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Jungle Justice: Before We Become Victims

Jungle Justice can be seen as the extra-judicial punishment meted out on purported criminals. Such punishments are usually mob-induced and weightier than those which a legally constituted court would mete out when a suspect is found guilty after trials. Jungle justice usually results to death in the most gruesome ways.  Jungle Justice shows, blatantly, how uncivilized a society is and, unfortunately, predominantly exists in black communities i.e. Africa and Afro-Caribbean. In Nigeria, over the years, many have been killed and others molested/seriously injured over 'trivial' crime cases. Such cases include:   In Owerri, sometime in 1996, a man who made a living out of stealing light bulbs from people's houses was caught and burnt. In Owerri, sometime in 2004...a famished man stole slices of yam which were being prepared by a commercial cook (Mama Put). He was caught and the cook, who happens to be the wife of a Police officer, provided the fuel which her sons

Nigeria At 52: The Oracle Does A Poem

My Love is accused of being barren and ugly... They say she is beastly, dirty and raggedly.  Please don't blame her... blame them that have treated her so badly... They promise heaven on earth but all they give her are so deadly. She brings forth milk and honey but is repaid with greed, wickedness and deceit placed highly. Yes! My Love is well endowed and full of potentials but she looks quite ravaged...sadly. In the midst of plenty, she lives so poorly. If only my Love could take control of her destiny, I bet she would look so godly. But alas, my Love wholly depends on crafty, selfish men and does she complain? Hardly! Everyday, my Love weeps and she starts so early. I look all over her body...oh! She is so sorely. It breaks my heart to see my Love in such agony  But what can I do? Something so barely. Who is my Love? Who is she that I am in love with so madly? She is Nigeria! She is 52 today and yeah, she would grow daily. Can't wait for the day when she wo