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Investment / Re: Crypto Is Not Just For Me, Massive Loss (millions Gone Under 2 Days by hopilo: 12:50pm On Nov 11, 2022 |
GREATIGBOMAN:Don't please. I beg you don't. You need to be guided. those that exchange with Malam are having same fluctuation |
Politics / Akan Okon Vs Umo Eno* How Defense Collapsed Irredeemably. By Manfred Ekpe by hopilo: 5:04am On Oct 19, 2022 |
*AKAN OKON VS UMO ENO* HOW THE DEFENCE CASE HAS COLLAPSED IRREDEEMABLY. By Manfred Ekpe, Esq. I had earlier said that beyond merit, the Akan Okon vs. Umo Eno's case might be won and lost on technicalities. However, from all the circumstances of the matter, the defence have no doubt deployed all technicalities known to our legal system but in my considered view, all have failed irredeemably as the plaintiff seems to have laid hidden legal traps that seems to have deactivated and neutralized all those technical maneuvers in one of the best fought legal battles in the Nigerian electoral jurisprudence. *The Collapse of Police Evidence* Let us examine, from the legal point of view, beyond paid media nuisance, the much talked about evidence of CSP Chris Enderly the police witness, and how Plaintiff have destroyed his entire evidence so that non existed again at the time plaintiff counsel had finished with him. CSP Enderly was subpeonaed (summoned to court) by subpeona ad testificandum et duces tecum, meaning that he was invited to court to tender documents and testify as defense witness on those documents. The police witness mounted the witness box, swore to an oath, tendered a letter from WAEC dated 8 August 2022 which purported to disown the letter written from WAEC to an NGO called the Association for Advancement of Democracy in Nigeria (AADN) dated 8 April 2022 (which disowned the 1983 GCE result of Pst. Umo Eno). Under cross examination, CPS Enderly admitted that he signed and received the WAEC letter to the police which is dated 8th August 2022 on 5th August 2022, meaning he received the said letter 4 days before WAEC wrote it! When his attention was drawn to this fact by the plaintiff's lead counsel, Okey Amaechi SAN, the senior police officer with years of experience and exposure to the rudiments of court heat, went into hypertensive mode with profuse sweat soaking his clothes in an air conditioned courtroom. He became uncoordinated, and apparently forget other answers he was coached to give. The police witness became so uncoordinated and panicky that he ended up destroying the entire evidence of defendants. judges study the demeanour or behavior of parties before court to arrive at a conclusion whether or not they are witness of truth. It must be noted that in the absence of Pst. Umo Eno in court to testify as a star witness in his own case, CSP Enderly became the star witness and the entire defence's case was built around his evidence. Where the evidence of a star witness has been demolished, the case is a bad one. To worsen the situation, the said letter from WAEC tendered by the police witness which purportedly disowned the AADN letter, actually ended up not helping the defence's case. For clarity, the WAEC letter tendered by CSP Enderly cited certificate no. *SG 699413* and candidate no.*15520230* as the authentic certificate it was investigating. These certificate and candidate numbers are not those in the 1983 GCE certificate of Pst. Umo Eno. Pst. ENO'S 1983 GCE certificate bears certificate no. *PO 275878A* and candidate no.*15725119*. The AADN letter written by WAEC (which disowned the 1983 GCE certificate) tendered by Akan Okon has cited the correct certificate and candidate nos on Pst. Umo Eno's 1983 GCE certificate which he gave to PDP and the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, and UNIUYO. In the eyes of the law, the letter from WAEC tendered by the police witness was in respect of another WAEC Letter to AADN but not in respect of the one tendered by Akan Okon. This leaves the AADN letter tendered by Akan Okon which purported to deny the existence of Pst. Umo Eno's 1983 GCE certificate intact and unchallenged by the defendants. The legal effect is that Akan Okon's allegation of forgery is deemed true and proved beyond reasonable doubt in the eyes of the law. We must know that the eyes of human is not the eyes of the the law. Something may be true in human eyes but not true in the eyes of the law. Again, another gaffe done by the police witness, CSP Chris Enderly, was that the certified true copy of Pst. Umo Eno's 