AFRICA SHOULD KNOW THAT...INSTANT JUSTICE IS NOT JUSTICE...AND STOP...NB;Pics may be disturbing..

INSTANT JUSTICE IS NOT JUSTICE.

       Is instant justice is a kind of justice? This is question that will be answered differently by different people base on their environment, culture, tradition religious beliefs etc. First of all let’s look at how Macmillan English dictionary defined or explained Justice. Justice is the treatment of people that is fair and morally right; a legal process of judging and punishing people; or a fair result or punishment from the law court.

      In Africa mostly instant justice are associated with theft cases and witchcraft. There have been numerous times when suspected thieves or criminals have been lynched to death, some were burnt alive. But the fact of this issue is some of the accused or suspected thieves are innocent and they could prove their innocence when given the chance the question is how often suspected thieves are given the chance. In 2010 November a 72 year old Ghanaian woman was burnt to death on suspicion of being a witch, belief in witchcraft and other superstitious things are relatively common in Africa. In Nigeria there have been countless numbers of mob cases relating to burning of the victims. There was a case in 2012 at Potiskum northeast of Nigeria’s central capital Abuja where a thief was burnt alive base on the law (sharia law) the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has impose on the inhabitants of that area. The most painful one of all that made airwaves recent to the extent that other international media like BBC and CNN had to give report about was the (Aluu 4) issue where four undergraduate university students were wrongfully accused of being armed robbers in Aluu community at Port Harcourt, river state Nigeria. This is a big blow to the justice system of our society as Africa. There have been same countless cases, some we barely hear about. This is murder and this is not how justice should prevail.

     What has such acts create for Africans in the eyes of our neighboring continents? No wonder some western countries citizens will not want to visit Africa such acts are strange to them. Mod acts like lynching and burning suspected thieves to death are hardly to hear in the western world. While the media, and some individuals, non-governmental organisations and government organisations are trying to stop and discourage such acts, other communities are also encouraging it. We should consider the quote of Clarence Darrow which says “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free”. You that you are encouraging such act you might one day fall a victim. It is the spirit and not the law that keep justice. Let us try to educate our self in a modern civilize manner in the eyes justices. The media and government should talk more and educate the society about mob actions and instant justices. The lay downs and needed procedures should be used in any criminal cases. Africans we are love and not hatred. We respect each other and regard ourselves as brothers and sisters. This is the continent of love and justice but not injustice. King Martin Luther Jnr once said “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”

Martinz (D'Alohan.)