Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Anger Waiting for a Cause in the City of Accra

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.

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  1. Good old Ghana Justice, I agree with it as long as the pep is not killed.

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    1. sorry, 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.

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    2. A 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.

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    3. But how can there be irrefutable evidence at that stage?

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    4. Wishful thinking on my part:)

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  2. drank the engine oil? Wtf. I'd have preferred to die.

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    1. i 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.

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  3. This is way above the crime or...?

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    1. yes. strong medicine. totally deplorable.

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  4. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu09 February, 2012

    A thief, yes, but this is a crime against his person.

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    1. yes, kwame. his assailants were certainly more evil that he.

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    2. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu10 February, 2012

      But unfortunately they all go scot free!

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  5. Wow, I guess the ass whopping wasn't enough.

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