seun-O:


boy,read my post diligently and do not mis-interpret my words.OR
do you hear me say boys wearing big chainz should be put to death or should be hanged and false pastors should be burnt,am only expressing my thought based on the topic.

LUDALOOLO:
And how will u feel if... the girl happen to be ur sister or daughter.

abysirius: Do u want him to walk home a free man? This devilish act needs to be corrected and dat's all. Killing d guy in my opinion is not even d best punishment for him, he should b jailed. A life imprisonment is better. @least, he go hear am b4 himsef die.

Remzolution: You sound lyk one of dos religious hypocrites...what if dat lil' girl ws ur daughter or sister? Justice of ds sort serves as deterrence against reckless n careless shootings. Do u knw hw many cases of manslaughtr by d police goes unpunishd? Ds one hr is bt one treatd out of a hundred if nt more!

shinken:
Killing him is to serve as a deterrant to others not to bring her back. Or put in crude language, wait till your mother(or any loved one) is killed before chanting '....makes the whole world blind'

gbadexy:
Killing the guy would act as a deterrent to prevent the police from killing someone else next time, someone that may be close to you.
Where in the world do you hear police shooting at a car for simply refusing to stop?
They are allowed to shoot if shot at first or they are armed, not shoot at a fleeing car. They can always chase the car or get the car description. Do you know how many people would be killed in U.S and U.K if their police shoots cars that refused to stop.

BetaThings:
1. You don't have to call anyone boy because your thoughts don't show advanced years

cos i know you are not a girl

2. If you post diligently, people will reward it with same.

And where in my post have i not write diligently?

3. The response is about this topic too.
Why should a policeman threaten people at checkpoints. This happens?
Why should policemen be shooting innocent people and get away with it

they are not getting away with it,like i have said earlier there are various ways of punishing offenders apart from sentencing to death.
Killing the police man will not bring back the dead to life. Partial list
Apo 6 (Abuja), Awosika (Lagos), This girl (Lagos), ThisDay's journalist (ThisDay)
The list is endless.

And we need to judge everyone (Pastors, Imams, whoever) and apply the law based on the offence (Murder, Fraud, Stealing etc). We should be equal before the law

vivacious vivi: Na wa for this kind of Kangaroo judgement o. Hanging someone when he didn't have an intention to kill? This is a case of manslaughter. By d way, how come we are still hanging those who hae been sentenced to death? this is the year 2012 and not 1950!

SimonAndal:
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I don't know that word, sorry. But answer me this, really: does killing the bloke bring the girl back to life? If so, go right ahead. If not, well that's murder. Two murders don't make a life.

*dhtml:
If i were the judge (bearing in mind that he has been sentenced already), i will sentence him to solitary confinement for 50 years - and he will only drink garri - even if the price of garri goes up in the market. . .

seun-O:


dear remz,

have you forgotten what God's word says "vengeance is mine........and i am going to reward each one according to its own deeds".

I am not one of those so-righteous as you have claimed but i believe there is another means of passing punishment other than killing cos God's word says "do not kill for you shall be killed"

damoobaba:
He should be given a pat on the back abi? So that Nigerian Policemen can now take their killing spree to the next level knowing fully they'll only spend some days in custody with their fellow police/warder frnds.Pls think before you type next time.

Pysam: Oh oh this is blood for blood God help us

naptu2: 1) Circa 1987, policemen at a check point at the junction of Adeniji Adele and Idumagbo Avenue shot at a danfo bus which they claimed refused to obey their order to stop (the danfo driver would later claim that the policemen tried to extort money from him). The bullets missed their target, instead hitting and killing Saka and Momodu Dawodu.

Lagos Island erupted in violence. Policemen had to ditch their uniform and change into mufti to avoid being lynched. The government was desperate to quell the riot because Lagos Island was just a few kilometres from the Presidency at Dodan Barracks. Reinforcements were called in. You would not believe the amount of tear gas that was released around Central Lagos (the tear gas lead to the death of Alhaji Lateef Jakande's father).

Two policemen were arrested. One pleaded guilty and was quickly hanged. The other pleaded not guilty, lost the case and appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. He was hanged in 1989.

2) This particular policeman faces a very long time on death row, because the government cannot hang him. According to law, only a licensed hangman, who has gone to the hangman school, can hang a person sentenced to death in Nigeria. There are no licensed hangmen in Nigeria. The last time somebody was hanged in Nigeria was in 1995 (Ken Saro-Wiwa and colleagues). A licensed hangman was brought in from Ghana to hang them. There are no licensed hangmen in Ghana anymore. Since then, everybody that has been sentenced to death in Nigeria has had to spend an indefinite period on death row. A lawyer is trying to get all of them freed on the grounds that waiting indefinitely for death is cruel and inhuman punishment.

