When you look into the massacre of the over forty students in Mubi in Adamawa on Independence Day, and the heartless killing of the four young and ambitious UNIPORT undergraduates, you definitely want to agree with Shakespeare that “hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
Some who have condemned the sad Aluu killing have said our thieving politicians should be the ones Nigerians carry out jungle justice on. I can’t but disagree vehemently. We should rather advocate for law and order. If the law says anyone found guilty of stealing public funds be put to death by hanging. So be it! ‘cos that is the law. Our society can’t afford to operate like this; else we completely lose our human feeling and then birth more Hitlers than the world can bear.
Jungle justice is a prevalent occurrence in our jungle only that social media, at this time, has amplified our nakedness and brought the picture of ourselves and our failed system to us in a manner that we are finding hard to accept.
It’s evidently clear that we are not safe in this country and that we all are on our own. There’s a limit to which we can rely on “self-government” by that I mean the type of government whereby citizens virtually provide every amenity including security. It so sad that I sometimes, out of anger, feel that one day Nigerians would be able to do without the government. We provide our own water by drilling boreholes all over the place not being mindful of the environmental hazard it might bring. We provide our own power with our generators, despite that the fume they generate is hazardous to health. In many communities, people contribute money to fix roads so the roads might be quite motorable. We just can’t continue to wait for the inept government. What a shame!
When you need the fire men to salvage a fire accident, you can be sure that they won’t show up, and when they do, they either don’t have water or don’t have enough of it. When we need the police to show up at crime scenes, they either don’t have a van to come with or they don’t have fuel in it. And when you expect that the police or law enforcement agents show up and salvage a case such as that of the senseless Aluu killing, they’d rather look on, laugh with the mob, and then approve that the mob burn the boys alive. Only to later release fabricated lies and annoying unguided statements like “we were overwhelmed by the crowd, we didn’t have sufficient bullets in our guns”. Just to scare away a mob with sticks?! It was Chude Jideonwo, Chief Editor of Y! Magazine who said “we are living like animals in this country” while narrating the series of horrible experiences he had with the Nigerian system a couple of hours after the death of his father, not excluding the gruesome one with that of the ruthless members of the Nigerian police.
One would naturally expect that Mr President in his speech on Tuesday 9th of October, would at least mention the Aluu killing and that of Mubi in Adamawa and then talk about strategies in place to bring about justice. Infact, if it we were in places where things work, the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State should have tendered his resignation by now while all the police officers who were present at the scene be charged to court.
We earnestly can’t afford to continue like this. To sit and patiently expect that God will come down to save us from many of our man made troubles including the act of carrying out jungle justice, is to wait till the anger of His judgment come upon us. Most especially when we later realize that many of those who are murdered in such acts are most times innocent of the crime they were accused of.
We can do a lot to ensure that this case is not swept under the carpet. Justice must be done. Else we approve of this and more of it in our society. I advocate that the statue of these guys be erected in Aluu community as a memorial, so generations to come will always be reminded of the wickedness and innocent blood that was shared on that land.
May the souls of #Aluu4 find true rest.
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