₦airaland Forum

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:
ICPC i think is handling the case and not EFCC..

seunmsg:
The fact that the judge dismissed the case without even allowing a trial says it all. The anti corruption war is doomed if every arm of government keeps protecting their own from punishment.

The executive protected Babachir Lawal and Abba Kyari from prosecution even when weighty allegations were made against them. The National assembly rallied round Saraki and Dino despite the serious corruption and certificate forgery allegations against them. Now, the judiciary has also joined the fray by protecting one of their own.

The federal government should not waste time and resources appealing the high court judgement. They will get the same outcome at the appellate court. The president should start by taking action against those accused of corruption in the executive. That is the only way to send a strong signal that he's serious about the war on corruption.

Marotzke:
Which evidences? Which linkage? Crass ignorance, dislocation between investigation and prosecution.
Crass Ignorance; Magu or Efcc, does not present evidence to the judge, the prosecutor does.
Evidence; A car was bought and given to Ademide ,son of Ademola.
Linkage; You must link the car to justice Ademola. Ie Ademola must be linked by title deeds, car registeration or possesion.
It is hearsay that a car that was bought in Ademide's name, registered to Ademide, driven by Ademide is actually a bribe given to Ademola.
Courts do not work like that.
Dislocation; in saner climes where prosecutors have dignity, the tail does not wag the dog.
Investigating agencies, work with the district attornies to close up loop holes or carry out more investigations before casses are brought to court.
Here , the DSS bungles an investigation, and a shameless prosecutor goes to make a fool of himself in a court, while ignorant commenters blame the judge.

Lifestone:
Thanks jare, these guys are really annoying. We've lost the case with PEJ also. See

Marotzke:
Keep your ambitions moderate, to start with, you have no mind to boggle . Such infantile reasoning? SMH

jeffmyson:
Remember Justice ademola grand father was ounce a chief justice of Nigeria, his father was also a justice of the appeal court.
Ademola tendered evidence in court to show that the funds in his accounts was his share of the proceeds of the sale of thier family estates both in Nigeria and abroad.
Does the law of Nigeria forbids a judge from collecting inheritance from his family assets? We don't know whether that is true or not but it was a duty that should have been done by the investigation authorities before going to court.
The government rushing to CCT to charge ademola for failure to declare assets points likely that the facts presented by ademola might be true!
So in all honesty , this government have failed in its so called war on corruption because it looks like both the investigative and prosecution authorities are grossly incompetent.

AntiWailer:
It is not about frowning.

Sack all the useless lawyers representing the FEDERAL govt.

How do you lose case with damning evidence ?

Eruditor:
So if I went to the wedding of my friend who is a judge I should not give a gift simply because he is presiding over a case that I am defending? No, it makes no sense. There should be something like a subtle way of administering wise judgement and one way to determine that is to reason if the lawyer delivering the gift is capable of affording said money and if the money in question is substantial enough to subvert justice.

It beggars belief that anyone will tender $1200 as a bribe to counter the claim that someone else offered $77k to influence a judgment. And when we place this along with the fact that the "wedding gift" was given 2 months to the wedding- I mean, which fully-functional judgement dismisses this as a lack of evidence.

Jaideyone:
ademola never said the money was his inheritance. why are you making excuses for him? smh

oyb:
on one of the radio talk shows, a lawyer was analysing the situation.

the civil service is not a breeding ground for excellence or performance

it is a wait for your time environment.

anyone who hs had any dealing with workers in the civil service [government] can attest to this.

people who expect to be bribed to do their work, people who enter office after 10am. . .

now take a person who has never done any serious work throughout his/her career, and give him an assignment in which he is pitted against a
hard boiled professional who has been in a competitive environment from day one. . .

it is the same incompetence that you see with police, dss, just about all of them.

no competence, just authority bullying.

so when they face a party that knows their rights and has the finances to back those rights up they fail woefully.

rusher14:
The judge should follow the evidence and stop acting like he's been compromised.

