Pyrates Confraternity not a Secret Cult, Rivers Court Rules
For the second time, a Rivers State High Court has delivered judgement in favour of the National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity, affirming that the group is not a secret cult.
The association had in 2005, challenged its listing as a secret cult in the Rivers State Secret Cult and Similar Activities Law No.
The eminent jurist, ordered that the association’s name be delisted from the state schedule. He also gave an order of ‘perpetual injunction’ restraining the respondents in the suit from listing the name of the association in subsequent amendments by the government of the state. He said “The rule of law cannot be negotiated and people who make laws must be seen to also obey the law. In our organisation, we say that justice must always be the first condition of our congregating ethos.”
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