The Devaluation of Human Life in Nigeria

If you live in Nigeria, especially if you are a poor man or average income earner, you will realize that everyday is not just a gift but a struggle. Its almost like if everything is standing against you, forming a giant brick wall that prevents you from achieving anything that is above sub-par in your excruciating daily existence. Nigeria as a country is made up of a system that takes care of its own on the top hierarchy alone. The first thing you see when you walk into a court house in Nigeria is a the sculptured image of a woman whose eyes are covered by a piece of cloth carrying a scale in her right hand and a sword in the other, both of which are supposed to represent the neutral view point of the law, but in practicality the law is bias, the law is without blindfold and in only few cases is justice upheld.I am filled with righteous indignation every time i think of the mubi killings, the bomb blast and the victims that have gone with it, the plane crashes, the riots and the needless jungle justice, all of which that go unpunished, without proper investigation and is dismissed like an open and close case buried under layers of folders in three months. The mubi killings represent not just the level of degeneration of moral values and the values it represents in a country like ours, but the alarming failure of security operatives to provide necessary protection or backup and the failure of the system as a whole. This was followed up with the killing of the Aluu 4, which solidifies the claim that THE POLICE HAS GONE TO SLEEP and security and the duty of law and order has been taken up by individuals and mercenaries. I have witnessed jungle justice before as a kid, where a young man was burnt to death in Lagos for stealing tissue paper from a lady at a crowded bus-stop, the Police did not show up while the murder lasted for more than 40minutes, his dead body was deposited at the mortuary, no arrests were made, CASE CLOSED. POOR PEOPLE ARE IN TROUBLE in nigeria, because protection and safety of life is now for sale to the highest bidder and the life of the poor man is just a number in the millions of Nigerians who have no safety but God. Maybe the government is waiting for a state of national anarchy and civil unrest to take action, because i have realised that the government responds well to fire brigade approach and violence better than they do words>>>>>GOD SAVE US ALL