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THE TWO FACES OF MOB ACTION IN NIGERIA

Mob action in Nigeria has been shaped to have two faces - black face and white face. It's a holy crime and also a sinful crime and all these are determined by who perpetrated it and where it's been perpetrated. Read the news below:

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Lagos mob burned two men to death for alleged phone theft.

NATIONAL RESPONSE:

No public outrage,
No Nigeria Police to arrest the perpetrators or anyone as suspect,
No curses heaped on the mob,
No clerics calling for nationwide protest,
No arrests nor condemnations from the authorities nor pledges to bring the perpetrators to book,
No conversion from one religion to another,
No sympathies to the victim's parents/relatives,
No congregational fastings and prayers on some hills to seek Divine justice for the victim,
No electronic and print media to echo the killings,
No debates, abuses, insults, assaults and threats on social and conventional media.

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Edo mob burned to death a suspected motorcycle thief in Benin City.

NATIONAL RESPONSE:

All the same, No national outrage,
No Nigeria Police to arrest the perpetrators or anyone as suspect,
No waste of saliva,
No one's bull got gored,
No human right concerns,
No Shehu Sanis,
The renowned human rights lawyer Femi Falana was not in town,
No CAN was ranting,
No Hassan Kukahs,
Obiagheli Ezekwesili wore a mouth seal,
Aisha Yesefus was fasting for activism,
No Nbakas to beat war drums,
No Divine power to multiply the souls of the Edo and Lagos mob victims,
No mother to weep in remembrance of the pains attached to child labour,
No public or private function was postponed in Lagos or Benin City,
No Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch to blink an eye in reaction,
No United Nations official to hiss at that jungle Justice,
No any other international dog that cared to bark against that killing.

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Sokoto mob lynched a college student for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad PBUH and set her corpse ablaze.

NATIONAL RESPONSE:

"It's barbaric", "It's animalistic", "it's wicked", "it's uncalled for", "it's condemnable", "it's criminal",
"The killers are Islamic jihaddists",
"They have no respect for human life",
"They are terrorists",
The Nigeria Police shot dead a Muslim protester in Sokoto,
Many Muslim protesters sustained bullet injuries from shots fired by the Nigeria Police in Sokoto,
Two suspects arrested in connection with the killing of the college student,
"I will leave Islam if the college student killers are not brought to justice",
Congregational fastings and prayers were held on Tafawa Balewa hills to seek Divine justice for the victim,
NBA postponed her conference scheduled to hold in Sokoto for the killing,
"If he's truly a God, why can't he fight for himself but humans fighting for him?"
The Federal Government has condemned the jungle justice in Sokoto and assured justice will be done,
President Buhari condemned the killing and called on relevant authorities to ensure justice is done,
CAN called for Nationwide protest by all christians,
CAN ordered all her state branches across the country to withdraw their participation from inter-religious council of Nigeria,
"This confirms the fact that there are plans to islamize Nigeria",
Father Mbaka asked southern christians to match up the North to avenge sister Deborah,
Ezekwesili immediately removed the mouth seal she wore immediately after the mob action in Lagos and Edo and demand justice for sister Deborah,
Aisha Yesefu broke her fasting and activated her activism to challenge the human rights violation in Sokoto,

INTERNATIONALLY

Human Rights Watch/ Amnesty International has condemned the mob justice in Sokoto and called on Nigerian authorities to bring the perpetrators to book, UN Deputy Secretary-general Amina Muhammad called on Nigerian authorities to punish the killers,

These are just a few of both peaceful and violent reactions that singled out the mob action in Sokoto and swiftly greeted it. Does that mean that when a jungle justice is perpetrated in Southern Nigeria is a holy crime, but it's a sinful crime when it happens in Northern Nigeria?

Though, it's true that religion is one of the biggest problems bedeviling Nigeria, but injustice is more dangerous than all other problems with religion inclusive.

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