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| Is jungle justice right? Should that be the ought? |
Efio-Ita Nyok|19 June 2017
Yesterday, 18th June will go down our sordid history as the day three alleged criminals met with their fatal waterloo at Edim Otop, Calabar NegroidHaven has gathered.
Between 1PM to 3PM, an alleged notorious armed robber with a squad of two were burnt to death at Edim Otop market popularly called Udua Nyom Ebe after an alleged failed robbery attempt.
These three musketeers terrorised the vicinity with robbery employing diabolical assistance like charms that makes them disappear when efforts are made to apprehend him. Luck seem to have eluded them yesterday as they fell to the cold hands of jungle justice. Hmm!
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| These three pictures were taken at Edim Otop market popularly called Udua Nyom Ebe |
Incidentally, the Department of State Security (DSS) state headquarters is just a stone throw away from the scene of this lawlessness; also, the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) divisional headquarters is also stone throw away; likewise a stand-by Quick Intervention Squad (QIS) team set up at Atimbo junction with a calculated response time of 3 minutes; while a paramilitary Immigration facility also bordering that axis at IBB Way didn’t respond to the carnage.
I make bold to say that we now have a disoriented military and paramilitary institution: it’s either the DSS is venting itself against innocent teachers at FGGC, or the police is fighting for supremacy with sister military organisations like the Navy or even Army and Airforce.
We now have a society whose conservative value for the dignity of human life has been completely eroded by whatever.
Finally, beginning from the sorry end of the ever-sleeping administration of Governor Liyel Imoke through to the shoki-dancing, dis-enterprising era of Governor Ben Ayade, Cross River has never had it so bad security wise. Where is the monthly N600 million unaccounted security vote for CRS? What is it used for? We need answers.
Efio-Ita Nyok
Is a Blogger, the Editor & Publisher of NegroidHaven
