Everyday is a new day and each day brings hope...At least that is the way I see it from my point of view. I started this topic this way because I believe that one day, Africa will be great. One day when all the corrupt, evil people are done away with, the young and innocent generation will have a beautiful country/continent devoid of all the wickedness we see today. I don't know who the bad people are or from what product they are but there are a lot of unnecessary killings, robbery, ethnic hatred, anger going on in our nations. When you look at the map of Africa especially that of the Sub Saharan Africa, no one country is doing great (My opinion).
I remember some years ago, when robbery was a thing of pastime for some Nigerians (which it still is today), not only will these wicked (agents of the devil)steal, they also kill and commit abominable crime. I remember an incident in the eastern part of Nigeria, These robbers, go into innocent people's home, rape and then demand that a father should rape his daughter or a brother his sister and if they refuse, they get killed. In Onitcha then, no day goes without gun shots (unbelievable?). The police could not do anything, the people believed some police were actually involved in some of the crimes. Hearts were broken, innocent lives were killed, and people were mourning. Easterners refused to go home because of what might happen. People dared not enter transportation especially bike (Okada) with any form of bags because of the fear of getting killed....Then one day, some boys called the BAKASSI BOYS said enough is enough and started killing all the BAD BOYS and GIRLS...They took the law into their hands and killed and burnt most of these killers....(barbaric you may say) the people welcomed them, and funny enough, there was calm and peace, there were no more gun shots, no more robbery as it was and people could go about their business. Some years past and no body heard of these boys till I opened the papers today to hear THEY ARE BACK!!!! and have burnt their first robbers this year in ABA Nigeria. These robbers stole from an innocent man and was caught by Bakassi boys who made sure that the victim collected his money, the passport and the bag snatched from him by the robbers, Bakassi boys then decorated the robbers bodies with machete cuts before setting them ablaze. The Bakassi boys watched to ensure that the suspects got properly burnt.
OK, the people are happy now, robbers will think twice before attempting any robbery but as a nation, what is the police doing? Why can they not be the ones to bring people to justice? In fact the people prefer Bakassi boy's type of justice because they say the police will release these horrible robbers to commit crime again. Every where in the country, there are people being killed by robbers, we fear our fellow brothers. Many Nigerian fear of going back home because of the crimes there. Should the bakassi boys be legalised and who agrees with this type of justice?
Waoh. Waoh. Quite impressed by your clearity of thought shown in the quality of your writings.I like the passion for Nigeria and all that. The issue of the Bakassi boys is kinda fummy. Here in Lagos you have the equivalent in OPC. The advantage these boys have over Police men is that they are not scared of warfare. A policeman would run at the sound of gunfire but these boys believe their charms would protect them. The problem is when they mete out jungle justice on the wrong victims. Keep up the passion for Nigeria. For me, Sometimes it comes, sometimes it goes
ReplyDeleteThanks Comrade, I am one for justice and all that and just like you, I would not want anything to happen to innocent people. I do not believe in jungle justice but what does one do when he/she lives in a jungle?
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