By Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie
“Everyone is talking
about crime. Tell me, who are the criminals?” So sang, more than forty years
ago, the Jamaican artiste Peter Torsh in his album “Equal rights”. Today, that
question has become extraordinarily pertinent in our beloved country Nigeria. Here
in Nigeria,
we talk of crimes: armed robbery, kidnapping, and now, murder by
herdsmen. But who and where are the criminals? Are we
pretending not to know them? And are we pretending not to know where
they are? But our God of JUSTICE looks on!
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| *Cardinal Okogie |
Nigerians are familiar with the drama of parade of suspects. On
prime time television, the police treats us to it. Some men and women are
apprehended by the police, made to sit by dangerous weapons, and paraded as
criminals. And the story ends there. We hear of no
prosecution, no conviction, no sentencing.
