The Congo execution of 172 young men that recently took place has made people ask themselves a lot of questions, without answers.
The number is huge, and the agony that the execution has left in the hearts of people, and especially in the hearts of their family, is astonishing.
The contrary is as well true. In deed, many people argue that they are good with the boys being executed in the manner they were executed in public. The torment that is said to has been inflicted by the slain hoodlums amongst different families is pulpable.
Why was the execution so “necessary”? A lot of people who are aware of the atrocities that were meted among victims (and their families) did deserve the punishment that was meted on them, a comeuppance that the entire world should clap for.
Other people had also argued that the government decided to go hard on them, which should never have been the case. That too, was dismissed by those who claim to know what the hell victims of the dreaded gang went through.
Although the law has its ways of handling such characters, the truth is that if the government had gone the legal way in dealing with them, then everyone would have considered it a cuddle with kids’ gloves, going by the crimes they are accused of doing.
In the end, there is justice, or legal way, that relatives of the executed squad would have wished for the lads, but justice that the slain victims and children still looks superior to anything the former wanted for the deceased.
