THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST JUNGLE JUSTICE.

Marilyn Oma Anona, a young Nigerian woman talk show host, public speaker, media and social entrepreneur leads the campaign against jungle justice in Nigeria.

First, what is jungle justice?

Jungle justice or mob justice is a form of public extrajudicial killings in Sub-Saharan Africa, most notably Nigeria and Cameroon, where an alleged criminal is humiliated, beaten or summarily executed by a crowd or vigilantes.

These victims are not given fair hearing, and at the end of the day most of them are innocent. 

The most worrisome aspect of this practice is that people gather and look on as though it is a blockbuster Stage performance.

The spectators are as guilty.

We all expressed our pains and disappointment at xenophobia. I ask, what is he difference between xenophobic attacks and jungle justice?

Jungle justice over the past few years have increased at an alarming rate. Daily, people are killed. Statistics state that more than 50% of the victims of jungle justice were later found out to be innocent.

Which makes this practice not only inhuman and barbaric but unjustifiable.

Jungle justice has not in any way curbed or reduced crime. It has instead aggravated lawlessness, insecurity and hatred amongst us.

When we talk of Jungle justice cases like the ALUU4, the woman beheaded in Kano, the bakassi boys of Aba, the gay boys burnt in Ondo state, Ghanaian soldier who was lynched for nothing in Accra and the recent Ikorodu mobbing and lynching particularly the upcoming comedian "Chinedu Paul" readily come to our minds.

Why jungle justice?

Many of us are disappointed in the system. It has failed us a lot of times. But does that make jungle justice an alternative?

No!

The citizens of Nigeria and Africa should concentrate on making sure that our laws are implemented or reformed where need be.

They should clamour instead for the total overhauling and rehabilitation of the POLICE FORCE.

Jungle justice is no justice, has never brought justice, encourages lawlessness and destabilises the system even more.

Through this campaign, Marilyn Oma Anona is calling on the government to step up and boost the confidence of the people by making sure that our laws are implemented.

The police force should undergo serious rehabilitation.

The national orientation agency should actually start working to see that the masses are sensitised and educated on the implications of some of the things they do.

The legal system should be more active and truthful. 

Lastly, there should be punishment for perpetrators of Jungle justice. Everyone should be responsible. We can't all be nonchalant. There should be a law to arrest every resident of any neighbourhood where jungle justice was carried out or an order for shoot at sight.

Jungle justice is wrong.

It should stop.

There have been several situations where someone was accused of a crime but given time, the truth manifested.

What if they were killed?

Crime cannot eradicate crime...

And jungle justice is even worse than criminal!

Enough is enough!!!

Say no to jungle justice.