OpEd: Of Orji Kalu, Of Inequality Before The Law By Peniela2008 | Sahara Reporters Somehow we have to fix this moribund system however we want to go about it. And it has to be now. It shouldn't any longer be a misfortune to be a Nigerian. READ MORE:
The already thirteen year old trial of former governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia State is to recommence for another twenty years probably. EFCC by now is looking to regather its 19 witnesses for a fresh cruise. That case if it ever returns to court will burden afresh the already overburdened cause list all at the expense of tax payers the umpteenth time.
He immediately leaves and all the trials he is presiding over no matter how advanced the stages they already are will have to commence de novo . How can this ever make sense to sensible people? The Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015's attempt to cure this malady through its S. 396 by virtue of this Kalu case has effectively been sent to the grave. Admittedly, the provision offends the 1999 constitution and may have been rightly thrown out.
By then, you may have become totally fatigued, some of your key witnesses already dead and then you go home empty handed considering yourself more miserable for attempting to uphold your right in the first place. And that's how a system established to advance justice in a rather ironic twist of fate is now a key player in the vanguard of injustice.
The way we talk years in the Nigerian legal system, you'll think they are equal to days. Sad! How can this be a system? How are the leaders able to sleep watching this kind of unjust system remain? The same ruling elites who have refused to reform the justice system know by their own experience that it is insane, for want of a more gory descriptive, for a litigant to wait for 20 years to get justice in just one case. Which human can confidently boast that he will even be alive in another 20 years from now?
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