This gruesome way of dealing with criminals really must stop— so authorities in Nigeria are not in the known of this madness and barbarism or they share in this nonsense. The plausible I cannot deny is they are in concord with it, if otherwise why does it keep happening?.
I have personally written more than four articles on this fast emanating canker this very week and it is no where near funny.
Of course no one expect such a criminal to be given a luxurious treat but subjecting a criminal to such a heinous sentence is sickening. They are humans after all and as such deserving of the best treating ever possible.
A notorious rapist and paedophile identified as Badoo was apprehended in the Ikorodu area of Lagos state and burnt to death by an angry mob.
Khaleejtimes.com reports a 14-year-old pregnant girl was burnt to death by her in-laws in a remote area of central Ghor province, central Afghanistan. This is the latest reported case of violence against women in the country.
“She was a victim of family violence,” said General Mustafa Andarabi, the Police Chief of Ghor province. Zahra’s husband was involved in the incident, he added. He fled the house. However, we have Zahra’s father in-law and mother in-law in custody,” Andarabi said.
Committing any sort of crime is bad as it stands but subjecting criminals to a heinous sentence all in the name of punishing them and perhaps making sure people deter from similar crimes do not make it any right—two wrongs certainly cannot make a right.
These criminals do have rights too.
Police in the Brong-Ahafo Region say close to 13 persons have been burnt to death in a fatal accident at Wenchi on Monday dawn.