1981 and 1983 certificates attached to the said WAEC letter dated 8 August 2022 and addressed to the police, were all certified by WAEC on 5th August 2022. But whereas the WAEC letter itself was dated 8th August 2022, meaning that WAEC had already certified those certificates for the purpose of the investigation even before Investigation commenced! Another technical grounds that stands to discredit the entire evidence of the police witness and by extension the entire case of the defence is that Pst. Umo Eno addressed a petition to the CP demanding Investigation of the source of the AADN letter. The Commissioner of Police ordered Investigation as requested. Therefore, the report of the investigation ought to have been given to the CP who ordered the investigation and it will be the property of the Nigeria Police Force. CSP Enderly is only an officer or servant of the Nigeria Police Force under the CP. It is settled law that a servant cannot be compelled by the court of law to produce his principal or master's document in court. Only the master can be ordered to do so. It is only the master that can permit the servant to go to court and tender such document and testify on it. See the case of *Famakinwa vs. Unibadan (1992) 7 NWLR (Pt.960) 374 at 391*. CPS Enderly did not show evidence to the court that his principal, the commissioner of police, had permitted him to appear in court, tender police documents and give evidence. The legal effect of this gaffe is that all the evidence he gave were illegal, null and void, inadmissible and entitled to be expunged (deleted) from court record as if they never existed. From the legal prism, I fail to see how the defendants can win this case. I see Mr. Akan Okon flying the PDP flag for the 2023 guber election in Akwa Ibom State. All the defense witnesses were simply terrible so much so that I am terrified as to such bad and uncoordinated evidence adduced by them. No doubt, the Defence legal team are one of the best in the country, but Akan Okon has successfully set up legal traps all over the place even before the case had commenced. The quiet soft spoken man seems to have planned this case for some time while Umo Eno was clearly taken totally unawares and off guard. I therefore seek this opportunity to advice those who have discrepancies in their particulars to take appropriate and lawful steps to correct them now. Or else you might with your two naked eyes see, and hear with your own ears the court declaring that you are not you. That another person is you.
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Politics / Re: Senate Passes Electoral Offences Commission Bill. by hopilo: 6:36pm On Jul 15, 2021 |
GSM is not the only means of connectivity. Half of my life, l stay in a location without GSM. I still communicate, send messages do video and voice with satellite phone. INEC can deploy SAT phones across all polling units. Nigeria should be better than this today. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Electronic Transmission Of Election Result:see Names Of Senators Who Voted YES & by hopilo: 5:39pm On Jul 15, 2021 |
The north is the stumbling block for Nigeria development |
Education / Re: He Speaks English Well But Can Not Read And Write by hopilo: 7:00pm On Jul 04, 2021 |
taiwotimitt:Possible as l get senior cousin if A big as this forum he can’t read and write but good orator and he use it to scam big ladies those days and l keep wondering how he did that |
Politics / Re: Police Officers Push Patrol Van At Venue Of Yoruba Nation Rally In Lagos by hopilo: 5:40am On Jul 04, 2021 |
chatinent:Your WhatsApp number |
Politics / Re: Reno Omokri Blasts El-Rufai For Withdrawing His Son From A Public School by hopilo: 5:37am On Jul 04, 2021 |
nairalandankrah:I don’t count proceeds of corruption to be riches. |
Politics / Re: EFCC Resumes $8.4 Million Fraud Case Against Patience Jonathan by hopilo: 4:02pm On Jun 28, 2021 |
Doreme 1 Like |
Romance / Re: Why Do Men Lose Interest In Women After Sleeping With Them? by hopilo: 11:19pm On Jun 26, 2021 |
See finish 1 Like |
Family / Re: “If You Fight My Side Chick, I Will Upgrade Her To Wife” - Nigerian Man. by hopilo: 2:36pm On Jun 22, 2021 |
DontBullshitMe:Wife grew from girlfriend to become Wife, Second wife grow from side chick to become second wife in the polygamous family |
Politics / Re: Niger Delta Groups React To Ibom Republic Request For Self Determination by hopilo: 8:50pm On Jun 18, 2021 |
