By Barr. Sodiq Aderogba
Serious malady requires a serious remedy but only within the confine of the law.
The illegal demolition of the property used by the kidnapping gang in Ibadan is an Executive rascality that must be condemned.
Those who don’t know that it is difficult to sustain such an aberration must be educated.
Why don’t the government just kill those already arrested ? Why keeping them to be charged to court then? If tomorrow, another victim of kidnapping is kept in someone’s house, the people will demand that the house must be demolished whether or not the landlord is involved and the government must do so without a court order.
Nobody will listen to any explanation.
That is why this madness must not encouraged.That is why this is a bad precedent.
Whatever intelligence the government must have had as to the involvement of the owner of that property in the kidnapping must be published. We deserve to know the name of the landlord since some of the suspects are said to be mere agents.
The Oyo State government must publish all information and documents at their disposal which so much provoked the rascality and cannot wait to be tendered in court. This must be done or lest credence is given to the conspiracy theory of “government trying to cover up something”.
Even in Edo state where there is a valid law of the state permitting demolition, we have said it is a bad law that only promotes executive recklessness and undermines the rule of law.
Only with a valid order of court should such a house be demolished as it is only with the order of court that the suspects arrested can be jailed or killed.If the house must be confiscated or demolished, like the suspects arrested must be killed or jailed for life, then the court must pronounce same.
That is how a sane society is run!
