If There Was Any Justice In The World.

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If there was any justice in this world, then I don't think it's resident in Nigeria. Money moves most people and it's shameful that we have reduced ourselves and humanity to be bought with money. Nothing is valuable again, in fact, lives are not so cheap that you can take it and go free. What has the world turned into?

I know every country have their own story of negligence and lack of justice but I can only speak from the angle of the one I've seen up close in Nigeria and I would say that there is no justice in this country. Justice is for those with no money but once you have money, forget it, you can wriggle your way out of anything.

I once saw how a seating senator harassed a salesgirl in a sex toy shop. He slapped the girl, disgraced her and did all sorts and yet the government didn't see it fit to unseat him or reprimand him for displaying a character that is not befitting for his office. Let a common man try the same thing he did, that's when you would see the Deputy Police Officer holding a press conference to address what a menace that person has constituted to the society.

The rich and influential seem to get away with everything and the common man can't go free. It looks like the rules are different for them than with everyone else yet they want others to uphold the laws they can't also uphold? No wonder it was said that civilization is in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command. Most of these people do as they like in Nigeria because they are not bound by the laws they created but they seem to adjust just fine when they travel outside the country. The problem is that we don't enforce our laws because when we start doing that, naturally, human nature would adapt to it.

The problem is mainly about greed and that is why you see youths shouting and clamouring for these aged people to lead us. Leaders should lead by example and yet these aged people can't even lead successfully without spending half of their term overseas for treatment. Imagine how terrible it looked for a seating president to travel outside the country for treatment when it is not as though there are no hospitals in his country.

Let's imagine that there are no fully equipped hospitals for his kind of ailment isn't that a perfect reason for him to introduce that so that those who can't afford to travel out can then seek help locally? I wouldn't be surprised if the constant travels on medical grounds were to launder money or maybe to hide the true state of the health issues the president is having. Who knows? Everything is a game to them and the citizens are pawns on their chessboard.

Once you have money and influence, you can bypass protocol. Others would shout and scream and you would still get what you want because they know all we can do is shout without really enforcing anything.

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A friend of mine reached out to me on Monday telling me how angry and ridiculous our police force is. There was this Civil Defence officer who ran over a bike man with his wife on the bike too. The man died instantly but the wife sustained serious head bruises. My friend happened to know the bike man and when she was told, she was hell-bent on making the officer pay for what he did. The man initially admitted his wrongs but I guess after the police spoke with him, they asked him to change his statement.

The policemen started saying the bike man was at fault (because he wasn't alive again to defend himself and the wife is still in the hospital). My friend told me this on Monday and I was really sad. She wasn't going to go down without a fight and just yesterday, she said that the officer who had this accident said he would pay 300,000 Naira ($535) for the family for their loss and also another 300,000 Naira ($535) to buy another bike for the family. I believe the police put him up to this because they felt the money would impress the family and since they don't have the means to drag a court case, then they want to appease them with money since "he is dead and nothing can be done again" - that's how they would think anyway.

A lot of things are wrong with this country and it's tiring. You are trying to make ends meet and yet you can't even be protected by the system or those who swore to protect lives and properties. It's disheartening and heart-wrenching. I can imagine how much he must have paid those police officers to help him get off the hook and swing things around. Humanity is getting lost and it is worrisome.

They have no regard for this man's family or how they must be feeling right now with the state they would be in especially knowing this man was the breadwinner of his family. It's really sad. There is a way justice at least make you know that your loss wasn't in vain.

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This post also appeared here and it's my original work on my blog on Read.Cash.

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Thank you for your time.

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