My very last post was on the death of late Adegoke, the OAU postgraduate student who died at Hilton Hotel and Resort in Ile Ife.
Among other things, I commiserated with family and friends of the deceased.
I then went on to advise that the accused should not be given a media trial. In many cases, when an accident has been judged in the court of public opinion and the court acquits them, they find it difficult to be free in the court of public opinion.
Not only that, members of their family bear a lot of the brunt.
Apart from that, being tried in the court of public opinion is next to jungle justice.
There’s nothing to beat being tried in a properly constituted court.
Some of the contributors would have none f that. They felt it was right. However, after trying an accused via the social media, what comes of if?
I know Nigerian courts are not the beat of places to get justice when compared with the advanced countries. But no system iz perfect.
Check out the USA where Malcolm X was
assassinated in 1965. Two men convicted of the killing were acquitted of the offense last week.
Furthermore, a judicial system is what the people make it.
Anyone who believes in media trial over and above a properly constituted court is only a mischief maker.
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