Read as Nse Ikpe-Etim narrates her chilling true-life experience with jungle justice
Actress Nse Etim shared a chilling story about Jungle Justice on twitter(I had to copy it out to make it easy for reading)
"I'll tell you my experience #JungleJustice.I took a night bus to Aba some years ago from Abuja to the fabric market...After I had walked around and seen for myself, I went back to the park and decided to have a beer.I brought out my laptop and started writing...trying to blend in so I don't look out of place.I was scared but knew that in a few hours, I would be back home.As I took a swig from my bottle and turned to my laptop, in a flash...someone had lifted the bottle in pursuit of a young man.I heard screams of 'onye oshi' 'thief'...that's when I realized that the woman screaming had been robbed of her purse..The woman
claimed she had only N200 and an umbrella in the purse. They pursued him, caught him and put a tire on his neck.They poured fuel on him and all I could do was beg the officers there to help him. They looked at me funny and struck the match.My journey to the nation's capital was no longer the adventure I hoped it would be, it was my worst nightmare.This isn't a movie... I'm talking about Jungle Justice in Nigeria. I think it's sickening and sad. We cannot lose our humanity.If a man does wrong, please seek the hands of the law. Taking the law into your hands is barbaric and that's not what we should be.What's your take on Jungle Justice? Let's talk
I believe poverty hardship and desperation are the amin reasons 4 these acts of brutality!
ReplyDeleteOh mıne! Not denyıng the fact that stealıng ıs a crıme and the theıf should be punıshed..but why on earth should we take law ınto our hands..Its totally ınhumane!
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when we take the laws into our hands , we are no better than the man who committed the crime and who is yet to be found guilty, its sickening, we loose our humanity when we stoop to that level.I once had a nasty experience in my old neighbourhood i witnessed a man kill his Dog with such brutality because it bit a neighbour's son who provoked it, I tried to stop him , i feel ill for days because of that singular incident and hated the fella, i am not an animal lover,but the dog sure didnt deserve to die, how much a man ,
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