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Seems to me as Ghanaians we have a very shallow understanding of the law- if we didn’t we wouldn’t have this disturbing proclivity towards mob justice that undermines all our protestations of religious morality.

Surely these townspeople do not understand what constitutes and does not constitute a crime. Like my perverted friend DB often says, sleeping with another man’s wife is not a crime. And even if it were, it’s not the responsibility of citizens to mete out justice. You cannot lynch armed robbers, rapists, or murderers; much less an adulterer.

Adomonline reports a 32 year old carpenter known as Paa Willie has been lynched for sleeping with another man’s wife at Adansi Anhwiaso in the Ashanti Region.

The incident occurred on Sunday night, when the man went to watch the big game- El Classico. The adulterous couple took advantage to have a quickie, but it all went wrong when townspeople alerted the woman’s husband.

He returned and caught the duo in the act, getting violent and inflicting machete wounds on the victim.

Shockingly, the townspeople weren’t satisfied with all this violence; and they came to tack on their own brand of justice which led to the death of Paa Willie.

The world is moving on and we really should move along with it. Mob justice issues are becoming too much, and it does not speak well of our intelligence as a people.