“The charges against the journalist make a mockery of our legal system.” FalseImprisonment Nigeria PressFreedom AgbaJalingo FreeAgbaJalingo
It described the charges of treason against the journalist as a “shameful and ridiculous trivialisation of our criminal laws.”
Jalingo was charged after a week of being detained with ‘acts of treason, treasonable felony, and threatening through various publications and the social media, using malicious publications, instigating the people of Nigeria to stage protest for the removal of Governor of Cross River State from office without due process of law” under Section 41 of the Criminal Code Act.
“The charges against the journalist make a mockery of our legal system. They amount to a shameful and ridiculous trivialisation of our criminal laws. They have the effect of undermining the integrity of the Nigerian police and will ultimately result in robbing the state of the ability of using these legal provisions in deserving cases as both the state and the laws would have lost credibility in the eyes of the people.
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