Ibom Republic 4 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Ngige: South East, Not Marginalised by hopilo: 7:53am On Jun 14, 2021 |
Inconsequential DOT speaking |
Politics / Re: El-Rufai Reacts as Ekiti Suspends Minimum Wage, Slashes Workers' Salaries by hopilo: 4:21am On Jun 05, 2021 |
aryzgreat:When will you learn that Fulanis don’t deal of political parties. They think ethnicity first. They will choose a Fulani of PDP over Yoruba of APC and they will support a Fulani of Niger republic over Igbo of Nigeria in an international contest involving the two nation 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Amotekun Arrests 45 Northern Youths In Ondo, 'Going For Military Training' by hopilo: 4:45pm On May 01, 2021 |
Canvass:An insider could also be the shoe shining Aboki that has moved round surveying your town in the name of shining shoe. These things had been planned years ago and Buhari government which south west supported is just the execution end as Ortom has rightly submitted |
Religion / Re: Reverend Father Enyinnaya: How I Have Survived Women’s Pressure For 32 Years by hopilo: 5:47am On Apr 18, 2021 |
Normal |
Science/Technology / Re: Nasa's Mars Helicopter Touch Down On Red Planet (Photos) by hopilo: 8:49pm On Apr 04, 2021 |
In MARS people don’t die. |
Politics / Re: The 3.29% Turnout At The Aba North/south Bye-election Is Worrisome by hopilo: 1:29pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
Men so these guys mind don leave Nigeria. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Tinubu Announces N50m Donation For Victims Of Katsina Market Fire by hopilo: 7:41pm On Mar 24, 2021 |
Politics / Re: Army Says Report Of Military Attack On ESN Camp In Abia Is Fake by hopilo: 7:28pm On Mar 24, 2021 |
Is the report of ESPN attack on military real? |
Politics / Re: Fani-Kayode Was Hanging New Pictures On The Wall With Hammer - Media Aide by hopilo: 5:44am On Mar 20, 2021 |
Luther0luther:Good to do something’s yourself. Don’t kill the servant they are human too |
Sports / Re: The Champions League Quarter Finals by hopilo: 2:36pm On Mar 19, 2021 |
Bayarn vs Chelsea final 2 Likes |
Business / Re: Ghanaian Gospel Musician Reveals Licking Wife’s Vagina As Key To His Successful by hopilo: 1:40am On Mar 18, 2021 |
E show for your mouth |
Education / Re: Awin International Schools, Uyo: Sexual Abuse Rocks Akwa Ibom School by hopilo: 5:09am On Jan 22, 2021 |
Celebrities / Re: Stingy Men: Toke Makinwa Needs To Sign Up For Close Legs Association by hopilo: 3:03pm On Jan 12, 2021 |
OscarJaden:So she really been Dey open legs for Unilag? Things must have gone through btw the legs oo |
Politics / Re: Edo Man Collects ₦43,000 From POS Operator, Leaves Wife, 3 Kids As Collateral by hopilo: 6:42pm On Jan 10, 2021 |
This is liability not collateral |
Romance / Re: I Told My Wife That The Dna Result Of Our Kids Will Be Ready Tomorrow. See What by hopilo: 11:06pm On Jan 05, 2021 |
Rhesusmonkey:No mind the Linus who forgot to check the time of his post 1 Like |
Crime / Re: 16-year-old Barakat Melojuekun Begs Nigerians To 'Allow The Matter To Rest’ by hopilo: 8:10am On Jan 04, 2021 |
I doubt this girl right from the first video of the rape. The accuracy at which she identified everyone around that commissioner was suspicious to me. She mentioned them all by their names and Surname. 3 Likes |
Crime / Re: Attempted Rape: Abiodun Abudu-Balogun Denies Sexual Harassment Allegation by hopilo: 11:34pm On Jan 02, 2021 |
This girl seem to know the names of everyone she met in the process to meet this honorable. She knows their First name, Middle name and Surname. That’s a red flag for me 2 Likes |
Religion / Re: Chris Oyakhilome: There Are Curses For People Who Criticise Men Of God by hopilo: 10:21pm On Jan 02, 2021 |
Is there any curse for yahoo people deceiving people in the name of God? 1 Like |
Crime / Re: Deeper Life School Molested Student: Parents Demand N100m Compensation by hopilo: 10:16am On Jan 02, 2021 |
This looks like what was the intent. School did not sexually molest the boy. She said some students did and she knows the students, why not charge the abuser? Starvation of student, don’t know how that will be proven, school meal is not like house meal, l work where l am fed till l go on off duty, every time I return l am lose weight because I don’t like some of the food they cook. Can l sue the company for starvation? I think No |
Politics / Re: Cally Air: Upheave Cross River State IGR Fortune In Challenging Skies by hopilo: 7:14pm On Dec 30, 2020 |
Nice development |
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