Oga Afolayan,
The verities of yesteryears have given way to the fluxes of today. Modernity comes with good and bad. Societies falling apart at the seams take various measures to ward off evil, as perceived. And there are varieties of failed states. "Stand your ground" is a legal extrajudicial law that allows summary judgement even in the land of Lincoln, even while directed only at a certain category of people.
Well, in our situation, the poor, dispossessed, angry and frustrated must find targets for their problems. In most cases, the target are also the poor, as they are unable to tame the elephant in the room - the rapacious elites taking advantage of the vulnerabilities of the poor to feather their own ungodly nests. Yes, it is not expected of civilized society, but civilization has been hijacked, by the criminally minded privileged class, to the disadvantage of the poor, hence the poor can only vent on his/her ilk.
Am not a psychologist or psychiatrist, but in The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society I examined why urbanization and high culture existed in Yoruba society before the vagabonds from Europe and Arabia destroyed our capacity for civilized existence. And I was not unmindful of the human capacity for evil in even indigenous Yoruba society, but clear ways were found for dealing with such without the prevarications of the criminal English common law which works on the side of the criminal - eni to se oun t'enikan o se ri, dandan ni k'oju onitoun ri oun t'oju baba enikan o ri ri. Even the Kings were not absolved from punishment, unlike the Sarakis of today. Anyone interested should read Professor Shyllon's Inaugural Lecture at the University of Ibadan.
Anyway, this is not an occasion for rigorous intellectual engagement. I appreciate your indignation, but I ask why is it that amukun's observers are looking at the top, while the dislocated luggage is made so from the props below!
Ire ni o.
Tunde.
On Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 7:18, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
BUT granted that the so-called 7-year old was not seven after all but seventy. Granted that it was not gari that he stole or attempted to steal but a car or even something more valuable, are we now so morally depraved to the extent that lynching, or any other form of extra-judicial punishment to a human-being - son, brother, nephew, uncle, father, friend of someone is a normal judicial process in our culture? I still don't get it! Any society where jungle justice is an acceptable form of sanction has a major problem. We need to address that. We seriously do!
Michael O. Afolayan
On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 1:16 AM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
No seven-year-old boy burnt in Lagos – Police
Police have refuted the news of the lynching of a seven-year-old boy for stealing garri in the Badagry area of Lagos state.
Reports and videos making the rounds on the social media indicate that the boy was set ablaze after being beaten up.
The reports caused outrage on the social media with many Nigerians calling for an investigation into the incident and an end to jungle justice.
However, the Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni has confirmed, according to a reliable source that the said lynching of the seven-year-old boy over garri theft is untrue.
Police complaint unit, headed by Mr Abayomi Shogunle, in its twitter handle @YomiShogunle, said there was no truth in the purported lynching.
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