BY ATEM JOHN.
While most people barely frowned at the recent critical legal submissions by Sen. Ita Enang regarding the present political developments in Akwa Ibom state as unguarded and misleading an Abuja based lawyer has taken steps beyond just frowning by suing for the prosecution of the distinguished former law maker. Barr. Okpo Ewa who is a vibrant legal activist has before now expressed his disagreements with the former law maker on articles, broadcast interviews and public hearings wrote to the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice asking for fiat to prosecute the senator as a private prosecutor or in the alternative the A.G should prosecute the accused himself. According to the lawyer the former law maker turned presidential aide has made inciting comments against the state government which if not well managed can cause serious crisis in the state and civil disobedience.
The letter was received and acknowledged by the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday 12th January 2016 to send feed back by Thursday 14th January 2016.
"People should know that there are limits to criticisms, mediocrity and shenanigans. There are legal and moral boundaries to everything we do or say. So for a lawyer whose call peers are Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), Justices of Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and who is also a veteran law maker to wake up and tell the public that there is no Governor in a state when there is pending litigation on the election of the governor is very wrong. There are states in Nigeria that can burn if you say something like that. The last time we had opposition leaders malign the the state government like this was in 2011 and the violence that followed eventually is still fresh in our memory. Something has to be done to bring order to such civic recklessness even if it would take making a scapegoat out of suppose sacred cow. I'm very ready to run this cause and should the A.G fail in his duties then some of us I'm afraid may have to sue for his relief." He said.
No comments:
Post a Comment