Images
from the clip showing the jungle justice dished out on the ALUU 4 still haunts
me. The evil men that men do!! But face it, the victims are not those that
died, but those that live to witness such. The deceased have encountered the
worse of all human experiences; death. But those that live, still have life to
contend with and even worse, the unnecessary exposure of their minds to such
disturbing methods of
execution which might lead them to wonder "will I go like this?" (at
least on a subconscious level). When a mind is unleashed to conjour up such
thoughts, things change; people become jittery and weary of one another.
To protect from that which they fear, they change patterns of behaviour, become more smothering of their children, and after a long enough timeline, their lifestyle becomes a shadow of its original frame as every element of trust for the next man disappears leaving a dent within the fabric that holds the society together.
Maybe that is the only way I can understand how a nation of cashcrop farmers, with rich traditions and healthy appreciation of life, can morph into assassins, lynch mobs, rapists, and armed robbers.
Whether the boys are criminals or they are cultist is not what's most worrying. What's most worries me is that as a result of the complete lack of trust and continuous oppression within the society,there are very few Nigerians that could have been in that gathering of mob and stood against their act as the voice of reason.
Maybe Chinua Achebe had a point in his recent boy 'There was a Country'; maybe Nigeria does need to appease the Spirit of Biafra.
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