Nigeria, April 7 -- Emotions were astir, and rightly so, from a broad spectrum of Nigerians following the lynching of 16 youths in Uromi, Edo State, penultimate week. It was a most barbaric and horrific act, which once more demonstrated how cheap life has become in the country.

The victims, travelling from Port Harcourt in Rivers State to Kano State, in a Dangote Cement truck, for the last Sallah festival, met their untimely deaths in the hands of a vigilante group, which suspected them of being part of a band of kidnappers terrorising the areas, due to the 16 dane guns found inside the truck. They had claimed to be hunters and pleaded with the assailants to spare their lives.

But their pleas were not heeded. Instead, they were beaten t...