Case of assassinated judge close to turning cold

Alfred Kola

Noon of September 9, 2011. Televisions throughout the country aired shocking images of people pulling a shattered body out of a burning car. A judge was assassinated in an explosion in the center of the city, a mafia-style murder that served as a warning for the others. The horrific images that galvanized the citizens of the coastal city and the entire country spurred a wave of verbal reaction on the part of government’s top officials. They strongly condemned the act as a strike to the judicial system and state itself and promised that the perpetrators would be brought to justice sooner than ever. In the heat of the moment ministers and police chiefs said that they will have the perpetrators in custody within three days.
But nobody really believed these promises and pledges. People knew better; they knew that behind this assassination were people with power who control the structures of government. Because of that, like other previous political assassinations it would remain unresolved.
Two weeks later police and investigators have no suspect yet. The case of the young judge is doomed to turn cold like others before. Meanwhile the criminal hand prepares for the next strike undisturbed by the law enforcement agencies.