NIGERIAN YOUTHS SPEAK AGAINST JUNGLE JUSTICE
Last week, the picture of a boy, said to be eight years old, who was mobbed and killed for stealing garri took the social media by storm. While some people believe he was not eight years old as purported, some people believe the picture was only doctored. But be it true or not, it does not stop the fact that we have cases on jungle justice here and there all over Africa. Just some years back, 4 innocent students were beaten to death in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, by a mob, who believed they were armed robbers. It is in this regard that Nigerian youths take SRAF, a WhatsApp group to express their thoughts about jungle justice. The discussion which took place on the 20 th November, 2016 was moderated by Soul’e Rhymez , a Poet and Public speaker from Nigeria. According to Adeniyi Maryam, a student from Osun State, who opened the floor on the night, Jungle justice is nothing to write home about. People pass jungle justice in order to get justice for themselves, so they say, bu...