Headlines
Timi Frank Urges AGF Malami To Resign Over Invasion Of Justice Odili’s House
Former Deputy Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Timi Frank has referred to as on the Lawyer Basic of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to resign over his embarrassment and selective focusing on of judicial officers from the South.
He condemned in robust phrases the unlawful invasion of the home of the second most senior Justice of the Supreme Courtroom, Justice Mary Odili by safety operatives on the behest of the Malami-led Ministry of Justice.
He mentioned regardless of Malami’s rash denial of his involvement within the shameful saga, “he (Malami) can not totally distance himself from the sting operation in view of earlier state sponsored impunity towards chosen Justices of the Supreme Courtroom and Judges of the Federal Excessive Courtroom, below his watch.
Frank, who’s the United Liberation Motion for West Papua (ULMWP), Ambassador to East Africa and Center East, in a press release in Abuja, additionally referred to as on the President, Main Basic Muhammdu Buhari (retd.) to instantly relieve Malami of his job ought to he fail to heed the decision to vacate the workplace of AGF.
He mentioned the necessity to change Malami has develop into crucial to cease incessant harassment, intimidation and molestation of judicial officers in addition to the denigration and desecration of the judiciary by Malami and safety businesses performing on his orders.
He mentioned Malami has continued to clandestinely promote acts of terror and impunity towards Judicial Officers within the nation in an try to cow them and render the judiciary subservient to the manager arm of presidency.
He recalled the assault towards Justices and Judges in 2016, when operatives of the Division of State Companies forcefully invaded and raided the residences of some Justices and judges below the quilt of night time.
He insisted that the manifest impunity towards the justices below Malami’s watch was adopted by the unceremonious removing of the previous Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen who’s from the South, by the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress’ (APC) regime barely 29 days to the 2019 common elections.
He lampooned makes an attempt by Malami to brush the current violation of Justice Odili’s home below the carpet by saying he has ordered a
probe into the sickening and anti-democratic motion of safety operatives towards a revered Justice of the Supreme Courtroom.
“What’s the results of previous inquiries ordered by Malami when the residences of chosen Supreme Courtroom Justices and Federal Excessive Courtroom judges had been invaded in a gestapo-style by the DSS in 2016?” he requested.
Recall that Justices whose homes had been raided by the DSS and EFCC looking for phantom incriminating proof in 2016 embody Sylvester Ngwuta and John Okoro of the Supreme Courtroom and Adeniyi Ademola, and Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja.
Others embody a choose of the Kano Excessive Courtroom, Kabiru Auta, Chief Decide of Enugu State, A. I. Umezulike and Gombe State choose, Muazu Pindiga.
The residences of Justice Samia of the Sokoto state Excessive Courtroom and Justice Mohammed Liman in Port Harcourt had been additionally raided.
He mentioned it’s curious that each Malami, EFCC and DSS have denied complicity within the current goal witch-hunt towards Justice Odili, whereas the police whose operatives carried out the motion have refused to both deny or come clean with their nefarious misadventure.
He puzzled why Malami and has continued his devious mission of “selective focusing on” of Southerners within the prime echelon of the judiciary.
It was Justice Onnoghen yesterday, as we speak it’s Justice Odili, who’s the subsequent judicial officer that can fall to Malami’s hammer of politically motivated impunity.
He insisted that Malami have to be held accountable for the present invasion and any future hurt towards Justice Odili, “who the hawks within the Buhari’s regime are wanting to take away from workplace to stop her from succeeding the incumbent CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad merely due to her geopolitical linage.
“They’ve a clandestine motive to take away the fearless jurist as a result of she is the subsequent in line to succeed the incumbent CJN. It’s a technique to take away her on time forward of the 2023 common elections figuring out totally properly that she can’t be purchased of pocketed by the APC’s regime,” Frank declared.
He referred to as on the Worldwide Group to restrain Malami from attending or taking part in any worldwide fora on judiciary and authorized issues over his try to subjugate and in the end destroy the Nigerian judiciary.
He additionally referred to as on the Secretary of Justice of america and the U.S. Authorities to position a visa ban on Malami over his steady assaults towards judicial officers and judiciary in Nigeria with a purpose to pacify, weaken and escalate them forward of APC’s deliberate rigging of the 2023 common elections.
He urged the Nationwide Govt of the Nigerian Bar Affiliation (NBA) to be brave in tackling the hazard being posed to the judiciary and judicial officers in Nigeria by Malami by robust punitive measures towards him, together with his instant suspension from the Bar.
He additionally referred to as on the Nationwide Meeting to analyze the unlawful invasion of Justice Odili’s home, an motion he described as a “grave menace” to democracy in Nigeria.
