A Facebook user
has revealed how a young man Abdulmalik Kabir Yaro, was beaten to death
by a Local Gang because of his effort to stop the said gang from seeing
his younger sister who’s hardly the age of courtship, and this happened
to him just four weeks after losing his younger brother to cancer.
The young man Abdulmalik Kabir Yaro was cornered by the local gang
and was beaten to a pulp and he gave up the ghost before he could have
access to medical care.
Read the Post on Facebook below ;
YET ANOTHER SENSELESS MURDER – Maiwada Dammallam
This is Abdulmalik Kabir Yaro, a wonderful son of my friend from
childhood. Abdulmalik lost his younger brother to leukemia about 4 weeks
ago. This morning he’s dead, killed (read, executed) by a local gang.
Abdulmalik’s offense which earned him death sentence in the court of
this gang was his effort to stop the wayward gang from seeing his young
sister who’s hardly the age of courtship.
The gang somehow cornered Abdulmalik and beat him up to pulp
yesterday. He was rushed to the hospital in coma and gave up the ghost
today around 11 am. This is not in Katsina, Kano, Lagos or Port
Harcourt, this happened in the heart of Malumfashi, my sweet serene
hometown. I’m devastated!
That the victim was my son while my hometown was the theatre of this
ungodly violence, made it even more disturbing. That it’s another crime
induced by passion and possibly drugs when Nigeria is debating
yesterday’s callous murder of a young man by his wife in a case of
domestic violence made it even more tragic and cause for concern.
Where are we heading? Why is murder becoming a cheap option for
conflict resolution among the youth? What’s missing in the system that
people don’t seem afraid to commit grievous offenses that hitherto, were
seen only in western movies? We are slowly inching towards a lawless
society for lack of political will to implement punitive laws scripted
for our country to curtail and control criminality. Most laws in Nigeria
are mere decoration on dusty shelves in courtrooms; made ineffective by
a cumbersome judicial system. I’m sure the murderers of Abdulmalik
would have had a second thought before his murder had they watched a
convicted murderer hanged to death for the offense. Sadly, all they have
to stimulate their respect for the law were countless stories of
murderers getting away with murders due to a mixture of clumsiness and
cunningness of our judicial system.
It’s sad that a cry for justice in Nigeria is a cry that only the
victim could hear. Our courts are more like a sanctuary for criminals
than for their victims. With money, one could get away with almost any
crime imaginable under the sun. Good cases were lost to judicial
technicalities that have no relevance to the facts of the case. Only in
Nigeria would a criminal like Evans who made billions in ransom from his
kidnapped victims (some of whom were killed by him anyway) would battle
the court to enforce his “human right”. It should make sense that
people are resorting to improvised laws to deal with criminality.
Thanks to the inefficacy of our justice system, individual
communities have designed laws that are already being implemented in
full to dispense speedy justice. Thieves of all grades and categories
are roasted by the roadside to circumvent the cumbersomeness of our
justice system in most states in the Southern part of the country. It’s
only a matter of time before other parts of the country borrow and
tailor the system to suit their needs. The only antidote for such likely
crisis is a wholistic review of the justice system to make more
compliant and user friendly.
My heartfelt condolence to the parents of Abdulmalik for the tragic
lost of another promising son when yet to overcome the pain of an
earlier bereavement. Allah ya jikanshi da rahama.