With instant killer mobs on the loose, not even the ‘govt’ is safe
Expressly executing suspected offenders instead of subjecting them to due process is often blamed on police’s tendency to release suspects after allegedly ‘shaking hands’ instead of taking them to court.
Police officers and responsible citizens in different parts of East Africa are getting increasingly concerned about rising cases of mob murders.
In Uganda mob killings over (sometimes framed) theft suspects this month numbed many when they claimed a young, well-to-do rugby player in Kampala, and a property agent who was snatched from a bank when a manager accused him of having committed fraud a couple of weeks earlier.
