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What do you understand by jungle justice?
Jungle justice or mob justice is a form of public extrajudicial killings in Nigeria and Cameroon, where an alleged criminal is humiliated, beaten or summarily executed by a crowd or vigilantes.
What are the causes of jungle justice?
A research carried out by Mr Ilori, who is also a criminologist at the University of Ibadan, found that factors like insecurity, understaffed and ill-equipped police force are the drivers of jungle justice. An overwhelmed police make neighbourhoods seek the service of vigilante groups for local security.
What is mop justice?
Mob justice is when a person suspected to be a criminal is beaten by a group of people or crowd with clubs, stones, machetes, or anything they can lay their hands on. Mob justice, also known as ‘instant justice’ or ‘jungle justice’, occurs in various towns and cities in Ghana.
What is jungle justice and why is it bad?
Jungle Justice: A Vicious Violation Of Human Rights In Africa. Jungle justice is the concept and act of disregarding the rule of law and taking matters into one’s hands; more clearly put, it is the act of handing suspected criminals over to the hands and mercy of an angry mob.
What is jungle punishment in Africa?
Punishment is normally barbaric, usually involving stoning or burning of the unfortunate individuals in a public place. Cameroon and Nigeria are said to have the highest rate of jungle justice in Africa.
Is ‘jungle justice’ a form of human rights violation?
The answer is no; it never will. As a matter of truth, burning and gruesomely degrading human beings is a greater evil; it is an outright violation of human rights. Jungle justice reduces human life and dignity to zero and this is why some people can afford to call Africans barbarians.
Is mob justice a thing of the past in Sierra Leone?
Mob justice there was more frequent in the immediate aftermath of war than it is now, according to Valnora Edwin, who heads Campaign for Good Governance, a Sierra Leone-based NGO. But he said mobs could still allow themselves to be incited by suspected larceny.