Among exhibits FG tendered before an Abuja High Court at Maitama, included invoice and receipt of a BMW Saloon 320i valued at N8.5 Million, which Agi, SAN, purchased from Coscharis Motors Limited on January 5, 2015 and handed over to the judge through his son, Ademide.


https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/283774/court-dismisses-charges-justice-ademola

Lifestone:
This case was lost purely because of poor investigation and FG & EFCC should be held accountable. Media trial is very different from judicial trial, seems FG relishes in media trial while failing in her responsibility to do a detailed investigation that will allow them get a successful trial.
How do you jail somebody just because he got a "gift" and couldn't link the gift to a crime? It's not for the judge to help FG/EFCC, they must prove their case beyond reasonable doubt. There are more cases to be lost ahead if this lazy investigation approach continues

Butterworth:
Did you even try to open the link you pasted.

Case is won by strong and verifiable evidence and not by hearsay or media trial.

Butterworth:
Did you even try to open the link you pasted.

Case is won by strong and verifiable evidence and not by hearsay or media trial.

deji68:
Read the judgemnent...
He added that according to the testimony of the witness, the foreign currency was part of proceeds from the sale of properties belonging to the parents of the judge which were shared among himself and his siblings.
Mr. Okeke said the first defendant had stated that his legitimate income did not only include his official earnings as a judge, but his inheritance, from a grandfather who was once a Chief Justice of Nigeria and a father who had risen to the height of a Justice of the Appeal Court.
“There is nothing that prevents the first defendant from benefiting from the inheritance of his father,” said Mr. Okeke who added that; “The fact that judges are expected to live humbly does not mean that every judge is church mouse”, that cannot afford to live comfortably.

Jaideyone:
ademola never said the money was his inheritance. why are you making excuses for him? smh

jeffmyson:
Not only is he a judge of a federal high court, justice ademola comes from a family of Jurists, his grand father was ounce a chief Justice of Nigeria, his own father was ounce a justice of the court of Appeal and he himself is a justice too. The federal government made a grave mistake of taking such a man to court without any strong evidence.
I have gone through the government submissions in court and what I found out that was presented were evidence based on "hear say", conjectures, and outright double speak.
I suggest the government should forget this case and stop embarrassing themselves in court.

This government has lost four corruption case in 96 hrs (Orubebe,patience,ademola,ozekhome) due to investigative and prosecutorial incompetence!

Jaideyone:
na ignorance dey worry u. so it's OK to receive gifts through your son from a lawyer in a case you are involved in?

Marotzke:
Nope , you mixed up a whole lot of things , so much that logic, which is very crucial in law is lost. So let us antangle a few things that you got muddled up.

(1) You may have to declare a spouse' assets, if such asset is entirely hers by acquisition or inheritance. Adult children's assets are a no no. Moreso when such children have independent income or business from the public office holder.
Saraki's father inlaw is still alive and his properties have not been shared.
It would be very absurd to expect Bukola Saraki to declare any property belonging to Adekunle Ojora as his families assets.
That his wife is in beneficial possesion does not make it Toyin Sarakis' property.
So anyone looking to see if such assets were declared by Saraki is very much ignorant of the law.

(2) On a flipside. Ademide Ademola is an Adult. Of independent means from his jurist father.
Joe Agi bought a car in Ademide's name, delivered it to Ademide and the car registered to Ademide and being driven by Ademide.
Think whatever you will, you cannot prove that justice Ademola got any car from Agi. Let alone link it to a particular case before him. This is the reason Sting operations take a lot of planning and investigations to conclude.
What DSS should have done is to arrange a clandestine minor accident for the car and demand that the owner take responsibility for the after effects.
Once justice Ademola shows up and accepts ownership, they will quickly "gbab " him. If not, and you can't tie him to the crime, you lay low and wait.

(3) Justice Ademola's wife receiving 30 million. They should have monitored the accounts until suspicious transfers from wife's account to husband account's happen. If you can't nail him on one, wait for another opportunity.
Remember that the entire assets would still be seized on successful conviction,
You also dont expect a smart judge to offer you his head on a platter?
Media trial is a clear sign of gross legal incompetence.