Note: Hanging is the only legal means of executing a person in Nigeria. The military used death by firing squad, but that means of executing a person is not in our statute books.

SimonAndal:
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I don't know that word, sorry. But answer me this, really: does killing the bloke bring the girl back to life? If so, go right ahead. If not, well that's murder. Two murders don't make a life.

uncleb:

Please can we get volunteers to go on this special course. I guess its one of the specialty we need to curb all the evil practices in the country.

We also need info on schools that offers them and govt should be willing to give scholarship sponsors. otherwise, our constitution or whatvere should be changed with immediate alacrity. lol

[size=14pt]Hangmen wanted![/size]

Are you keen on a job? Do you have a killer instinct? If you do, then this job suits you! It even gives you the legal authority to loop a noose round the neck of fellow human beings, and snuff life out of them.

As with James Bond in the epic series - 007 - you are licensed to kill. Here, the people who do this kind of job are called Hangmen! That’s the type available right now. The pay, it has been touted, is “good”, but it requires guts, courage and boldness. Beyond that, however, you have to possess a degree in Criminology.

Around the country’s prisons formations right now, there is a dearth of Hangmen - professional executioners, that is. Which explains why there are hundreds of condemned criminals awaiting execution at the moment.

Only last week, 27 of such men on death row in kiri-kiri Maximum Prison alone, dragged both the Lagos State and Federal Governments to court challenging the constitutionality of keeping them in the gallows for periods ranging from 10 to 24 years. No date has yet been fixed for the hearing of the suit filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos.

But if you ever imagined that most Nigerians would shrug their shoulders over the suggestion of taking a job at the gallows, here is a shocker. Sunday Sun learnt at the weekend that there has been a deluge of applications by Nigerians who have suffered unemployment for years.

Justifying the need to hire more executioners, a source said: “The Service is in dire need of the services of Hangmen. Right now, there are about four hangmen in the country. Their services are needed now, more than ever before. Imagine how many condemned criminals are in the cells as we speak, so they are needed.”

Although the job is usually reserved for serving prisons officials, Sunday Sun however learnt that somehow, outsiders got wind of the vacancies, and are already showing interest in the job; even lobbying to be hired.


Ideal situation

A source revealed that Hangmen are usually serving Prisons officials, who double as executioners. They are never publicly acknowledged in the latter category. Nonetheless, they are believed to be “well remunerated”.

The veil over their identities, a source suggested, is to protect them from odium and public ridicule.
“Yes, they are our colleagues, but I can’t honestly point at one person and say, ‘this officer is a Hangman’. We do not know their identities. So you might just be sitting and chatting with a colleague without knowing that he is a Hangman. That’s the way it is,” the source said.

Confirming what the source told Sunday Sun, the Prisons Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, CSP Ope Fatinikun said the Hangmen issue is an in-house matter, which must not be revealed to outsiders, even among their colleagues. He further said, any prison warder could be appointed a hangman because it is part of their training.

The PRO said the identities of hangmen are usually kept under wrap. They are only summoned to the gallows when there is an ‘assignment’ to be done. Even then, they usually wear masks.
What is curious, however, is the criterion attached to the job: They must be graduates of Criminology.


Psychiatrist’s opinion

So why would anybody want to do the job of a Hangman?
A Principal Clinical Psychologist, Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, Mr. Ajirotutu Omotayo, said: “a hangman must be a hard-hearted person who does not have emotions for human lives nor have value for live. Such a person must be someone who takes decisions without looking back; thinking that the convict must have killed unlawfully, therefore killing him lawfully is no sin.”
Mr. Omotayo further argued that for any person to do the job of a hangman, he must have gone through a period of apprenticeship, understudying other, adding that they must take a thorough counseling and psychological therapy.

Nonetheless, he said, “no matter how fat their salary, the psychological effects are bound to be there, which varies from one person to another.”
Considering the unemployment situation in the country, who, in fact, would agree to be a Hangman?
Ordinarily, this is not the type of job, as Sunday Sun found out, that most people would be proud of. Which explains why, those who bought the idea, declined to have their names in print, let alone give out their photographs. Conversely, those who expressed disdain for the job had no inhibition whatsoever giving out either their names or photograph.

SimonAndal:
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I don't know that word, sorry. But answer me this, really: does killing the bloke bring the girl back to life? If so, go right ahead. If not, well that's murder. Two murders don't make a life.

StarFlux: While this is a terrible crime, killing Okechukwu Nwabueze, as he is called, is wrong. I don't understand why anyone would want more blood shed for the already shed blood.

It is as the Yoruba proverb says: obo ni yo para e. This man, in a sense, already killed himself when foolishly shooting an innocent girl. Whether it be physical or mentally, remains to be seen. If there is no regret, then he should be put on life time and we should leave the rest to God.