I Have Compiled 32 Court Orders Being Disobeyed By Nigerian Govt – Falana

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, says he has compiled a list containing 32 court orders which were disobeyed by the Nigerian government.

The Human rights advocate said this in an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily. He also tasked members of Nigerian Bar Association of Nigeria (NBA) to rise up to their duties.

He added it is not the responsibility of a president or even an attorney general to handpick which court order to obey.

“In my latest compilation, I’ve compiled about 32 court orders being disobeyed flagrantly by the government of Nigeria which is not in line with the rule of law.

“It doesn’t lie in the mouth of an attorney general or the president of a country to choose and pick which orders of court to obey.

“When you do that, you are reducing the status of the country to a banana republic. And that is why the bar has to rise up now and take its rightful place,” he said.

Falana warned that unless proactive steps are taken, nobody will respect the rights of Nigerians because “there is no penalty for impunity in our country.”

During the interview, he added that Human Rights, the Democracy and Rule Of Law are not all taken seriously in Nigeria.

He blamed this on the NBA noting that it is stated clearly in the constitution of the NBA that human rights and the rule of law be defended.

“The official bar and the private bar have not taken the issue of human rights and democracy or even the rule of law seriously.

“We have a new human rights regime in our country on paper that can be compared with that of any civilised or advanced bourgeoise democracy

“For instance, under the current political dispensation, no Nigerian shall be detained in any detention center in Nigeria without an inspection, monthly inspection of the facility by a chief magistrate or a judge of the federal high court. In other words, you can no longer have indiscriminate arrest and detention,” he said.

The constitution provides that anybody who is arrested by the police shall be taken to court within 24 or 48 hours.

Falana said Nigerian lawyers should be burdened that illegal arrests occur on a daily basis in Nigeria.

The law, he said, provides that before you search or arrest a Nigerian, you must obtain a court order from a Federal High court.

“If you want to search his house, you obtain an order like a search warrant. If you want to seize his phone, you get an order, because your right to liberty, your right to the privacy of your home and correspondent are constitutionally entrenched.

“So, if you are going to violate any of those rights, you must obtain a court order. But what happens in Nigeria? You go and invade somebody’s house in the dead of the night, when you have kept him for few days, you suddenly realize ‘oh I need a court order’ then you rush to court. No, that’s not our law.”

Falana decried the situation when security officers raid communities and arrest people on the road for wandering, adding that the law on wandering has been “abolished as far back as 1989.”

He lamented that the poor and indigent people in Nigeria are on the receiving end and the only way Nigerian lawyers can stem this tide is to be armed with the law.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVOp4V2gIBc

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.channelstv.com/2019/08/27/i-have-compiled-32-court-orders-being-disobeyed-by-nigerian-govt-falana/amp/

that same thing that made you to wait, after disobedience to court Order one,two,three n so on,knowing the devastating effect on a health of the society should escort you alone .
Eye service men,where there is no elder in a village,children will commit sacrilegious abomination, there is no Elder in the country cos they are benefitting fat from this evil govt.
Here, we are expected to fight n defend ourselves, Gani Fawehinmi is no more,Abacha is chewing flesh of any opposition at site,join him n be spared,critisize him n be swallowed

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Do not vote for ful... You people blocked your ear. Now your are complaining. What we are seeing now is the next level they told us. All of us are in for it! 4yrs minus few month to go.

I thought you had been supporting him

okosodo:
I thought you had been supporting him

U dey mind am?

TV lawyer ... his rants starts and ends on CHANNELS TV.
I never see this kind weak lawyer before. This man has potentials to be as great as Gani ... but the love of Camera destroyed him.
*Spits*

JudgeOGBUNABALI:
TV lawyer ... his rants starts and ends on CHANNELS TV.
I never see this kind weak lawyer before. This man has potentials to be as great as Gani ... but the love of Camera destroyed him.
*Spits*

What can he do alone? A tree cannot make a forest...he needs support and that's why he's calling on the NBA. Let us learn to appreciate those who speak out, even if they supported the government at a time, there is no harm in withdrawing the support once they realised their error!

as if his the one to judge

Compiler General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria..

