Remember the story I posted here in December about the Korean senior executive who went nuts and ordered a plane to turn around because a flight attendant served her macadamia nuts in a bag rather than in a dish? Well, it turns out her grovelling apologies were not enough to keep her out of jail.
Cho Hyun-ah, the Korean Air heiress has been sentenced to a year imprisonment for violating aviation laws. Prior to her sentencing, she had apologized publicly, resigned from all her posts and got a verbal lashing from her father, but alas she still has to go to jail for breaking the law. Pride did come before a fall, a fall from grace to grass because the Koreans are big on upholding family reputations.
It makes me ponder on the extent to which we have lost our judicial sense of reasoning in Nigeria when compared with the Koreans. Here in Nigeria, you can get away with murder if you have the right connections and wealth and I do not mean this statement figuratively. There are so many ills being covered up to save face and reputations such that would appall even the devil himself. I really hope the day would come when we will properly jail looters, murderers and corrupt rich/influential people rather than let them getaway with their bogus "do you know who I am" claims!!
The sad part is that there would always be the ignorantly myopic Nigerians who would think and insist that the sentencing of Cho Hyun-ah is a bit too much for her small crime especially seeing as she has since apologized.
Sigh. RME. *walks away slowly*
Sigh. RME. *walks away slowly*
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