FROM MUMBAI WITH JUSTICE

jus·tice [jústiss] (plural jus·ti·ces) noun 1. fairness: fairness or reasonableness, especially in the way people are treated or decisions are made 2. validity: validity in law  "It doesn't matter the challenges faced by any nation, justice is key"  Justice is the reassurance of criminals not getting away with crime. The ability of any government to do this imbibes a tradition of trust in the citizens of the country and of the government of the day. Without this trust in place, there is  break down of law and order with a gradual decent into uncontrollable chaos.  On the 26th of November 2008, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab and nine others went on a killing spree lasting three days and killing 166 people during the rampage.  His plea for mercy was rejected by the Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who approved the death penalty as atonement for his crime. By so doing, today 21st of november 2012, India successfully redefined the meaning of justice by hanging Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab the only gunman to have survived the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai R.R. Patil, the home minister for the state of Maharashtra, where Mumbai is located said  “This is a tribute to all innocent people and police officers who lost their lives in this heinous attack on our nation” Though his death will not bring back the lives lost, neither will it mend the broken hearts of men and women who lost relatives friends and family members during the period. But what’s important is that  justice has been served The cliché of the world being a global village can not be underrated when stories like this bring out the injustice that occurs daily in this part of the global village, Nigeria to be specific.  The killing  of innocent people by the militant group boko haram continues without any solution in sight. The recent assassination of Dr Toyin Hamzat  a former Chairman of Ikeja local government (1999-2002) special adviser on local government affairs to former Lagos state governor Chief Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and also an ex special adviser to the present Lagos state governor Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola on health during Fashola's first tenure, now joins a long list of assassinations that create the initial 48hr frenzy and dies just as quickly. The reoccurring thefts of public funds by politicians and the elite in privileged positions without any justice ever been done. The walls of a dam, endure the pressure of the water it guards, but bursts when the pressure becomes too much and there’s no relief from opening of the gates of the dam,. Without any relief to the plight of the citizens of this great nation Nigeria. The walls that hold the dam, might not hold much longer.