In the year 2014, Nigerian youths who use smartphones, digital cameras, and some of who have probably flown in aircrafts, drive cars, being driven in cars and trains, who have refrigerators at home and most probably have access to computers, the internet and the social media....
...accused an 80-year old woman of being a witch, who had turned herself into a black bird and flown from Ibadan to Lagos.
They descended on her and beat her to a pulp.
They attempted to take her life, but were stopped by the actions of another aged man who most probably does not use computers or even the social media.
This is Nigeria.
If you live in Nigeria, are on twitter or facebook, open your page to the public, and do not take time out to talk to your crowds of friends, and your audience about the REAL Nigerian problem, and instead think PDP, APC, Chibok, Putin, Obama, western imperialism, and whether girls wear weave-on or bra is the problem to dwell on, I have immense pity for you.
You might be a walking dead, and not know it.
If you do not look like a witch, or like a thief...or even walk on the streets, and so feel invulnerable....it is my fervent hope on your behalf that you do not one fine day ever have someone unexpectedly dashes in front of your moving vehicle, and get knocked them down as the natural laws of physics would most likely allow.
May this not happen to you, because you definitely might never have even the opportunity to be smug for just one more second of your life.
It is time to return the power of retribution for offenses by citizens back to the proper places....the courts of law and the police stations.
This campaign needs your voice.
Bring it. Speak out against #mobjustice today. You might not have a tomorrow to do this. -
Temidayo Ahanmisi.
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