We URGE you to help stop the practice of mob lynching in Nigeria.
Almost daily, persons suspected of petty or serious crimes, including children, are subjected to the worst forms of brutal assault by mobs who take the law into their hands in apprehending, trying and convicting these suspects.
The mob actions often involve stripping the victims until they are stark naked, after which they are viciously beaten with sticks and all manner of cudgels until they die. Onmany occasions, used car tires (tyres) are hung around suspects’ necks and they are doused with gasoline (petrol) before being set ablaze while alive with onlookers standing by.
Thanks to the power of the Internet, information about these extra-judicial trials by angry mobs on the streets of Nigeria is shared on blogs and social media like Twitter and Facebook, revealing that these practices are more common than assumed. This year alone, several of such brutal applications of mob justice have occurred around Nigeria.
In a disturbing sign of how profoundly devalued human life has become in Nigeria, many Nigerians hardly react these days with any measure of outrage in instances of wanton death and destruction. Many have even attempted to excuse the horrendous acts of extra-judicial murder as a necessary and welcome response to the incapacity or ineptitude of law enforcement agencies. But nothing justifies the unleashing of death on people without trial in a properly constituted law court.
With your help we can put an end to these barbaric acts and ensure that legal processes are followed in the matter of arresting and prosecuting perpetrators of these obvious crimes.
We also seek to make sure that the Nigerian Police adheres strictly to the LEGAL processes in dealing with suspected criminals after arrests are made.
We are petitioning the following institutions and officials:
1. The Nigerian National Assembly
2. The Nigerian Inspector-General of Police
3. The Attorney-General of the Federation
4. State House of Assemblies
5. Governors and State Commissioners of Police
6. The Nigerian Presidency
Our Demands:
Make lynching a Federal crime, but also pass anti-lynching statutes in all States of the federation; the intended enactment must provide incentives for informants who witness and document such acts.
Restore confidence in the judiciary by prosecuting participants in any mob action.
Equip and train the police to do a better job of investigating crimes in general, and in arresting as well as arraigning suspects accused of committing crime.
The standards for recruitment and training of police officers should be significantly improved. Create a modernized police force fully equipped that can respond immediately when citizens call to report crimes in progress.
Investigate matters regarding casesof criminality,abuse of office and police brutality within the NPF and provide transparency in these cases.
Register all vigilante groups and offer enlightenment training to such groups.
Design and offer a sustained public education and enlightenment that discourages the crime of lynching.
We encourage you to sign this petition and to join us in compelling the Nigerian authorities to end bestial acts that debase our humanity and project a barbaric image of Nigeria. Help stand for human decency and the rule of law in Nigeria.
Thank You.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
October 16, 2012
October 15, 2012
The Nigerian authorities are ignoring the burning bodies in our streets while we climb toward 250 signatures. Get this in front of everyone you know right now because the state continues to fail its people by allowing this unchecked savagery to persist.
October 14, 2012
The momentum behind this petition proves that people are finally refusing to look away from these barbaric public murders. Nigeria's authorities have relied on our silence to ignore this bloodshed for far too long, but they can no longer pretend this is invisible. We are forcing them to face the blood on their hands.
October 9, 2012
One hundred people have finally stepped up to condemn these barbaric street executions. The authorities remain silent while innocent lives are burned alive in our streets but this proves we are done looking away.
Reached 100 supporters
October 7, 2012
20 Comments
what is the world coming to when a child is lynched by his neighbors for such a ridiculous mistake. how can a 7 year old be judged so harshly, when there are adults who commit horrific crimes and still live and breath..this is such an unbelievable event..our children are the future of the world, without them, we will have no future at all...it is our responsibility to care for and teach our children, not murder and discard them like trash. history does repeat itself if allowed, let us stop it here and now and save our children's children...
Please make this horrific act a Federal crime. This is torture for something that does not warrant this type of action. Killing children for stealing something as simple as Garri should not be allowed. The murderers should be punished severely.
There has to be a better way to deal with injustice. Jungle justice is NEVER the way! Nigeria has failed its citizens, failed the sons of its soil on so many levels! It is almost as if there are no educated folks in that country. How did a country destined for greatness drop down to this level?? How? Where are the so called leaders of this country? Do you even care, do you? Let this petition be the turning point to lawlessness. It must STOP! Now!
we shouldn't take the law into our hands . pleae stop mob lynching in nigeria !!!!!
I think our government federal and state even the police have not done much to stop the nasty act of human lynching Nigeria. If we are a nation of law tell me why one will go to take the life of his fellow man because he commit a crime if a person can be lynched in Nigeria for a petty crime the what happen to all the politician stealing public fund and are living in our mid with out Nigerians laying a single hand on them.
This is very bad hmmmm...
Justice for my brothers
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We URGE you to help stop the practice of mob lynching in Nigeria.
