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The reign of the Bakassi Boys

Abstract:
The other day I saw on television the news of an armed robber apprehended by the police a few hours after the crime was committed. He was charged, sent to jail, and the police closed the case.

It got me thinking about my home country Nigeria, and how a wave of crime was stemmed in some cities a few years back by a group who took the law into their hands....

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Confused Student

posted 9/05/08 @ 8:51 AM CST

I'm confused; do you want a band of people to start killing common criminals by cutting of their limbs of burning them alive? Doing this is different than lethal injection, because we only kill people who have murdered others--not that i'm saying even that is right. I'm just confused on what the point of this column is. Is it an opinon that the bakassi boys could take care of crime in the US by using their inhuman ways of treating criminals? Or are you just educating us about crime in Nigeria...if this is the case, it shouldn't be in the forum section.
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