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Jungle Justice :It’s All Wrong But It’s All Right

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Bala Ibrahim

<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"2VQ36gyD" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>By Bala Ibrahim&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"ufXJ1pC6" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>I know many Human rights activists would call for my head&comma; but I am ready to damn the consequences&comma; by supporting the adoption of jungle justice&comma; in addressing the incessant problem of kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria&period; Yes&comma; mob action to kill the killer before the killer kills you&comma; because&comma; in Nigeria&comma; the lawful way of addressing the menace is meaninglessly cumbersome&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The social media was agog last night&comma; with clips carrying the caption&comma; CAUTION&comma; saying&comma;-these are kidnappers caught around Lokogoma axis in Abuja&period; Someone saw them pushing a girl&comma; who operates as a POS vendor&comma; into the booth of their car&period; He followed them&comma; repeatedly drawing the attention of passers-by&comma; until the car was eventually blocked&comma; after which they were apprehended&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The video clip shows gory pictures of three men turned naked&comma; in the hands of a mob&comma; who were gruesomely torturing them in a horrible&comma; grisly and mercilessly disgusting manner&comma; with blood all over their body&period; The sight was awfully repulsive to anyone engaged in humanitarianism&comma; but the action of the mob is comfortably consoling to people like me&comma; who believe in egalitarianism&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"zuZPglEK" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2022&sol;08&sol;10&sol;dss-charges-online-journalists-on-credible-reportage&sol;">DSS Charges Online Journalists On Credible Reportage<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Yes&comma; all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities&period; So anyone with a reversed ambition&comma; should be treated in an uncouth manner&comma; that is lacking in refinement and grace&period; In circumstances like this&comma; I am in total support of jungle justice&comma; because&comma; kidnapping in Nigeria has refused to obey&comma; or go by the universal convention of engagement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those engaged in kidnaping for ransom in Nigeria&comma; do not believe in the philosophy of niceties&period; Where as the law enforcement agents are enjoined to operate in accordance with the rules of engagement&comma; which direct the circumstances and manner in which the use of force is applied&comma; Nigerian kidnappers operate with a violently variant version of the rule&comma; by subjecting their victims to extreme cruelty and barbarically brutal behaviours&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>They kidnap and torture before asking for ransom&period; But even where such ransoms are paid&comma; they sometimes go ahead to kill the captive&period; What else can be more inhuman&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When Dolly Parton composed her song&comma; It’s All Wrong&comma; but It’s All Right&comma; methinks she did it out of the feeling of the excitement and enigma that are associated with love or romance&period; &&num;8220&semi;Hello are you free tonight&quest; I like your looks&period; I love your smile&period; Could I use you for a while&quest; It&&num;8217&semi;s all wrong but it&&num;8217&semi;s all right&&num;8221&semi;-Dolly Parton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dolly Parton’s pattern of asking to use you tonight is not for torture or abuse&comma; but a romantic method of utilising the opposite sex&comma; to quench a burning desire&comma; because as she said&comma; her needs are very much alive&comma; because&comma; &&num;8220&semi;the amber sunset glow has died”&period; But those needs are not similar to the needs of the pitiless kidnappers of Nigeria&comma; who would like your looks&comma; but for something sinister&period; So if they borrow you&comma; which they do without your consent&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s not for a while&period; Sometimes it&&num;8217&semi;s borrowing for good&comma; or going for good&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So if such borrowers are made to bid farewell to this beautiful world&comma; even if through jungle justice&comma; I join Dolly Parton to say&comma; It&&num;8217&semi;s all wrong but it&&num;8217&semi;s all right&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A quick glance at the thesaurus gave the definition of Human rights as&comma; rights that are inherent to all human beings&comma; regardless of race&comma; sex&comma; nationality&comma; ethnicity&comma; language&comma; religion&comma; or any other status&period; Human rights include the right to life and liberty&comma; freedom from slavery and torture&comma; freedom of opinion and expression&comma; the right to work and education&comma; and many more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you seize a lady at work&comma; forced her into the booth of a car and fled&comma; you have violated the above definition of Human rights&comma; and engaged in Human wrongs&period; So it&&num;8217&semi;s all right if you are summarily and wrongly treated&comma; I think&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you disguise as a visitor with honourable intentions&comma; knock on a man’s door&comma; kidnap him as he opens the door&comma; drag and hide him in the bush for sometimes&comma; you have violated the above definition of Human rights&comma; and engaged in Human wrongs&period; So it&&num;8217&semi;s all right if you are summarily and wrongly treated&comma; I think&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The dictionary describes jungle justice or mob justice as a form of public extrajudicial killings&comma; which can be found in Nigeria and Cameroon&comma; where an alleged criminal is publicly humiliated&comma; beaten and summarily executed by vigilantes or an angry mob&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unlike Dolly Parton&comma; who said to the person she want&&num;8217&semi;s to borrow&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; It may be wrong if we make love&period; But I just need someone so much&period; And who knows&comma; it might last for life”&comma; the Nigerian kidnappers don’t want you for love&period; They borrow you for money&comma; and sometimes kill you&comma; even if the money is paid&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So&comma; if they are killed through jungle justice&comma; and even if all the Human rights activists in the world would call for my head&comma; like Dolly Parton&comma; I say&comma; It&&num;8217&semi;s all wrong but it&&num;8217&semi;s all right&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; 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