Your life or your money?

This has been one of the popular phrase we grew up to know in movies. The question "your life or your money" is mainly used in an armed robbery operation, it is usually to scare people so they could drop their money easily without any stress unless they prefer to drop their life instead which instigate that they would be killed if they don't drop their money so the choice is theirs to pick one of the two.

While watching an old time movie yesterday, the phrase"your life or your money" was repeatedly mentioned so it drew my attention to writing about it. While it already looking normal, should a person's life be a replacement for money? Should killings continue all in the name of money? Even the bible already said it that he who does not work must not eat so why then do people want to eat from where they do not work?

Let's talk about the armed robbers themselves

Armed robbers didn't just start robbing in a day, majority of them has started since they were kids, they majorly started with petty stealings at their various homes into stealing in open spaces like schools, churches, market place till they become a big time armed robber. While some of these petty thieves were caught beforehand, some made it into a very big terrorism group.

Is Jungle Justice for thieves appropriate?

In my country, any thief that was caught stealing in an open space especially in the market (even if it's a cube of seasoning), such person will be either beaten terribly almost to death or burnt to ashes. we call that type of punishment "JUNGLE JUSTICE". It's a situation whereby the law wasn't allowed to take it full course, the people already taken Justice into their hands. So should we now it's better that way? Should jungle justice be encouraged? Definitely NOT! It might look as though the law is fucked up because the country now seem lawless, even our so called leaders are corruption minded but I still feel jungle justice is not the solution. I've literally heard of a case of someone who was mistaken for a criminal because of the type and colour of dress he was putting on (I guess it matched with what the real criminal was putting on) after he was already burnt to death, the real criminal was found. It was so disheartening when I heard the story, what a pity! Now tell me, if it were to be that he was only arrested by the police, wouldn't he have been released after discovering the real criminal?

What should be done in order to curb armed robbery?

For me parent have a very significant role to play in the curbing of armed robbery, infact I think poor family background is the major root cause of armed robbery. Some kids steal petty things in their homes but their parent would turn a blind eye to it thinking that they are still little children. It hails from taking little things such as meat from the stew pot, money from the drawer, even other siblings leftover meals. Even when some of these children grow up into teenage years, they go as far as bringing home what is not theirs from school like multiple stationeries, notebooks and textbooks that is not theirs and the likes but their parent will show little or no concern to it. When they eventually turn into real thieves and they start bringing plenty of cash home, while some of the parents will want to find out where the money is coming from, some other parents won't even bother, as long as the child is bringing money home, everything is ok.

I've heard of the story of a guy who started stealing too at a very young age and instead of the mother to find solution to her son's problem, she decided to take him to an herbalist for spiritual fortification so that he would be going on big time armed robbery operations and he would also be going and coming back successfully without being caught. The guy later became a very big terrorist in the society that didn't fear anyone and was always killing people on his operations even after collecting money.

So the parents have a very big role to play in the curbing of armed robbery, we should always be conscious of whatever our children are bringing home and also be correcting them anytime they are picking something that is not theirs. I also believe so much in prayers, if the child seem unrepentant even after all our efforts to make them change, let's always put them in our prayers and trust me, you would be amazed with what God is set to do in their lives.

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