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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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From: S. maltophilia1/12/2025 8:10:47 PM
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Making fertile ground of Boko Haram, Wagner or some other disruption:

..... The judge overseeing the Kono High Court, Augustine Kailey Musa, told me it was in a defendant’s interest to plead guilty and “not waste the time of the court,” regardless of what had actually transpired. “If you want me to consider poverty and you plead guilty [first], then I would definitely temper justice with mercy. But if you plead ‘not guilty’ and then [later] give the issue of poverty, I won’t take lightly to it. I don’t really like people who waste the court’s time.”

Judge Musa had complete discretion over the sentencing, and his decisions had no apparent rationale. One young man was given a one-year prison sentence for a $60 debt. Another young man, who owed $700, was released and gently told to “slowly pay it off.”

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