Legal Dilemmas

By Nwokocha Chidinma Grace It was a cool Saturday evening. The sun had just began to set. The Onitsha cloth market was filled to the brim with traders and customers alike, yet the place was as quiet as a graveyard. One could hear a pin drop in the market. The reason for this untold quietness was not far-fetched. For the past one month, traders had been continually harassed by petty thieves, armed robbers and burglars who had dispossessed them of goods and money worth millions of naira. The traders had become tired of the constant harassment and become wary of anybody going in and out of the market. They quietly laid ambush for the perpetrator(s) of the heinous crimes.  At the far end of the market, little Nina sat quietly in her mother’s dilapidated counter that once served as her cloth store. She sat there brooding and meditating over her life in a few years. Hers was a tale of woes. She had lost her mother when she was very young and her father had immediately marrie