Former presidential aide Reno Omokri has given reasons why Southerners shouldn't say that Northerners do not give justice.

The sentiment has been high since Northerners have been demanding justice after an Uromi mob in Edo State killed the 16 Northerners whom they suspected were kidnappers

However, many Southerners on social media have been reminding the north of how no justice was served when a Christian girl, Deborah Samuel, was burnt to death over alleged blasphemy of Islam, an act they defended.

Rea tin, Omokri wrote on Facebook, "I will urge you to cast your mind back to 2015 when Yunusa Dahiru (alias Yellow) fell in love with an underaged Ese Oruru, who was living in Bayelsa.

"They eloped to Kano, where Yunusa married Ese, who was thirteen years old then, at the palace of the then Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.

"Because of her age, the marriage was treated as statutory rape, although Ese said she willingly followed Yunusa to Kano out of love or maybe lust.

"Senator Ben Murray-Bruce and I made a lot of trouble and noise, and Punch Newspapers carried the story. When the attention of the Kano State Government was drawn to the issue, Yunusa was arrested and extradited from Kano to Bayelsa, even when the Emir of Kano appealed on his behalf. In Bayelsa, Yunusa was prosecuted and sentenced to twenty-six years imprisonment. He is still in prison there.

"A Northerner (General Buhari) was President when this happened, but he did not use federal might to save Yunusa. A Northerner was the then Inspector General of Police. Yet, the police did not stop the prosecution of Yunusa. No Northerners protested, rioted, or started hashtags because of Yunusa, who was himself a young man barely out of his teens.

"This is a Northern State, Kano, arresting a Northerner from Kano and willingly handing him over to a Southern State, Bayelsa, to face justice.

"My dear brothers and sisters from Southern Nigeria, let us learn from that act of the Kano State Government and its people and control our mouths and stop making a bad situation even worse by talking as if Nigeria began today.

"One good turn deserves another. Please Google the Yunusa incident. I was at the forefront of the struggle to get justice for Ese Oruru's mother. And now I am telling you, as a Bendelite (Edo people know what I mean), that the only way justice can be served is if those behind the Uromi mob killings of the sixteen Northerners are brought to book and made to pay for their crime just as Yunusa Dahiru paid for his."

ASA