A huge number of people featuring youths, women and men, yesterday,protested with on voice on the streets of Warri, Delta State, demanding the release of their son, Chief James Ibori by the London Court on the case coming up on tomorrow saying that the court should release Ibori since it has found no evidence against him.
According to Osundefender newsmen, the protesters were well over 5,000 carried placards with various inscription, some of which read, “Judge Pitts release Ibori for us for lack of evidence. We want our son back. You cannot keep our Ibori there when you lack evidence”, “Our son is innocent,”.
“The decision goes against the grain of legal procedures and it’s ominous because it reinforces the belief in some quarters that Ibori had been targeted for jail by hook or crook by the British authorities for reason yet unknown particularly because the procedure being adopted by the British court smacks of working from answer to question. What further gives us serious thought is that the credibility and the internationally-recognised and applauded British judiciary is being “showcased” to the world as not above human manipulation, dictated to and cajoled to suit outlandish proclivity of individual as against best practices in the legal jurisprudence,” Chief Gabriel Efeduku, a media analyst, one of the protesters, said
“The likes of Clark have sullied the time-tested judiciary of Britain because the confession that they forged evidence to convict Ibori is an indictment of British judiciary. We are very much aware that if such an legal summersault and episode should happen in Nigeria, nay Africa, the British press will have a field day lampooning the Africa judiciary,” he further stated.
The case of the former governor in London court comes up on April 9 to 11.
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