21st August, 2023
By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
A man in his early twenties narrowly escaped being lynched by a mob after robbing a sex worker at Ojotolane Street, Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State on Sunday.
In the incident which occurred at about 11:10pm, the man whose name could not be ascertained, had allegedly snatched a bag of money belonging to a sex worker in one of the brothels around Azikiwe area of Mile 2, Diobu, after patronizing her.
However, the sex worker went after him in a hot chase in the bid to recover the bag of money. In his attempt to escape, the man jumped inside a drainage in the area.
Our correspondent who visited the scene reports that he was rescued from the drainage by a mob who were also attracted to scene by the alarm raised by the sex worker.
The sex worker told the mob that the man snatched the bag she was using for keeping her money and fled from her room shortly after patronizing her.
It took the intervention of a concerned landlord, Mr.Shine Ibe, and other landlords to stop the mob from setting the young man ablaze.
In an interview, the suspect, claimed that he decided to snatch the bag containing the money of the sex worker because she did not satisfy him by allowing him ejaculate as agreed after paying her for service.
He was later handed over to vigilante operatives in the area. But said bag of money could not be found as at the time of this report.