By David Maillu
Published September 24, 2023

Writer David Maillu argues that the Western social order encourages people to commit crimes because they can get away easily with murders. It is a system that supports the expansion of crimes and prisons. It supports the creation of professional criminals. There are people who become billionaires out of corruption and stealing.If a man steals a cow and is caught in Maasai community, he is punished by being made to pay seven cows besides the one he has stolen. Obviously, it is impossible for him as an individual to afford the payment without any help. Where does he go? He returns to his family and pleads guilty then begs them to help him pay the demand.

The family helps the thief to pay the fine under very serious conditions that if he ever steals again, they will either disown him or kill him. Consequently, he gives up stealing and lives up to his promise for his own security. Other crimes are dealt with in the same way in the traditional social order, which discourages any form of criminal attempt. That social order is craftily designed to practically kill immorality in society. That is why prisons are unknown in traditional Africa.

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Compare that to the social order we have imported from Europe where, if a person steals a cow and gets arrested, he is charged in a court of law and sentenced to a jail term of, perhaps, two years. Eventually, he comes out of jail cleverer than he was, with better ideas of stealing and escaping from being caught. His stealing ambition was barely suspended by the prison. Nothing happened to him psychologically to change his thinking.

This time round, if he has to steal he plans his movement very well. In fact, he can continue stealing and getting away with the crime and become wealthy.
As many people are doing in broad light today, he can buy justice and continue his business to a great height of wealth.

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There are recorded cases of rapists serving long jail terms where they eat and their health is taken care of; but upon completion of the jail term for him to go to begin a difficult new life, they opt for doing other more serious rapes to earn better life in jail.

The Whiteman’s social order encourages people to commit crimes because they can get away easily with murders. It is a system that supports the expansion of crimes and prisons. It supports the creation of professional criminals. There are people who become billionaires out of corruption and stealing. Criminology is an industry in the Whiteman’s world. The criminal industry gives jobs to legal institutions, psychiatric institutions, and church institutions in preaching following law and order, employment in prisons, and so on. To destroy criminology is to destroy those institutions. Why have Africans adopted such a primitive social order? The fall from grace to grass….!