{"id":69910,"date":"2025-07-08T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69910"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:28:23","slug":"mob-pours-hot-oil-on-suspected-thief-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/08\/mob-pours-hot-oil-on-suspected-thief-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mob Pours Hot Oil on Suspected Thief in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man was severely burned with hot oil after being accused of stealing from a shop in the Mushin area of Lagos on Wednesday.<br \/>\nEyewitnesses said the suspect was caught allegedly stealing cash and goods from a local grocery store when an angry mob descended on him.<br \/>\nThe violence escalated when a trader reportedly poured boiling oil on him, causing extensive burns.<br \/>\nViral videos show the man screaming in pain as some bystanders watched and others cheered.<br \/>\nThe Lagos State Police Command has condemned the attack as a clear case of jungle justice.<br \/>\nSpokesperson SP Benjamin Hundeyin warned that taking the law into one\u2019s hands is criminal and vowed that those responsible would be prosecuted.<br \/>\n\u201cNo one has the right to pour hot oil on another human being. Theft allegations must be reported to the police,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe victim, whose identity remains unknown, was rescued by police and is receiving treatment at a hospital.<br \/>\nThe police have launched an investigation and urged the public to provide information to help apprehend the culprits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith A man was severely burned with hot oil after being accused of stealing from a shop in the Mushin area of Lagos on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses said the suspect was caught allegedly stealing cash and goods from a local grocery store when an angry mob descended on him. The violence escalated when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69941,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69910\/revisions\/69941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}