Kogi group rises in defence of Yahaya Bello

Media trial which has become the order of the day in Nigeria is simply the act of using media coverage to vilify and portray a suspect or an accused person as a criminal, even without trial.

In the context of Nigerian jurisprudence, a trial is an avenue to challenge the innocence of an accused person…

A political group, the C5, based in Kogi State with representatives from the five local governments and the 64 wards of Okunland, Kogi West Senatorial District and over 1,280 members on Tuesday rose in support of the former governor with a call for fair hearing in his current travails with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, ., stated in part: “I cannot be against the trial of anyone, including Alhaji Yahaya Bello, for corruption.

“As the convener of the C5 group, I condemn any brute and sensational arrest of a suspect such as Bello. It does not matter the station of life of such suspect, whether high or low. It is in this context that we believe the Commission’s tactics in attempting to arrest Bello ought to be situated. While no one quarrels with the Commission’s full mandate to tackle economic crimes, the way and manner in which it does so must however, not portray any impunity or suggest that it is above the law.

This submission on media trial has been tacitly corroborated by the Commission’s Chairman, very hard working and dedicated Mr Olanipekun Olukoyede, who stated, in a now-viral video, that the former Governor of Kogi State declined to come to the agency’s office because he complained that a female Senator had allegedly gathered journalists together to humiliate him anytime he appeared in the office of the agency for interrogation. Obviously, Bello was scared of media trial; so he avoided it.

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