A young man
identified as Abdulmalik Kabir Yaro who lost
his brother to cancer about 4-weeks ago has been beaten to death by gang
members in Katsina State.
Narrating
the sad events, Facebook user Maiwada Dammallam shared details of his
death and events that led to it.
Read
below...
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 barely 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?
What's missing in the system that people don't seem afraid to commit grievous
offenses that hitherto, we watched only in western movies? We are slowly
inching towards a lawless society for lack of willingness to implement our
punitive laws scripted to curtail and control criminality. Most laws in Nigeria
are mere decoration; made ineffective by our cumbersome judicial system. I'm
sure the murderous of Abdulmalik would have had a second thought before his
murder had they watched a convicted murderer hanged to death for his 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 tragic lost of a
promising son when in yet to overcome the pain of an earlier. Allah ya jikanshi
da rahama.
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