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You see these sets of people Criminals, Murderers, and Fraudsters? I can categorically tell you that they have no humanity left in them. Hence, there's nothing left for them to change to.
Just like the leopard can never change it's spot, they also cannot change from their evil ways. Because for starters, they know exactly what they are doing and the consequences of their actions, but they still carry on.
You know, I have seen cases where cultists who are released after doing some jail time, go back to cultism or other forms of criminality with the excuse, “this is the life I have come to know.”
Having being raised in the ghetto area where criminality and murder was the order of the day,
I can say that the only reason these inhumane people might promise to change when caught is just to escape death that moment and then continue with crime afterward.
These sets of people would often continue with the mindset that they will be more careful hence forth, never to repeat the same mistake that got them caught.
Moving on to a more decent environment, in no distance of time, the crime we were running away from came to find us.
There was a time my father was coming back home late, and he got attacked with his phone stolen. We were constantly living in fear, and it was so bad that if you are out until 8pm, just remain there.
But then, everything changed when they brought in a very brutal officer as the divisional police officer (DPO) in my area.
In that same environment, we have a river by the marketplace and during the time of the new DPO called officer slap, every morning when you go to the waterside, you'd see dead bodies of young boys floating in the water.
News soon came that the boys were the notorious bunch terrorizing the area, and the others who were perpetrators of minor crimes were arrested and made to provide building materials for the police station under renovation and repair at the time.
I kid you not when I say the notorious bunch, the cultist, criminals etc… All fled the area.
I have since come to the realization that the only thing humans fear is the death penalty because really no one wants to die in such a gruesome manner.
More so, the fear of being killed is the beginning of repentance for most of these criminals. Look at China today, it is like all their politicians have repented from their corrupt practices and now behaving well.
But then should it be all about killings? Are there other alternatives to ending criminal act, or at least reducing it to the barest minimum? Kindly read on.
I have always opined that Former President Goodluck Jonathan is the reason we are where we are today with terrorism in Nigeria.
Before Jonathan, we really had no idea what terrorism was, it was basically an unrest of the oil rich Ijaw ethnicity, (which is where he's from) fighting for their rights to oil.
These fight for development and the right to crude oil resources, prompted several illegal and violent movements plus clash with the Nigeria military.
Now, what I had expected Goodluck to do during his regime was use his veto power as President and transform the Niger Delta region into some sort of Utopia, first for tourist attractions and next for viability in terms of industrialization and job creation.
We have the resources we have the man power.
These would have massively curbed down on the civil unrest and violence in the region, since these things are offsprings of poverty.
So what did Jonathan do? Well, he publicly granted amnesty to gunmen of these violent groups, who were championing the civil unrest.
He used taxpayer's hard-earned money and created an Amnesty program responsible for the education and financial benefits of those in the region.
In return, we had numerous groups springing up to cause mayhem, especially in Northern Nigeria. You do not pamper crime, it will only spread.
When I talk about these things, people would go oh they are fighting for their rights and I would ask, our region is still in abject poverty, the Amnesty program and Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) meant for improved standard of living, especially for the poor has now been hijacked by the rich.
The poor people now need to pay some certain amount of money to benefit from a program that is meant for them.
More so, we still do not have a right to our oil, so why are these so-called freedom fighters and gunmen not still fighting? If really their intentions are pure and not born out of greed and criminality.
When faced with my point, these people who feel crime is justifiable often have nothing to say.
The painful part in all this is that, those gunmen granted amnesty and an opportunity to study abroad plus monthly financial upkeep, sold the amnesty slot and went back not to lift arms but continue with bunkering and pipeline vandalization.
If Jonathan at the time had developed the area for the benefit of the whole and then made these gunmen face the full wrath of the law, I bet Nigeria would have been so peaceful that we would be sleeping with both eyes closed.
