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jungle justice en · NOUN
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(Nigeria, uncountable) Extrajudicial punishment, including lynching.
If I didnʼt run […] maybe they will make me suffer this jungle justice thing, burn me with fire because they think I am a thief.
2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 148:2025, 1 September, Chris Ewokor, Mob burns Nigerian woman to death for alleged blasphemy (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y21zxyd6mo
Police condemned the killing of the woman - identified in local media as a food vendor named Amaye - as "jungle justice", saying that an investigation was under way to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators.