The legal system, given its limitation of course, is one of the means we have to ensure that justice is done and due punishment meted out when deserved. We all know how much we in Nigeria have gone through in the last few years due to the actions of people who have taken the law into their hands to enforce their warped idea on others and apply a twisted form of justice with mob attacks. There is no justice in such action because reason is suspended. With all this pondering, I came to the conclusion that the Edo State governor's call or 'jungle justice' or lynchings, was to put it mildly, misplaced and rather extreme. I say it is extreme because we all know that punishment should be imposed in accordance with the gravity of a crime.
Vandals are miscreants but they are human beings first.
It is extremely doubtful that the burning of a bus warrant the taking of a human life. This cannot be called natural justice, as the governor describes it, for it goes against nature. Also I do not quite see the connection between being a Third World country and the concept of natural justice which the governor has put forward. Being a Third World country does not make us any less human neither should it be a ticket to disorder. If someone has committed a crime, he is entitled to a fair trial in which he receives adequate punishment for his wrongdoing.