#Querious fight club code#
#Querious fight club trial#

There is clearly a need for the National Judicial Council to investigate Masari’s Plateau judge’s interest in the case and establish if it was ethically correct for him to take the brief? I think the day it becomes the prerogative of a governor to appoint a judge over a case he initiates is the day we will kiss goodbye to independence of that respected arm of government, judiciary, which most of us still consider the only hope of the masses. It would have been fair for the panelists not to believe hook, line and sinker the evidences of witnesses now appear to be like Caesar’s wife – above board. Granted that the notoriety of Nigerian politicians to filibuster criminal trials through legalese is legendary, but a one-sided hearing cannot be a substitute for due process.

#Querious fight club trial#

Shema’s lawyer, Uyi, who put up a “protest appearance” was neither permitted to cross-examined the witnesses nor any of the over 700-page documents tendered in the one-day trial given to him to peruse and raise questions. Is it not curious that a panel would sit without hearing notice given to all parties? After asking the Chairman to step aside, would it not be fair to explain to the parties how Ado Muhammed Maaji, an APC card-carrying member emerged as the man to submit the panel report and in what capacity at midnight a day after its ONLY sitting? After spending millions of taxpayers money on the kangaroo trial, there are a preponderance of grounds to stop the operationalisation of the controversial conclusions. The story behind the trial is interesting. Besides the red-herring, these shambolic probes are merely what Shakespeare describes as “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.

How else can we explain a situation where a governor who is yet to account for two tranches of bail out and the refund from Paris Club claim to be a champion of the anti-corruption war?įor me, the Katsina graft war is like all others in the other states where incumbent governors are also up in arms against their predecessors with scant regard for fact and due process. Indeed, it is only when a China man or woman wants to curse you that they deploy the phraseology “interesting times”. They say, like the Chinese, that we are living in “interesting times in Nigeria”. Many more believe that the State Governors, without clear strategy only use the anti-graft “war” to cloak their incompetence, lack of preparedness for office and shift attention from their own corrupt practices.

#Querious fight club code#

It can be the only reason the fight against graft has suffered both in the courts of competent jurisdiction and of public opinion in recent times.įor instance, many feel that had due diligence been carried out, the sting operations and cases of criminal prosecution carried out by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), Department of State Service (DSS) and the Code of Conduct Tribunal in recent times against the former First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan former Minister of Niger Delta Godsday Orubebe senior advocate Mike Ozekhome and the duo of Justice Adeniyi Ademola and his wife would not have embarrassed the Nigerian government. This exposed the hiatus between fighting against corruption and understanding due process in the fight against graft.įor many what transpired in Katsina was symptomatic of the hasty manner investigation and prosecution are carried out in a manner that suggests persecution. It is therefore curious that the committee that sat only once, on June 1, came about the report submitted at mid-night on June 2 to Governor Bello Masari.