Typical afonja...speaking from both sides of their mouth.

Fela Kuti warned Nigerians about Buhari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafjSUv6s7E

JudgeOGBUNABALI:
TV lawyer ... his rants starts and ends on CHANNELS TV.
I never see this kind weak lawyer before. This man has potentials to be as great as Gani ... but the love of Camera destroyed him.
*Spits*

Reasonable people offer and withdraw support based on a person's change in behavior.
The only people who are eternally opposed to another are terrorists, fanatics and brainwashed souls.

Did you expect him to join the Ipob fanatics protests?
What a clown.

September 13 is the day

Tell the pept to stand up for justice and get rid of the tyrant no matter the intimidation

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Hehehe..........trying to fight the monster they all conspired in creating.
I hope the monster consume em all.

rikithor:
that same thing that made you to wait, after disobedience to court Order one,two,three n so on,knowing the devastating effect on a health of the society should escort you alone .
Eye service men,where there is no elder in a village,children will commit sacrilegious abomination, there is no Elder in the country cos they are benefitting fat from this evil govt.
Here, we are expected to fight n defend ourselves, Gani Fawehinmi is no more,Abacha is chewing flesh of any opposition at site,join him n be spared,critisize him n be swallowed

learn how to drive better than you have known.
call or whatsapp

Bross u get sense at all. Femi falana is saying the truth, must you support the stupid buhari because of your tribalist and low mind head. Abeg get sense. na because of people like una this country still de spoil uptil now. Na your type government de pay money to come help them organize retaliating protest against the good protest of well meaning Nigerians

Thank God Abacha is dead today! Those who understood the tyranny of the man ABACHA could see the traces of such dictatorial symptoms in Buhari.
It is a shame that someone like Osinbajo a professor of constitutional law is watching the flagrant disregard for the rule of law. No thanks to the judiciary who are now doing the hatchet job for the presidency.

Shame on all the youths of this generation who are diehard supporters of the corrupt government..

If Abacha were to be our president today, I can imagine the huge followership he would have...

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Shut up old fool , you were part of those that ensured this man gets a second term by hook or by crook yet now you want to complain after getting a house in maitama from EFCC for pittance

JudgeOGBUNABALI:
TV lawyer ... his rants starts and ends on CHANNELS TV.
I never see this kind weak lawyer before. This man has potentials to be as great as Gani ... but the love of Camera destroyed him.
*Spits*

He is a conman , they will soon call him to Abuja and give him another house in maitama and he will shut up

Xisnin:

You expected him to join Ipob protests?
What a clown.

Not at all. In the past, he would have long taken to the streets. But let him dare it now and he will understand the difference between egbe and egbe!

Ewon ni won ma gbagbe e si!!

Even though I am a big critic of Buhari, I tend to agree with him on a number of things.

If I were Nigeria's president, I would likely do the same thing with respect to the judiciary. Nigeria's judiciary is corrupt.

I cannot accept the verdict of fantastically corrupt man.

Things will get a lot worse in Nigeria if the judiciary is not cleaned up because it's the last hope of a commoner.

Buhari does not listen to anybody

Falana warned that unless proactive steps are taken, nobody will respect the rights of Nigerians because “there is no penalty for impunity in our country.”

During the interview, he added that Human Rights, the Democracy and Rule Of Law are not all taken seriously in Nigeria.

Some people dont know the domino effect of these acts...

What is the point of becoming a lawyer, if court cases and the constitution which is the basis of creating a career in law is thrown to the dustbin.. so applies to other professions we keep destroying everyday..

We are destroying the structure and system, in Nigeria today 90% believe money can buy anything and power can turn any verdict, thanks to our kow-toe judiciary.

Very soon the people who dont have this money and power would resist inequality and injustice because the system which is supposed to make sure hardwork and discipline should elevate you has been destroyed and secluded to a certain few, so therefore leaving them between the devil and the deep blue sea and gives reason for desperate measures.

Falana maybe right, we are gradually tilting to a banana republic.

No need ranting. Lets just wait till 2023 abeg

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