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Old Dec 3, 2008 , 12:58 PM   # 7 (permalink)
Default Re: A Man Comments On The Jos Riots On BBC



The man said the crisis would just peter out as most things in Nigeria - no police investigations, no commissions of enquiry, no inquests for the dead, that even half of the dead might not be identified, and that within a couple of weeks or so it would be business as usual, that Nigerian leaders have grown smug and callous with inaction and irresponsibility.
PW is quite right. The only headline today on the riot in Jos was how UMYA snubbed Jang the governor of Plateau state. I am sure by tomorrow nothing would be mentioned apart from some columnists & readers reactions.

The greatest problem we have is that people just don't pay for their crimes in our society. Tens of thousands have been killed, double that injured, maimed & scarred for life, buildings & properties destroyed to the tunes of Billions.
Yet no one has been sentenced. Rwanda even had it's criminal justice system apart from the World Court that has tried & sentenced the perpetrators of the genocide. These trials are still ongoing.
We are just callous & insensitive. From Zaki Biam, Odi, Kano, Kaduna, Jos, Bauchi, Maiduguri etc the killers are just walking about free ready for the next crisis.

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