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October 9, 2024 3:47 pmAs the saying goes, “one good turn deserves another”. So, it is only natural for one to expectedly be under obligation to return favour for favour when someone once had your back, in line with the idiosyncratic disposition.
While he was declared wanted, Bello was reportedly holed up in Lugard House, the Kogi state government house in Lokoja, ever since he left office, thus preventing him from being arrested by the EFCC. But, on the 17th of April 2024, the anti-graft agency got wind of Bello’s presence in his Maitama residence in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory , and laid siege on the residence, cordoning off the entire vicinity with a barricade from morning until evening.
The suspect would then leave the EFCC office for the Kogi government lodge in Asokoro, where another episode of the seemingly unending opera would be unveiled. The EFCC operatives reportedly stormed the area, in a bid to arrest a suspect who’d earlier in the day showed up at their office voluntarily, although with constitutional landmines, as illegal shields around himself in Governor Ododo.
I never majored anything in jurisprudence, but I know, like a coin, there are two sides to a law — the letter, and the spirit. In fairness to those who inserted the section into the constitution, the spirit was not to use it to pervert the cause of justice, but to avoid frivolous litigations against the stipulated beneficiaries, to avoid distraction that could affect governance. The letter and spirit of the provision have, unfortunately, been abused.
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