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Sir,

The right to take human life may belong to the State but it should not be such in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with institutionalised injustice. The judicial system has failed to deliver and has aggravated the general frustrations of a society that has increasingly come to feel that, for its grievances to be addressed adequately, it must take the law into its own hands. Where cities are always fighting against violence and crime it is not unusual for citizens to act as the police and the judge. The defeated yourself by thinking wrong things, wrong beliefs, wrong motives and wrong speaking. Holding onto hurt and wishing or praying that something bad happens to the person who has hurt you is like drinking poison and hoping that another person dies instead of you. This is because not forgiving the one who has hurt you is like drinking a weevil tablet and expect someone to die as a result of you drinking it.

Forgiving

Not forgiving someone chains you to your past and further poisons your future, and it keeps you away from what the Lord has in store for you in the future. protesters turn into a vigilante mob with ready justifications for murder.

Increase

The increase in mob justice is directly proportionate to the backlog of cases in courts. People are sceptical, and feel the Judiciary will fail them. People who are desperate for justice but are unable to access it, resort to take the law into their own hands.

The slowness of the judicial procedure, lack of police visibility and the lack of trust between police and local communities are some of the main drivers behind incidents of mob justice. Ethically, in a modern liberal democratic

society with the rule of law, such justice cannot be condoned and tolerated.

Societal intolerance and the growing despair of the lengthy and ineffective legal process have caused people to take out revenge on the petty criminals.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to criminal or irresponsible classes. Having checks and balances is a way to prevent the government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or developing an autocratic mob mentality.

The system of criminal justice should be upgraded on modern lines to ensure transparency and dispensation of speedy justice.

Worried civilian