Jaideyone:
it's a shame. a judge spent equivalent of 20yrs salary in one year yet we was discharged and acquitted.

the judiciary is our number two problem after the senate

donpapa:
No, the judiciary is number THREE (with the executive and the senate occupying one and two respectively). If PMB is serious with his corruption fight, let him start from the executive. You can't claim to be fighting corruption when you have Amechi, Fashola, Babachir Lawal, Abba Kyari et al in your cabinet! Buhari's presidency should just stop this charades of travesty. Its taking us 30years backward..

Jaideyone:
foolish opinion. as much as babachir and aba kyari are corrupt and I feel they should be sacked, there are no evidences of corruption against fashola and amaechi. anyone can make statements to implicate both ex-governors but rivers state has refused to publish proofs for Nigerians to see. the corruption in the executive right now is minute compared to what is going on in the senate.
yes buhari is not perfect and he needs to get rid of babachir, Abba kyari, daura lawal and some other people but the NASS is giving us a much bigger problem by victimising magu and Ali for doing their jobs. it's a big shame.
the same senate you are defending has refused to make their budgets public for several years now. these senators have refused to pass the PIB and other bills that will help us grow as a nation. they are only concerned about Ali's uniform and other useless bills.
the judiciary has also been helping the big thieves to escape justice while sending phone thieves to death by hanging. there is no corruption bigger than that. a judge spent equivalent of 20yrs salary in one year while claiming it's his inheritance from his father and grand father who were also judges. how did the father and the grand father make such amount of money? we all know the law of the country doesn't permit civil servants in the country to do any other job or business aside farming. so how did his father and grand father who were civil servants leave 400million for him? this same judge has sentenced people to ten years for crimes of less than a million naira.

it's a shame and a big one at that. I've always been an advocate of young minds staying back in the country to make things work but how are things going to get better in this country when even the judges that are very crucial to the fight against corruption are allowing thieves to walk free?
why do you think the efcc couldn't secure a conviction against ibori while the UK was able to do so? why was odili able to get an injunction against being investigated since he left office in 2007? why did the nnpc GMD have the guts to still approach a court to claim his loot back after 9.8million dollars was found in his house? remember he claimed the money was a gift but he has not been able to tell us those that gifted him the money?

the executive is not perfect but buhari is on the right track. the NASS and the judiciary are the ones currently standing in the way of the progress of this country

rusher14:
The judge should follow the evidence and stop acting like he's been compromised.

Among exhibits FG tendered before an Abuja High Court at Maitama, included invoice and receipt of a BMW Saloon 320i valued at N8.5 Million, which Agi, SAN, purchased from Coscharis Motors Limited on January 5, 2015 and handed over to the judge through his son, Ademide.


https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/283774/court-dismisses-charges-justice-ademola

donpapa:
Hypocrite! Is there any substantive and concrete evidence(s) against Justice Ademola? If the two governors are not corrupt based on what you wrote up there, you have no proof the judge is corrupt too. You should blame the investigators/prosecutors for failing to do there job.
Perhaps you should tell me the number of corruption cases this present administration has won barring the medial trial and unnecessary brouhaha up and down. They kept losing court cases due to there ineffectiveness while the tax payers money is at stake.
I reckon, Buhari isn't fight corruption! He's only after his perceived enemies..

vedaxcool:
I pity many fools on this thread that would jubilate over such a blatant miscarriage of justice... do they ever think this same judges that sentenced a man to 90 years over theft of handset in prison would ever afford them the Ademola treatment whenever they have problems with the law?

PFRB:
How do you prosecute a judge for illegal possession of firearms when the actual case is that the license had expired and there is up to 21 days given for renewal of the license.

How do you prosecute a man for bribery for a gift collected by his adult son and you have not been able to link that gift to the man. It is mere suspicion.