BY GBENGA OLARINOYE
OSOGBO— Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, yesterday linked the increasing violence in parts of the country to “fall out of social injustice.”

The Governor spoke at the swearing in of Mrs. Kudirat Morayo Akano as a judge of the High Court.
In his speech titled:  “Where would we have been without justice”, the Governor said frustrations caused by lack of justice and economic inequality were responsible for such crimes as bomb explosions, mindless killings and others.

He said, ‘’ When there is disharmony between social justice and universal laws, chaos and disorder ensue. ‘To bring it home, we are witnessing instability and insurrection in parts of the country in the bomb blasts and targeted killings, especially of law enforcement agents.

These are terrorist acts condemnable in all ramifications. The appropriate authorities have responded with a resolve to crush the monster and even their sponsors in order to restore peace to the affected communities”.

The environment of extreme poverty, ignorance and diseases where might is right; where the gap between the haves and the have-nots is increasing at a geometric proportion; where law serves the interest of the few and where the most people are hopeless, can only but encourage such sundry acts of terrorism capable of regressing man into the Hobbesian state of nature where there is war of all against all and the life of man is solitary, nasty, brutish and short.”

“The government must as a long term solution address social inequality, the obscene consumption pattern of the elite that infuriates the poor, the weak and the powerless and lift the masses from the morass of poverty, ignorance and diseases. What we expect therefore from the judiciary is justice. I am particularly interested in substantive justice that is in harmony with natural justice.

All over the world, jurists are increasingly embracing substantive justice and discarding the intellectual gymnastic of technicalities and formalism that is capable of defeating the ends of justice”