The popular maxim “the mill of justice grinds slowly” seems to be made for Nigeria as the rate at which the rights of the citizenry are disregarded in the country is not in the interest of the downtrodden or those experiencing injustice in the society.

The rate at which it takes to dispense justice in Nigeria has made it difficult for individuals to trust the justice system as a result, many individuals who have been cheated in the past choose to keep quiet and “leave it for God”.

Rape victims, robbery victims, abused individuals among others in need of Justice refuse to approach the court all for the known long process.

Sometimes, cases take as much as 25 years to resolve here in Nigeria, while in other nations, judgment in such cases will are usually dispensed in less than 10 months.

Twelve years after the #Apo6 killings in Abuja, the victims are yet to get justice as an FCT High Court granted the first judgment in the case instituted against the suspects. Now they need to cross the hurdles of the judgment being appealed at the Appeal and Supreme Courts which may not be resolved in the next 20 years.

This same scenario is playing out in the ALUU4 killings, as the families of the four University of Port Harcourt graduates killed by a mob await. It’s no different in Osun as the winner of the 2007 governorship election, Rauf Aregbesola could not get justice until few months to the end of the tenure of the former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola.

These are few examples of cases that have been delayed at Nigerian courts before eventual conclusions by the court, often the resolutions come when they are of no real use to the people in question.

It’s high time Nigeria’s mill of Justice stops grinding slowly but faster to fulfil its mandate of being the last hope of the common man.