Two young men snatched a phone in broad
daylight and bolted. One slipped away; the other was bagged by oh ten thousand ‘petulants’.
They hurt and hammered the hangdog with sticks and stones and switches until
their gall seemed to peter out. Then, a jobless Beelzebub fetched a grubby jerrycan
of grimy engine oil. They soused him slick with the stuff, and made him glug a gallon or two.
Good old Ghana Justice, I agree with it as long as the pep is not killed.
ReplyDeletesorry, but i cannot agree. street/mob justice has ended so wrong in many instances. people have used it to eliminate their enemies. and genuine mistakes have also been made. a hospital administrator was killed in rural ghana about 2 years ago because he was his mother's corpse (or somebody like that) to a mortuary in his car, and these officious youth of a town mistook him for a ritual murderer. enough said.
DeleteA blatant ignorance or sheer stupidity of the youth in your example is unacceptable and I am very much against that. However, I am still for street justice without killing if there is irrefutable evidence against the offender. Especially in armed robbery cases.
DeleteBut how can there be irrefutable evidence at that stage?
DeleteWishful thinking on my part:)
Deletedrank the engine oil? Wtf. I'd have preferred to die.
ReplyDeletei agree, usherr. they 'killed' him. he will just die another day when everybody has forgotten this dehumanising behaviour and would not look to the real cause of his death.
DeleteThis is way above the crime or...?
ReplyDeleteyes. strong medicine. totally deplorable.
DeleteA thief, yes, but this is a crime against his person.
ReplyDeleteyes, kwame. his assailants were certainly more evil that he.
DeleteBut unfortunately they all go scot free!
DeleteWow, I guess the ass whopping wasn't enough.
ReplyDeleteshockingly, raine, shockingly...
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