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We Remember the amazing Dr. Stella Adadevoh who sacrificed her life to prevent the spread of Eboloa virus in Nigeria in 2014.
Nigeria remains eternally grateful. Your legacy as a courageous and patriotic heroine will never be forgotten.
Rest in peace 🪦 🕊️
🍼 Futbol A Takımı oyuncularımızdan Victor Osimhen ile Stefanie’nin bir kız çocuğu dünyaya geldi.
Victor ve Stefanie çiftini tebrik ediyor; yeni doğan bebekleri Liora Audrey’e uzun, sağlıklı ve mutlu bir ömür diliyoruz! 🧿
The Statue of Liberty is the Devil⁉
Beyond just physical resemblance, the story behind America's most famous statue brings more interesting similarities to light than you'd imagine.
I wonder if there's something more to this.
Why I Became a Laughing Stock in Court Today
Today, I appeared before the Federal High Court, Abeokuta Division, in a criminal matter. I appeared for the defence.
It was only yesternight that I was briefed, and so I began my preparations, as any serious lawyer would.
But I also made a decision.
I told myself that I would begin doing what may seem unthinkable whenever I represent a defendant taking a plea.
Whenever my client takes a plea at the High Court, whether State or Federal, I will attempt to make an oral application for their freedom, pending the determination of the case.
I have never believed that the traditional practice of automatically consigning a presumed innocent person to remand, before the case against them is heard, is justice. To me, it is punishment before conviction.
And when you have visited Nigerian detention facilities, as I have occasionally done as an activist, you understand what that punishment means.
You see the decay. You see the overcrowding. You see the conditions in which human beings are kept. You begin to understand the unimaginable suffering that can come with spending even one night there.
Some of these places should not ordinarily house goats, let alone human beings.
But what surprised me today, and at the same time did not really surprise me, was not the condition of the system.
It was the reaction in court when I sought the permission of the judge to make an oral application for my client’s bail.
As soon as I made the request, the courtroom went agog.
Laughter. Murmurs. Then all eyes turned towards this “naive lawyer.”
For a moment, I became the subject of amusement.
But I was not naive because I did not know the law. In fact, I knew beforehand the possible consequences of what I was about to do.
I simply decided to challenge a practice that we have become so accustomed to that questioning it now sounds strange.
My conviction about what justice ought to be pushed me to make that daring request.
Today, I quickly succumbed to the refusal of the judge.
Next time, I intend to stand my ground.
Because somewhere along the line, we have become too comfortable with a system that takes away people’s liberty first and asks questions later.
A person who has not been convicted remains presumed innocent.
Detention should not quietly become the punishment for being accused.
If there is a written law that prevents an oral application for bail at the point of plea, then let us confront that law.
But where the law permits the court to exercise its discretion, liberty should not be sacrificed merely because a particular procedure has become the norm.
I may be one lawyer making one seemingly insignificant request in one courtroom today.
But I intend to keep making it.
Because sometimes, challenging an unjust system begins with simply refusing to accept that “this is how we have always done it” is an answer.
So yes, I became a laughing stock in court today.
But if standing up for the liberty of a person who has not been convicted makes me naive, then perhaps we need more of that kind of naivety in our justice system.
This is not justice.