“Radicalisation is not a switch that can be flicked off through vocational training and classroom lectures. It is a deep psychological and ideological transformation, often reinforced over years. To claim it can be reversed in 24 weeks requires a leap of faith that would be questionable even in the most controlled conditions. Yet here, the process is shrouded in secrecy. There is no public accounting for crimes and addressing offending behaviour, no transparent criteria for release, no visible mechanism for long-term monitoring to prevent recidivism. ” — Kachi Okezie
It sickens to the stomach. Only in the backwaters of Apocalypto should this kind of dystopia flourish with such vigour.. it beats every sane logic or sense…
If retribution is tied to every “sin” or immorality, or in mundane terms, every wrong, why does the system that ought to ensure that balance of “reward for action” get caught up in a frenzy to achieving the very opposite of this empirical truism?
In the same Nigerian state, a random thief in Oyo state gets 3 months for assaulting his victim in order to steal; in Borno state however, an equally young lad who has killed more than a dozen humans in the Boko-Haram professed religion-fueled and crazed holocaust killings, is rewarded with a reintegration into society it had torn its sane fabric!!
From the victims’ angle, it is much more odious to rational thinking: it is reprehensible and mind-less!!
‘Soga Bisuga Esq.
The Bisuga Partners,
47, Agege Motor Road,
Surulere, Lagos.
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