By Vera Chinonso Aliyu, YeyeNews.com, November 26, 2021
There was a mild drama at the home of a WhatsApp group admin in a Kubwa, a suburb of Abuja, as some of the members mobilized themselves, came in cars and tricycles, and on bikes to his residence to beat him up for what they described as the admin’s “daring to post Sai Baba in the group early in the morning” thereby causing them bad days.
An eyewitness told YeyeNews reporter that trouble started about 9:30am when a group of about 20 people comprising male and female forced themselves into the premises of the admin screaming his name for him to come out of his flat. “I was inside my house when I heard people shouting at the gate. When I peeped through the window, I saw a small crowd of young people forcing their way into the premises as the gateman tried to stop them. They started calling on my neighbor to come out but he was no where to be found. They said my neighbor is the admin of a WhatsApp group they all belong to and that they came to ‘treat his f–k up’ for posting ‘Sai Baba’ in the group early in the morning after numerous warnings from members for him to desist from the practice”, the eyewitness told YeyeNews.com.
The neighbor stated that without the intervention of the admin’s neighbors, some who pleaded, some threatened to call the police , the angry members would have broken down the door to fish the admin out of his flat. “It was quite a commotion that it spilled out of the compound and attracted passers-by some of whom got angry that some people were blaming their bad day on something as flimsy as that”.
A member of the WhatsApp group who spoke to YeyeNews reporter under condition of anonymity said the admin had been warned several times to stop posting “Sai Baba” in the group chat so early in the morning because whenever he does that, many members often end up having a difficult day. “Some people may see it as superstitious but for most of us, that phrase portends bad omen. So when he posted it again this morning some members just mobilized themselves and matched to his house to beat him up. He had to hid himself in the ceiling to escape their wrath. After this incident, I am sure he would not post that rubbish again”.
YeyeNews.com could not get a response from the admin as at press time as all his numbers were switched off and he was not see around his residency.
