*JUNGLE JUSTUSES AND JUSTINAS*
Once, I was told the story of a certain lynch finisher that
lived somewhere on Lagos Island. Whenever a common thief was apprehended, the
mob, after beating, clubbing and cudgelling the alleged criminal, would usually
march the bloodied man to this 'self styled executioner's house.
To the admiration of the bloodthirsty mob, he would
forcefully administer a beverage of cement dissolved in water on the accused,
afterwhich, mob and executioner would let the poisoned man go, and watch him
gleefully as he staggers away to a horrible death.
After many years and many poisoned thieves, the People's
Exectioner lost all his friends. Even his wife and children fled from him. No
one wanted to be associated with the man with an ocean of blood dripping not
just from his hands but from his pale soul.
He died a depressed and lonely man!
Today, lynchings and extra judicial killings happen everyday
in every corner on every street. Stale news? Okay.
Unfortunately, many smartphone wielding persons with fevered
spirits, take their time to make movies out of the butchery of their fellow
man.
Scenes that would make our mothers grab their breasts, wrap
and unwrap their wrappers and wail their eyes out are now breaking news
photocapture excitement for many young persons.
I am not a psychologist, but could it be that watching too
many horror movies and playing video games with blood and gut themes, be
responsible for the dark numbness of the emotions of the god resident in every
human's bosom?
A man or/woman is being stripped naked and gradually torn to
shreds before eventual incineration and some youth who cannot spare a thread of
mercy, whip out their phones in a flourish to capture the painful last moments
of an unfortunate homo sapien.
The execution of the ALUU 4 and many more still live and
breathe in the cell phones of the Jungle Justus and Justina living amongst us.
They still watch it for entertainment! Sick!!!!
Arent their hands bloodied too? Is it not the same hands
that holds the phone that is clasped in prayer on Sunday at the Cathedral and
pulls on the Tesibau in the Mosque on Friday?
How do Jungle Justuses and Justinas sleep at night?
I once unknowingly peeped at one of such videos and had to
literally beg God to help me expunge the scenes from my head after months of
torture.
If you would desist and delete from recording and having
such videos in your phones respectively, then you might just save yourself from
some form of geriatric depression somewhere down the slope of your future.
I do not command but advise you as a friend because there
will be Judgement for Jungle Justices, Justuses and Justinas either here or the
hereafter or both.
Good morning.
KUNLE OMOPE.
Photo from google.com
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