TIME FOR JUNGLE JUSTICE ON CORRUPTION

How long are the working people going to wait before they tackle corruption in high places? The students that used to lead revolts in Nigeria are too complacent since their parents can afford to send them to universities anywhere are busy milking the Country. If revolution is too drastic on both the innocent and the guilty, jungle justice with all its faults is better targeted to the money bags we know living ostentatiously in our face.

Regrettably, corruption has become number one drive to outrageous inflation and no matter how much wage is demanded, the working class cannot catch up since money bags buy up materials without sweating for the money they spend. In a country where 69% of the people live on less than 300 naira a day by local statistic, there is very little they can buy with their salary. So the bread winners leave home early to avoid daily responsibilities and demands for “chop-money” from their spouses and children.

Most Nigerians are still intolerable of corruption, yet it is so wide spread amongst the Vagabond In Power one would think everyone on the street lives by it. The fact is most Nigerians are so hard working, even a visitor in the Country can notice it on the street where common people struggle from dusk to dawn eking out a living. Jungle justice is usually disproportionately rendered as deterrent to petty thieves, not by the worth of the stolen goods but by the pain and frustration of its loss to the owners, as deterrent.

When men of substance and caliber start calling for a revolution, we know something has gone wrong in the country of rogues with special privileges. Revolution is even worse than jungle justice. Revolution consumes the guilty and the innocent but jungle justice is by people's court and their abuse against the innocent is less than mass killing in a revolution. People use grudge against innocent enemies all the time including EFCC.

The argument has always been that Bar Beach Show when armed robbers were shot by firing squad did not reduce crime, but it did reduce the number of armed robbers. The same folks that condemned humiliation of rogues like the Thief of Police Tafa Balogun without due process, are the ones stealing the treasury blind indicating that they are only pleading their cases in advance before their day when caught redhanded.

No country in the world applies due process to a cancer that threatens it very existence be it corruption, terrorism or economic wizards in the stock market and financial houses without bringing them down first. The amount of money reserve for compensation if the system is wrong is much less than the amount of money stolen or deadly blows suffered by looking the other way while the country burns.

Nigerians will abuse any system or take advantage of any privilege in the name of due process and come out on top. The bottom line is what is lost bleeding the country to death and what is gained by compensating overzealousness on the part of vigorous prosecution and jungle justice by people on the street that had enough. Usually, the public is slow to react and when they react, it turns into revolution.

It is up to us if we want to wait for revolution that will consume everybody if guilty or not, or jungle justice administered to petty hungry thieves on the streets instead of big time crooks in states and Federal capitals. Nobody realizes it more than politicians and that is why they keep on throwing curves on our path encouraging Boko Haram instead of Riba Haram that will catch them red handed whenever they show their face in public.

Unfortunately, Nigerians apply a different standard to those that steal substantially in people's face and parade it contentiously and flamboyantly at gatherings to spite one another and the poor. If the same jungle justice that is applied to the petty thieves on the streets is applied to those in power, corruption will be dramatically reduced because of the stigma and the fear of being lynched publicly. On the same street where they should be lynched, they closed it to celebrate “success”.

Oteh and Hembe are not the first neither would they be the last. Probing of Federal Pension and other financial institutions will yield nada at the end of the day. If you Tarka me, I will Dabor you, did not stop tit-for-tat exposure nor did it end with OBJ-Atiku Show. But very serious cancerous disease infiltrating the very nerve of Nigeria is seen as entertainment or a joke in the vulture circles while the common man wonders if it will ever end. Well, it will not end until the man and woman on the streets are mad enough.

So mad, that they start jungle justice on their appropriate oppressors. Former Speaker Bank-ole, a cat looking for meat, used to inform us about how much was stolen by past governments. Senate and representative members pardoned one another. There are defenders of Abacha today claiming that he never stole a kobo while our children listen, watch Ibori and Alamsco. Ebele cuddles politicians like salary Santa. Youths watching, demand their share or opportunity to loot. Where is the deterrent in all these?

Corruption is no more hidden, no more an option but a demand or your life is in danger. The trickle obsession with bribes is publicly displaced on the streets by Police and Army demanding 20 naira and in some cases, public execution of those that dare defy them. It remains to be seen how long the directive of the Chief of Police to stop road blocks turned into menace, sticks. You cannot get a file clerk in the ministry to do the work he is paid for without greasing his palm.

