The way the rate of crime goes up every day, makes me wonder if the people commiting these crimes knows about the consequences. I believe there is a consequence for any wrong against the law and I know how important it is for peace and sanity in the area but in this part of the world where I come from, there is so much injustice. The guilty are discharged and acquitted while the innocent are being wasted in jail for things they know nothing about.
There are two things I think that when it's committed, I won't count it as a crime. The first is when a hungry person steals food. I know that taking what doesn't belong to you is wrong and I'm not disputing that but when a person is very hungry who may not have eaten for days and has no one to help out steal a bread or any edibles. I won't count that as a crime. The person was only hungry and needed to be alive. It is now the fault of those around that person who didn't bother to help.
I heard the case of a young teenager who lives with his grandma. They had no family members and no one ever looked out for them. The young boy does a lot of mania jobs to take care of himself and his grandmother. So, one day grandma fell really sick and he tried to take care of her to the best of his understanding. There was no money to take her to the hospital.
The little money the young boy had left with him was what he took to the chemist to buy her some drugs while purchasing the drug he knew there was no food for grandma to take the drugs. so, while leaving the shop, he grabbed a bread and ran away. Unfortunately for him, the lady started shouting thief! thief!
They chased him and gave him a jungle justice before anyone could help him. He was beaten to death.
To me, such a crime is not a crime, it's the fault of a failed system. I also heard of a young undergraduate who was arrested over fifteen years ago for stealing a fowl and has been in jail since then. Does that even make sense? How can someone spend such long time in jail for such a crime? All is also as a result of a failed system.
The other crime is any crime I wouldn't consider as a crime is any crime committed out of self defense. I think this should not be considered as a crime but also as a means of saving oneself. Imagine someone trying to choke you now and your hand grabs an iron rod, what is the next thing? You hit the person without even thinking about the outcome until you are free. So, whatever happens to that person, even death is not considered as a crime to me.
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Yeah. I agree with you on this; the two crimes you mentioned above shouldn't be punishable to the offender, especially that quenching of hunger part.
With the way the economy of our nation is currently, things are getting difficult every day, and with the increase in cost of living, people are suffering out there with no food.
That is it, sis
I just hope it gets better.
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The way thieves are judged without proper investigation is annoying. Many people were destroyed for crimes that were not even worth a cane.
I feel for the young man in your story, our society needs to learn how to investigate thing before carrying out judgment.
We really need to learn that.
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Wow what a wonderful article,the way things are going in this our country now is something else,how will someone defend himself self from someone trying to kill him or her and the person will arrest because you end up hitting the person and the person die it becomes a crime in our country now.And people taking laws into their hands and become something normal in our community today, people no longer fear God,you burn someone to death or stone someone to death because of some loaf of bread.i pray that God put love in the heart of men.
That is it. There is no fear of God and there is no love. If not things won't be the way they are today.
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