Aluu Four lynching

Chiadika Biringa, Lloyd Toku Mike, Favour Erikena and Ugonna Obuzor were all friends, first sons of their parents, and students of University of Port Harcourt. The four students were also occasional roommates.[3] Ugonna sometimes spent the night with Favour who lived outside the campus because his residence on campus was broken into multiple times. Ugonna had a debtor called Bright who was owing him some undisclosed amount of money which bothered him much. In time, Ugonna managed to find out Bright's particular location. He sought the help of his cousin Lloyd, childhood and longtime friend Favour and roommate Chiadika. Together, four of them ventured into a journey of no return. The four students finally arrived in the house of the debtor at about midnight, a time that seem odd for anyone to move about, carrying axe, pen knife, and Cutlass in order to scare the debtor. In the cause of settling the debt, a misunderstanding ensued which turned sour and eventually turned into a fight.[4][5]

A neighbor of the debtor heard the noise and started screaming, claiming that the men were there to steal laptops and mobile phones. The vigilante group from Aluu, was alerted with the impression that the students were the criminals disturbing the community. Before the Vigilante group from Aluu would arrive, angry mobs has started chasing the four men through the streets with stick and stone-wielding, caught them, stripped naked, beaten and tortured until they were almost unconscious. Afterwards, in the presence of a crowd, the Nigerian police officers and some Nigerians, they were dragged through mud, had concrete slabs dropped on their heads and car tires filled with petrol wrapped around their necks (thus "necklacing") in order to burn them. Nobody could stop it, not even the Nigerian police force[6]

A sister of Favour was nearby and then discovered that her brother was about to be killed via "jungle justice." She tried to intervene and rescue him with his friends by screaming at the top of her voice at the mob and reiterating their innocence but she was overpowered by the size of the mob. People from the mob told her to flee. In a last attempt to save her brother's life, she decided to contact other family members and the police, but the men had been killed by the time the required assistance was sought. The murders were filmed with a mobile phone and uploaded on the internet.[1][7]

The video, 3 and a half minutes footage showing them lying on the ground "necklaced", beaten multiple times and finally being set on fire, went viral, with most viewers condemning the crime. Condolences were sent to the families of the victims. The Senate condemned the jungle justice that members of the community carried out where the four students were hurriedly murdered without trial in the presence of a crowd. Students of the university protested the murders and went on rampage by rioting and destroying properties in the community where the students had been lynched.[8]

The lynching was widely viewed in Nigeria and the rest of the world. The crime further exposed the "jungle justice" or "mob justice"' which is still prevalent in Nigeria.[9][10] Several people were arrested in connection with the crime.

On July 31, 2017, 4 years and 9 months after the horrid incident, Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt sentenced to death a Police Sergeant, Mr. Lucky Orji, David Chinasa Ogbada and Ikechukwu Louis Amadi, (aka Kapoon) for their active involvement in the murder of the four students of University of Port Harcourt.[11][12]

The court also discharged and acquitted four of the suspects in the trial, Saviour Johnny, Abiodun Yusuf, Joshua Ekpe and Cyril Abang.[1][13][14]