What Can We Learn From Aluu ?

What happened to the 4 young men in the Aluu community happens very often in Nigeria, but its rarely caught on camera and the victims personal stories are rarely shared on the social network.

In effect, people think its their duty to take the law into their own hands thus making them judge, jury and executioner.
BUT NOW ! people are asking what sort of human beings are we becoming.... BECOMING? .

..ARE ! We have always been this way....what that community did is no different from the welcomed vigilantes like the Bakassi boys who unleashed their version of justice as they saw fit. They are no different from the executors of suspected thieves on the streets all over Nigeria and their goading spectators, no different from self proclaimed men and women of God who brand children as witches and so on .....and then, the reprisal attacks. WHEN DOES THIS STOP? Why has this not been addressed fully?
We continuously talk about our "democracy", A "democracy built on the rule of law", Isn't it closer to the truth that there is a growing number of Nigerians who have absolutely no regard for the rule of law?
Is it because there is a complete lack of trust in the Judiciary and people have resorted to jungle justice instead of allowing the "available" instruments of law to be applied to each case?

So here we are in 2012, where the regard for human life appears to be at its lowest. We risk falling into complete anarchy if we continue in this vein. The government has failed in its duty to maintain law and order, and in a society were there is no law n order people take it into their own hands.
The people need to be convinced that the police and the judiciary have the will and resources to deal with crime and protection of the citizenry.

We need to say NO to Jungle justice, whichever form it presents itself.

R.I.P Llyod Toku, Chiadikobi Biringa, Tekena Elkanah and Ugonna Obuzor