Nigerian celebrity media mogul and foremost blogger turned movie producer, Linda Ikeji, is set to release a movie titled, “Dark October” which is about the infamous ‘ALUU four lynching’.
The movie was directed by Toka Mcbaror, it was shot by Linda Ikeji studios.
Announcing the upcoming project, Toka took to his verified Instagram page and wrote, “October 5th 2012…we will never forget!!!”
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The Aluu Four lynching was a necklace lynching that involved four young men, Ugonna Obuzor, Toku Lloyd, Chiadika Biringa, and Tekena Elkanah, all students of the University of Port Harcourt.
Glam Squad Magazine recalls that on October 5th 2012, the four students were killed by the community.
According to press reports, the students had allegedly gone to the Omuokiri Aluu community in pursuit of a debtor to one of them when the debtor (who is still at large) apparently sounded an alarm and accused them of stealing his laptop and other goods.
Without adequately interrogating the pupils, an enraged mob swooped down on them and thrashed them viciously. They were supposedly marched around different portions of the neighborhood before being set ablaze, according to the viral video clips.
Security officers arrived on the site but were unable to stop the mob activity, according to witnesses who testified throughout the trial. After the event, the late Lloyd’s mother told newsmen that she rushed to the scene from their home in Port Harcourt, only arriving a few minutes after they had been burnt to death. She recalled that in her dazed state, she sat down in front of her deceased son’s body and began singing thanks to God Almighty, and that it was then that it dawned on her that the boys were innocent.
She said that her son had devoted his life to Christ before his death, and that the Sunday before he departed for school, he returned from church with a book for her. Friends of the murdered pupils continued to remember them as young musicians whose potentials were stifled by bad minds.