₦airaland Forum

psucc:
Why not first discuss how Tinubu can solve the problem as a sitting President? Why is Obi the main character in every national discuss of late. Any President that knows his onions can drastically reduced corruption at the State levels but he that goes to equity MUST do so with clean hands.

advanceDNA:
Werey....

No be governors dey fund monarchs...abi na market seller contribution Dem go use buy bullet proof motor

Ofunaofu:
But Tinubu and his gang stood against Goodluck Jonathan decision to remove subsidy as far back as 2012 to the extent of organizing and sponsoring protests against the decision

rayvelez:
Nonsense suit lol no be dis werey fought obj for creating more illegal local government.

yarimo:
Nigerians are just happy to have TINUBU as president

OKKO:
Great,

Local government autonomy is very important. It is not only FG, Governors, Senate, and Reps that knows how to squander money. The Chairmen too should be allowed to chill with the corruption gang. When we wake up in 50 years time, we will know whether we can take governance and development seriously.

magoo10:
Are Bdcs really the reason for the unfortunate economic downturn or the cbn are just chasing shadows
Electing bad leaders with no vision for a productive economy will always slow the progress of any nation.

Treasure17:
Majority are eye service.

jmoore:
As if drug trafficking is not happening in Nigeria. Returning home automatically stops them from selling drugs?

lordm:
That doesn't stop him from being a tyrant and coup plotter

Armaggedon:
They take life easy by using their people's body parts for ritual but when an Igbo man prospers more than them they begin to envy him.

mightyhazel:
If you have ever moulded a block in your life you won't type this trash

themomentng:
Hello my dear members of the All Progressives Congress.

Since the last adjournment of the case between the EFCC and our dear brother and fellow party member, former Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, a lot of things have been said about the pronouncement of the court, goings-on and the people that have been haunting our dear brother have been going about saying all kinds of things.

You see, the funny things about this life is that what is is, what is not, is not.

The law is what it is, and according to the law, where there is a case, any case between any parties, those two parties are equal.

Now, where there is a criminal matter under the law, it is all of us as a society, as a state, versus the accused person.

Yet, all of us as a society, as a state, as a country, in that court of law, we are equal to that person, we are not more than that person and that person is not more than us.

That is how a forum, a court is fair.

Now, where a person has been charged to court, and the prosecutor, the prosecuting authority is so incompetent, so ridiculously incompetent, that the prosecuting authority says it is a personal matter, the head of the prosecuting authority says he will resign if he cannot jail the person, where a case is already in court and the prosecutor is so incompetent that while a matter is pending in court, he calls a press conference and starts litigating the case already before the court, in the court of public opinion, that authority has lost its right to prosecute such person.

Let me explain it to you.

You have to be fair in a forum.

By forum, you know it's Latin, that is the court.

Everybody is equal there.

And you have charged someone to court.

You will respect the court; you don't have a choice.

Who are you?

You will respect the court because it is the court that guarantees our civilization.

That is why we are not barbarians.

Because, tomorrow you can say Barrister Onokpasa chased my wife, go and cut his throat; no!

That is why we have courts.

You will take me to court.

It is like the nonsense they were saying about our President that he did this, he did that.

We defeated all of them in court.

Bola Tinubu defeated all of them in court.

In fact, our President disgraced all of them in court and I am proud to have been one of his lawyers.

So, we go to court because the court is the arbiter.

We do not subscribe to jungle justice and a prosecuting authority, a prosecutor, cannot undermine the authority of the court by unilaterally, while a matter is pending before a court of competent jurisdiction, and then he calls a press conference and people are hailing him and laughing ... I mean, what a shame!

The evidence he ought to present in court, he starts presenting it before whoever he called for his so called press conference.

Well, according to the law, you now lose your authority to prosecute the person.

At this moment, according to law, the EFCC no longer has any right to prosecute Yahaya Bello.

That is the law.

We cannot have a government agency tarnishing the reputation of citizens.

We are citizens, we have rights for God's sake.

We are not in a dictatorship.

In any civilized society, the court is paramount, otherwise, the society breaks down.

It breaks down, it collapses.

In constitutional law, we say Legislature, first arm of government; Executive, second arm of government; Judiciary, third arm of government.

That is not how they originated.

In fact, governance first crystalized at the level of the exercise of judicial functions.

It is there in the Holy Bible.

There were judges before there were kings.

Go and read your Bible.

There is a reason why we have courts.

Otherwise, somebody will just shout "thief", "thief" and people will start to lynch him.

What nonsense!

Then, a government agency starts behaving like a mob.

What a shame!

You have charged a person to court, you will wait for the judicial process to take its course.

What we try to prevent in law is self-help.

In fact, the entire idea of the rule of law is to prevent self-help.

So, you and I are quarrelling, instead of me to carry machete or AK47 or rocket launcher to come after you, I will go to the Police first, that is why we have Police; I will sue you to court.

We do not undermine the court; that is what we call sub judice.

In fact, we should probe this EFCC.

They are so carried away.

They just feel they can intimidate anybody, as if everybody in the country is a crook.

We work hard in this country, we are not all thieves.

Unfortunately for the EFCC, they have so mismanaged this matter of Yahaya Bello.

It is not even a question of convicting him, they can't prosecute him anymore.

On what basis?

Imagine if this is a jurisdiction where we have a jury trial, then, you have already castigated the man in public called him a thief, called him this and that.

The people that should be summoned for the jury, did they not hear it?

Have you not already poisoned their minds against the accused? You have!

How can you then prosecute me?

A citizen is the most powerful in a state.

That is the highest office in any country - the office of the citizen.

In fact, when Yahaya Bello was a governor, he was even a junior citizen because he was a servant.

Now that he is no longer a governor, he now occupies the office of a citizen and the government cannot tarnish his reputation.

You can't be prosecuting him in court and then tarnishing his reputation in press conferences and engineering people to be making these ridiculous and stupid videos undermining the court, the Judiciary.

This is what we complained about and to imagine the EFCC doing this.

Sorry, you can no longer prosecute former governor Yahaya Bello.

Thank you.

My name is Barrister Jesutega Onokpasa.

40Bullets:
Is Tinubu President?

eweqwatr:
These ones are destroying Nigeria judiciary in the name of helping their family members.

Nonybb:
There are things that confused me about this country and I don't know why it keep repeating itself in every road contracts I have seen in Nigeria. Why is it that this country would construct a road with zero landscaping. The sand would just be there very glare and in contact with the coal tar. What happened to grassing or interlocking stones to cover the sands? I DON'T UNDERSTAND! The annoying part is that they would brandish it as a proudly completed project. Why is it that an Engineer in Egypt would construct a road and complied in that regard with every single road in Cairo whereas in Nigeria, the same Egyptian would not lay emphasis on the government about the same procedure as an engineer in Nigeria. I repeat this same catch phrase again... "who bewitched this country"?

DaddyRochie1642:
Oga to slap you dey hungry me

oskaroni:
Na so so talk. Make dem deploy am first make we see

Wainey:
He was a tyrant, many people are afraid of him.

Wike is a dangerous man and he wants people he can control, he never expected SIM to be this bold, the rest are just his puppets

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
They should invite EFCC to probe the last administration