Almost daily, persons suspected of petty or serious crimes, including children, are subjected to the worst forms of brutal assault by mobs who take the law into their hands in apprehending, trying and convicting these suspects.
The mob actions often involve stripping the victims until they are stark naked, after which they are viciously beaten with sticks and all manner of cudgels until they die. Onmany occasions, used car tires (tyres) are hung around suspects’ necks and they are doused with gasoline (petrol) before being set ablaze while alive with onlookers standing by.
Thanks to the power of the Internet, information about these extra-judicial trials by angry mobs on the streets of Nigeria is shared on blogs and social media like Twitter and Facebook, revealing that these practices are more common than assumed. This year alone, several of such brutal applications of mob justice have occurred around Nigeria.
In a disturbing sign of how profoundly devalued human life has become in Nigeria, many Nigerians hardly react these days with any measure of outrage in instances of wanton death and destruction. Many have even attempted to excuse the horrendous acts of extra-judicial murder as a necessary and welcome response to the incapacity or ineptitude of law enforcement agencies. But nothing justifies the unleashing of death on people without trial in a properly constituted law court.
With your help we can put an end to these barbaric acts and ensure that legal processes are followed in the matter of arresting and prosecuting perpetrators of these obvious crimes.
We also seek to make sure that the Nigerian Police adheres strictly to the LEGAL processes in dealing with suspected criminals after arrests are made.
We are petitioning the following institutions and officials:
1. The Nigerian National Assembly
2. The Nigerian Inspector-General of Police
3. The Attorney-General of the Federation
4. State House of Assemblies
5. Governors and State Commissioners of Police
6. The Nigerian Presidency
Our Demands:
Make lynching a Federal crime, but also pass anti-lynching statutes in all States of the federation; the intended enactment must provide incentives for informants who witness and document such acts.
Restore confidence in the judiciary by prosecuting participants in any mob action.
Equip and train the police to do a better job of investigating crimes in general, and in arresting as well as arraigning suspects accused of committing crime.
The standards for recruitment and training of police officers should be significantly improved. Create a modernized police force fully equipped that can respond immediately when citizens call to report crimes in progress.
Investigate matters regarding casesof criminality,abuse of office and police brutality within the NPF and provide transparency in these cases.
Register all vigilante groups and offer enlightenment training to such groups.
Design and offer a sustained public education and enlightenment that discourages the crime of lynching.
We encourage you to sign this petition and to join us in compelling the Nigerian authorities to end bestial acts that debase our humanity and project a barbaric image of Nigeria. Help stand for human decency and the rule of law in Nigeria.
Thank You.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
October 16, 2012
October 15, 2012
The Nigerian authorities are ignoring the burning bodies in our streets while we climb toward 250 signatures. Get this in front of everyone you know right now because the state continues to fail its people by allowing this unchecked savagery to persist.
October 14, 2012
The momentum behind this petition proves that people are finally refusing to look away from these barbaric public murders. Nigeria's authorities have relied on our silence to ignore this bloodshed for far too long, but they can no longer pretend this is invisible. We are forcing them to face the blood on their hands.
October 9, 2012
One hundred people have finally stepped up to condemn these barbaric street executions. The authorities remain silent while innocent lives are burned alive in our streets but this proves we are done looking away.
Reached 100 supporters
October 7, 2012
20 Comments
Mob justice must stop in nigeria, instead why don't the mob go after our corrupts leaders who steal billions of naira.
what is the world coming to when a child is lynched by his neighbors for such a ridiculous mistake. how can a 7 year old be judged so harshly, when there are adults who commit horrific crimes and still live and breath..this is such an unbelievable event..our children are the future of the world, without them, we will have no future at all...it is our responsibility to care for and teach our children, not murder and discard them like trash. history does repeat itself if allowed, let us stop it here and now and save our children's children...
Please make this horrific act a Federal crime. This is torture for something that does not warrant this type of action. Killing children for stealing something as simple as Garri should not be allowed. The murderers should be punished severely.
There has to be a better way to deal with injustice. Jungle justice is NEVER the way! Nigeria has failed its citizens, failed the sons of its soil on so many levels! It is almost as if there are no educated folks in that country. How did a country destined for greatness drop down to this level?? How? Where are the so called leaders of this country? Do you even care, do you? Let this petition be the turning point to lawlessness. It must STOP! Now!
we shouldn't take the law into our hands . pleae stop mob lynching in nigeria !!!!!
I think our government federal and state even the police have not done much to stop the nasty act of human lynching Nigeria. If we are a nation of law tell me why one will go to take the life of his fellow man because he commit a crime if a person can be lynched in Nigeria for a petty crime the what happen to all the politician stealing public fund and are living in our mid with out Nigerians laying a single hand on them.
This is very bad hmmmm...
Justice for my brothers
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