The National Human Rights Commission has joined the police in condemning mob justice insisting no one has the right to take the law in his hand.
In a statement, NHRC said: “The Commission is equally perturbed by the images of mob justice circulating on social media that victims subject the suspects of these crimes, literally taking the law into their hands and imposing their own punishments on these suspects.
“While the Commission empathises with the victims and condemns the suffering, and at times the assaults and violence, they are put through, it wishes to state categorically that no one has the right to take the law into their hands or subject another person to humiliating, degrading and dehumanizing treatment no matter the crime or offence committed.
“Alleged offenders when apprehended should be handed over to the Police whose duty it is to prosecute and ensure the law takes its course. Mob justice is an affront to due process and the rule of law and the Commission, thus, urges everyone to be law abiding and uphold human rights of all.”
