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Theflint1:
Not sure to what extent lawyers would blow a case to that a clear act of self-defense skips manslaughter, or even the average sentence for murder (25 years) and climbs all the way to a death by hanging that's the maximum allowable sentence for that sort of situation.

I think they relied too much on the self defence angle.

I believe there are other loopholes they could have tried to exploit.

BlueRayDick:
While you are right that self defense is not absolute , I believe the farmer has shown enough evidence that the attacker was out to kill him and left him (the farmer ) no choice but to kill him ( the herdsman ) .

I have read through the facts of the case from the moment it was in the lower court and all evidence shows that the farmer has suffered a great miscarriage of justice by our legal system . Everything about this sentence shows what is wrong with our judicial system .

To start with , the herdsman trespassed on the farmer’s property and has no legal justification to be on the farm at that time . He further proceeded to attack the farmer with a weapon that was capable of inflicting fatal injury on the farmer . It was reported that the farmer was stabbed severally before he overpowered the herdsman and inflicted a fatal blow on him.

Normally the case should not have even gone on trial but because it happened under Buhari’s government when Fulani herdsmen were treated as the most important set of people than any other person in this country , they took it to trial and charged the victim with murder . This in itself is another grave injustice; the farmer should’ve been charged for manslaughter if he must be charged but they deliberately charged him for murder .

You suggested the farmer’s defense team may have bungled the case but that is actually not the case . The defense team right from the lower court consistently pointed it out that the trial judge’s reasoning has been illogical from the start and inconsistent with the universal interpretation of self-defense . It is illogical for the trial judge to expect a farmer who has been stabbed by his assailant to just walk away after he was able to overpower his assailant . What if he wanted to walk away and the attacker picked up any object like stone , a log of wood , etc to end him from behind ?

I think there should be a serious uproar about this case and hopefully the case can be reviewed . If not , this case will leave a very bad precedent and will embolden more criminals to get justice against their victims

According to our criminal code, for self defence to fly, these three ingredients must be satisfied


1. That the victim was attacking or about to attack the defendant in a manner that grievous hurt and or death was possible, and he had to defend himself

2. That the self-defence was instantaneous and
contemporaneous with threatened attack

3. That the mode of defence was not greater or
disproportionate with the threatened attack


While this case clearly satisfies the first two, the judges were not convinced it satisfies the third.

If a man stabs you on the leg, you find a way to overpower him, collect the knife and stab him in the the neck with intent to kill, I don't think your defence can be said to be in proportion with the attack.

CrystalTiger:
Supreme Court actually sentenced a farmer to death for defending himself against Fulani herdsmen..

This country called Nigeria, smh

The prosecutors argued that, having overpowered the man and collected his knife, he should have walked away from the scene.

Self defence is not absolute. You have to show that the attacker left you with absolutely no choice but to kill him.

I have reasons to believe his lawyers blew up the case.

Amigoss:
.....

If one of the 44 tickets had won,he got dey shout boom everywhere

You get. We for no rest on twitter and here.

BlueRayDick:
This is the part of gambling they will not show u.

Alaye said Atalanta has killed more youth than COVID-19 😂😂😂

This one don re-write the book of Lamentations successfully.

I was going to bring this here 😂

Our favourite x.com punter posted 44 games yesterday alone and lost all.

That is why you've not been seeing updates here.

BlueRayDick:
I subscribe the compact bouquet every month o. That’s the cheapest way of watching EPL weekly for me

You can consider streaming with apps.

Ihebu4chelsea:
Lol, people are still making use of DStv despite the hike in subscription.

I believe most of their revenue will come from corporate organizations like offices or business centres like bars.

BlueRayDick:
So na every quarter DSTV wan Dey increase price now ?

I don't know anyone who still uses DSTV and they are still increasing prices when they should be reducing it. The audacity.

Hmmm

alezzy13:
Funny enough they still maintained the rates, despite drop in inflation and complains that it's hurting businesses

This was expected. They've increased rates at every MPC since Cardoso took over.

Going from increasing rates to maintaining it is the right thing to do

We can expect cuts going forward.

DigitalMallam:
Based on the current inflation figure.
Inflation has dropped to 24.48 from 34.80 due to rebasing of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) - as released by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Expect sub 19% for 1yr TB.

Well said. In addition, exchange rate is now under the firm control of CBN. Only way Tbill rates go up is if the exchange rate goes haywire again.

Odunharry:
Tomorrow is the Treasury bills primary market auction.

Expecting rates to tank.

semid4lyfe:
So why was that dude obtaining 17 and 30 minutes runtime respectively on 1 litre fuel in the two brand new "I Pass My Neighbour" Generators?

Was the test staged and the result predetermined?

He didn't use the entire fuel. Just a portion of it.

semid4lyfe:
Someone finally did a longevity comparison of Dangote and NNPC fuel.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGEws60K5OC/?igsh=YzljYTk1ODg3Zg==

Might be paid PR by Dangote but his fuel ran for much longer.

Make una watch.

Did you notice that the fuel from MRS was more? That's in addition to selling substandard fuel, NNPC has tampered with their meter.

Dullresca left Gusto on the pitch till he played Brighton onside and cost us a goal

vazsily:
Hmmmmm! But at 18.8% investing in Treasury Bill is a bad idea, when inflation is 34.8%. Except perhaps you don't have any need for the cash but I believe investment in the NGX will give far better returns than this oversense by CBN bcoz of excess supply.

Inflation is the rate of change in prices from one year to another. The government is proposing inflation rate of 15% which will make 20% even more juicy.

Let's say they manage to achieve 25%, it's still around the yield you get from treasury bills.

If your argument is that inflation will continue at 34% within the next one year, then that makes Tbills less desirable. Unfortunately, there are hardly any better options for risk averse investors especially for those with huge funds.

BlueRayDick:
When you tell people these things they will say they are financially disciplined unlike you; that they will not increase their staking power because they won. We all know that’s a lie, but then online people are allowed to lie to themselves and others .

What they don’t know is that if people were making money off sports betting as much as they want us to believe , most bookies will be out of business .

We won't stop saying these things for the young and impressionable among us.

Stake.com where banks drops most of his games has something like a summary that displays your total wins and losses. There's a reason banks will post every screenshot but not that one.

Banks once said he was planning to set up a bet company. This means he must like losing money because if he was winning so much, why be on the other side?

No update on Banks game today. Most people don't understand the psychological aspect to betting.

You win 300,000 with 5k day before yesterday, you are not going to play yesterday's game with 5k. You are going to play all 10 games with 10k and then play all 10 flex 1 with another 10k. That's 200k lost the day after. Even if you fight the psychological battle and played with 5k, you still lose 50k. It will take the bet company six days to collect the money you won.

This is the story of many bettors. Don't be deceived by the fancy screenshots.