23rd November, 2016
An Ilorin based legal practitioner, Mr Adeoye Are has called on the National Assembly to facilitate a bill against jungle justice to serve as a deterrent to perpetrators.
He said in Ilorin on Wednesday that it was important due to the increased cases of such crimes in the country.
He said it was high time people got punished for taking laws into their hands.
“The rising cases of jungle justice are becoming worrisome and it is better our lawmakers move a bill against such.
“People have to be punished for taking laws into their hands because we are in a sane society but people are behaving like animals.
“So, I think it is until it is formally made illegal and perpetrators get punished for it before they take the campaign against it seriously,’’ Are said.
The legal practitioner described the act as purely man’s inhumanity to fellow man which should be discouraged.
“No matter the kind of grievous act anybody might have done, no one deserves to die by beating and burning to death.
“And those that engage in such are not in any way better than the so-called criminals because they have also committed a crime by taking lives.
“So, it behoves on the lawmakers to help us out on this,’’ Are said.