EDITORIAL: Justice for victims of the Uromi-16 lynching

Emotions were astir, and rightly so, from a broad spectrum of Nigerians following the lynching of 16 youths in Uromi, Edo State, penultimate week. It was a most barbaric and horrific act, which once more demonstrated how cheap life has become in the country.

The victims, travelling from Port Harcourt in Rivers State to Kano State, in a Dangote Cement truck, for the last Sallah festival, met their untimely deaths in the hands of a vigilante group, which suspected them of being part…