEO] Mob Whips Suspected Thief For Attempted Robbery In Diani
When a man was caught attempting to steal from a homestead in Diani, villagers beat him to a near stupor.
A video posted online by former radio host and cum-content creator Andrew Kibe shows the man being tied to a tree near a residential apartment before a mob went on a haphazard whipping frenzy.
Moments into the action, the man can be heard screaming in vernacular, beckoning to the enraged mob and seemingly begging for mercy.
According to Kibe, the mob planned to lynch the suspect but changed their minds after elders intervened and suggested they discipline him instead.
“Dealing with thieves village style. The guy was caught by my caretaker stealing at the neighbours’,” Kibe captioned the video.
Dealing with thieves Village style. Guy was caught by my caretaker stealing at the neighbours. The young men wanted to lynch him but the wazeez intervened and instead decided on teaching him a lesson the old fashion way pic.twitter.com/3ogTPV9PHQ
— Andrew Kibe (@kibeandy) September 9, 2024
“The young men wanted to lynch him, but the wazees intervened and instead decided on teaching him a lesson the old fashion way.”
The whipping appeared to be so severe that the suspect went into a daze, shut up, and stopped struggling, prompting one of the men to intervene and prevent the young men from continuing the whipping.
The act elicited a variety of reactions from X users, with some criticizing the course of action and others hailing it as “a peaceful public participation.”
“He faced it rough as it should be, don’t always mess up with the villagers, they will teach you a lesson,” one said.
“Why not take him to court, primitivism? Those people need correctional institutions, maybe he was stealing to feed his family,” added another user.
It should be noted that mob injustice is a legally punishable offense.
Kenyans are always encouraged to hand over suspects to authorities after making a citizen arrest so that they can be processed through the justice system.
Section 21 of the Penal Code provides that: “When two or more persons form a common intention to prosecute an unlawful purpose in conjunction with one another, and in the prosecution of such purpose an offence is committed of such a nature that its commission was a probable consequence of the prosecution of such purpose, each of them is deemed to have committed the offence.”
As a result, individuals acting outside of a court of law who declare a suspect guilty violate both the law and the Constitution.
What is commonly referred to as “mob justice” is actually a great “mob injustice” to the suspect.
[VIDEO] Mob Whips Suspected Thief For Attempted Robbery In Diani
