By Zayd Ibn Isah I have come across many quotes on mob justice, but none resonate with my conscience quite like this powerful statement by the American politician and lawyer, Robert F. Kennedy: “What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet. No…
To say that jungle justice has become a recurring issue in Nigeria is to state the obvious. I am disheartened by the gruesome stories of mob lynching that occur across different parts of the country. Regardless of a person's age or their alleged crime, we must strive to be more tolerant and law-abiding.
According to a survey conducted in 2014 by NOI Polls, 43% of Nigerians have personally witnessed a mob attack. According to SB Morgen's report, 279 mob justice incidents happened, leading to the death of at least 391 individuals between 2019 and May 2022, of which 223 of the cases happened in the South while the remaining 168 occurred in the Northern part of the country. This in fact is to say that the menace of jungle justice is not ending any time soon, we are still counting numbers.
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