Nigeria has been turned into a country where state leaders shamelessly demand money without generating internal products or effort for compensation. Africans watch in amazement wondering how many millions, billions and trillions there are in Nigeria before the oil well runs dry. Sometimes a drunken sailor comes to his senses, not those in charge of our Treasury. They demand more benefits and salary by legal looting, get more privileges while they dare anyone to remove them.

Source: Farouk Martins Aresa
Story from The Nigerian Voice News:
http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/85741/1/time-for-jungle-justice-on-corruption.html

Published: Wednesday, March 21, 2012

corruption can only be corrected by putting rules in place and ENFORCING them.

let's encourage our leaders to put instruments in place for law enforcement. Laws exist for a reason.
Anybody (even me) can be tempted to act in a corrupt manner if I know I will get away with it. But if I know that there is consequence for wrong doing, I will desist from the corrupt action. And of course, the consequence has to be fair. This is where jungle justice has a caveat. It is never fair and almost always irrationally carried out. In fact, it makes matters much worse.

if you dont go the jungle justice way they never learn.
they intentionally loot, they dont deserve mercy.

kunlekunle: if you dont go the jungle justice way they never learn.
they intentionally loot, they dont deserve mercy.

so who will carry out the jungle jusice. isn't it the same corrupt Nigerians? Just like EFCC or MEND. thieves trying to punish other thieves.
corruption is corruption. Just because one corrupt person is a politician doesn't mean he is any worse than a corrupt mechanic.
even YOU or ME might do the same if we were in those politicians' shoes.we just don't have that opportunity so we think we are corrupt free.we are not.
We need to follow a set of rules and anybody who doesn't follow the rules will be punished fairly through the legal process. that's how civilized people do it through checks and balances.
Jungle justice is just a continuation of a LAWLESS SOCIETY. The people pointing the fingers are corrupt themselves. let's not turn our blessed country into Somalia abeg.

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so who will carry out the jungle jusice. isn't it the same corrupt Nigerians? Just like EFCC or MEND. thieves trying to punish other thieves.
corruption is corruption. Just because one corrupt person is a politician doesn't mean he is any worse than a corrupt mechanic.
even YOU or ME might do the same if we were in those politicians' shoes.we just don't have that opportunity so we think we are corrupt free.we are not.
We need to follow a set of rules and anybody who doesn't follow the rules will be punished fairly through the legal process. that's how civilized people do it through checks and balances.
Jungle justice is just a continuation of a LAWLESS SOCIETY. The people pointing the fingers are corrupt themselves. let's not turn our blessed country into Somalia abeg.

you are asking who will carry out the jungle justice. what a question. when it starts, you will know who and who are involved. we watching and waiting for the right time. we know them, we know what they do.

Here we go again. People pleading for due process. When they kill children and their babies with hunger, who give these victims due process? When soldiers and police kill for 20 naira on the streets, who give their victims due process. When Nigerians run out of their own country and die in the desert with babies in their hands or in water trying to cross, who gave them due process?

But when it comes to the greatest looters of all, some people plea for due process. Wont it be nice if petty thieves in the market get due process. Who decides jungle justice? The same people that decide jungle justice for petty and hungry thieves in the market.

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so who will carry out the jungle jusice. isn't it the same corrupt Nigerians? Just like EFCC or MEND. thieves trying to punish other thieves.
corruption is corruption. Just because one corrupt person is a politician doesn't mean he is any worse than a corrupt mechanic.
even YOU or ME might do the same if we were in those politicians' shoes.we just don't have that opportunity so we think we are corrupt free.we are not.
We need to follow a set of rules and anybody who doesn't follow the rules will be punished fairly through the legal process. that's how civilized people do it through checks and balances.
Jungle justice is just a continuation of a LAWLESS SOCIETY. The people pointing the fingers are corrupt themselves. let's not turn our blessed country into Somalia abeg.

you learn from history so you dont make errors in repeating them.
the nigerian poliry now is oligarchy and not democracy. the system has been hijacked so you need to chase them out.
credible ones cant get their

Children of the looter hiding their parents from jungle justice will also be dealt with by the same people that administer it to common thieves.

this thread is full of armed robbers and kidnappers in the making.
Jungle justice my azz. bunch of barbarians

what we need is a War on Indiscipline. A clamp down on law breakers. If we really want to fight corruption, we should have voted for Buhari. But all you hypocrites didn't vote for him because you know you are part of the problem and scared of punishment.

Talk is cheap.