OUTRAGE IN CALABAR AS JUNGLE JUSTICE VICTIM’S BODY LEFT TO ROT ON MAJOR HIGHWAY

Calabar residents are fuming over what they describe as a double tragedy — the gruesome lynching of a young man suspected of theft and the shameful abandonment of his decomposing corpse for nearly a week on the Murtala Mohammed Highway, right in front of the NYSC Secretariat.

The body, dumped in the dead of night on Thursday, September 4, now lies swollen and blistered, oozing decay and spreading a suffocating stench that has forced commuters and traders to desert the once-busy bus stop.

Beyond the immediate health hazard, residents say the sight is a damning indictment of a society sinking deeper into lawlessness and official neglect.

“This is barbaric. Jungle justice has no place in a civilized society. And for the government to leave a corpse rotting in the open for days — it shows shocking irresponsibility,” one furious resident told Benue info-pedia.

Community voices are demanding urgent action: not just the evacuation of the body by the Ministry of Environment, but also the prosecution of those behind the killing. Many argue that silence from security agencies is effectively an endorsement of mob rule.

Human rights advocates warn that jungle justice continues to flourish in Cross River State because authorities look the other way. “Today it is an unnamed young man. Tomorrow it could be anyone. Unless killers are held accountable, this cycle of violence will never end,” an activist declared.

The Calabar incident starkly illustrates a dangerous reality: when justice is replaced with mob brutality and when authorities fail to act, the rule of law collapses — and every citizen is at risk.