Re: Has self defense become a crime?

Quote from: entertheabyss on July 17, 2025, 06:54:28 AM

When I saw clips of the massive killings in Benue State by the Fulani herdsmen, I quickly had a flashback on a case involving a farmer called Jackson Sunday and a herdsman in Anambra State in 2015. Jackson Sunday in a bid to defend himself against a herdsman killed the herdsman in order to escape from the herdsman attack but recently on March 7th, 2025 he was sentence to death by hanging on the ground that he would have fled instead of trying to defend himself. This is a wrong judgement and a redicule to our judicial system. This judgement have raised contention in the legal and none legal environment.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/2025/06/03/justice-denied-supreme-courts-judgement-in-sunday-jacksons-self-defence-case-part-3/

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/784603-sunday-jackson-a-victim-of-a-miscarriage-of-justice-by-chidi-anselm-odinkalu.html

Now, I begin to question our laws and ask certain questions:

- Should we continue to run when our lives are threatened and properties been vandalized?

- Is self-defense now a crime in Nigeria?

- Is a victim now an offender?

- Does herdsmen have the right to kill?

- What would have been the fate of Benue State if the reverse was the case?

I need opinions on the questions raised.

OP this is a contemporary question and i think we should all add a voice to it, Thanks for bring this up, many people never read about it until today. I followed up this news and also made my contribution on various media. This reduced Nigerian judiciary system to zero. Its an eye opener that there is no justice in the Nigerian legal system. The international community condemned the judgment, but since it was Supreme court judgment its very hard to reverse.

It shall not be well with the judge that gave that judgement, it further show that in this country cow and herdsmen are serious citizens and that is why the government are playing politics with herdsmen attack on farmer's crops and killing the farmers, at the end no single herdsmen has be arrested. Government has hands in it, and they are being sponsored by politicians to achieve their political interest. The case of Jackson Sunday was the worst and obvious evidence that the Nigerian government does not care about our life and properties. Wherever you are avoid trouble and if you perceive one run far.