October 25, 2019

  Very simple! The court did not sit.   That is the simple way lawyers describe what happened. But in a more transparent manner of speaking, the judge who fixed today for trial, failed to show up. She found something more important than the liberty of those whose freedom depend on a timely conclusion of the trial. Today, it affected Emeka Ugwuonye, but all this while, it has been affecting thousands of Nigerians. DPA recognized this problem and had been aiming to tackle it as a cultural and structural problem, facing Nigeria. Like other things that have happened since his unlawful arrest and detention, Emeka experiences the problems he had suspected existed in the administration of justice in Nigeria. That experience increases our resolve to seek reforms and changes in the system.   Our members met him in court today and we talked about this. He was not disappointed. He said that he knew these things happen and was well prepared for them. We also spoke to the lawyers who strongly believe he will be out on bail soon.   The Founder sent his regards to all of you.

  Very simple! The court did not sit.   That is the simple way lawyers describe what happened. But in a more transparent manner of speaking, the judge who fixed today for trial, failed to show up. She found something more important than the liberty of those whose freedom depend on a timely conclusion of the trial. Today, it affected Emeka Ugwuonye, but all this while, it has been affecting thousands of Nigerians. DPA recognized this problem and had been aiming to tackle it as a cultural and structural problem, facing Nigeria. Like other things that have happened since his unlawful arrest and detention, Emeka experiences the problems he had suspected existed in the administration of justice in Nigeria. That experience increases our resolve to seek reforms and changes in the system.   Our members met him in court today and we talked about this. He was not disappointed. He said that he knew these things happen and was well prepared for them. We also spoke to the lawyers who strongly believe he will be out on bail soon.   The Founder sent his regards to all of you.

  Very simple! The court did not sit.   That is the simple way lawyers describe what happened. But in a more transparent manner of speaking, the judge who fixed today for trial, failed to show up. She found something more important than the liberty of those whose freedom depend on a timely conclusion of the trial. Today, it affected Emeka Ugwuonye, but all this while, it has been affecting thousands of Nigerians. DPA recognized this problem and had been aiming to tackle it as a cultural and structural problem, facing Nigeria. Like other things that have happened since his unlawful arrest and detention, Emeka experiences the problems he had suspected existed in the administration of justice in Nigeria. That experience increases our resolve to seek reforms and changes in the system.   Our members met him in court today and we talked about this. He was not disappointed. He said that he knew these things happen and was well prepared for them. We also spoke to the lawyers who strongly believe he will be out on bail soon.   The Founder sent his regards to all of you.

  Very simple! The court did not sit.   That is the simple way lawyers describe what happened. But in a more transparent manner of speaking, the judge who fixed today for trial, failed to show up. She found something more important than the liberty of those whose freedom depend on a timely conclusion of the trial. Today, it affected Emeka Ugwuonye, but all this while, it has been affecting thousands of Nigerians. DPA recognized this problem and had been aiming to tackle it as a cultural and structural problem, facing Nigeria. Like other things that have happened since his unlawful arrest and detention, Emeka experiences the problems he had suspected existed in the administration of justice in Nigeria. That experience increases our resolve to seek reforms and changes in the system.   Our members met him in court today and we talked about this. He was not disappointed. He said that he knew these things happen and was well prepared for them. We also spoke to the lawyers who strongly believe he will be out on bail soon.   The Founder sent his regards to all of you.

  Very simple! The court did not sit.   That is the simple way lawyers describe what happened. But in a more transparent manner of speaking, the judge who fixed today for trial, failed to show up. She found something more important than the liberty of those whose freedom depend on a timely conclusion of the trial. Today, it affected Emeka Ugwuonye, but all this while, it has been affecting thousands of Nigerians. DPA recognized this problem and had been aiming to tackle it as a cultural and structural problem, facing Nigeria. Like other things that have happened since his unlawful arrest and detention, Emeka experiences the problems he had suspected existed in the administration of justice in Nigeria. That experience increases our resolve to seek reforms and changes in the system.   Our members met him in court today and we talked about this. He was not disappointed. He said that he knew these things happen and was well prepared for them. We also spoke to the lawyers who strongly believe he will be out on bail soon.   The Founder sent his regards to all of you.

With a good strategic analysis of what is going on in Emeka Ugwuonye's case, there should be no need to panic. Things are working to DPA's advantage, so far. If the police had just threatened Emeka and refused to investigate Chacha's murder, it will be a small thing in a country where many terrible things happen. Maybe, it would all die with time. If the police had arrested Emeka on July 7, 2018 and released him July 10, 2018 and ended it there, it would have been a small misunderstanding. It might just go away. If that was it, the police might not look too bad. But God wanted the true nature of the police to come out for the world to see. So, the police had to go to the extent to fabricate a murder charge against Emeka. It became a big story. If the police had withdrawn the charges and let Emeka go, it would not be a big problem. But God wanted the police to expose themselves.   If the judge had granted Emeka bail, by now, everybody would have forgotten. But it was necessary for Emeka to be detained for this long in order for the attention of the world to be focused on the matter.   With what has happened, a small problem has become a big one. We now know how the police kill innocent people and falsely accuse them of crimes. The world would hear Emeka explain how David is suspected of responsibility for what happened to Chacha. This case will be turned into the trial of the Nigerian police. .   So, it was important to DPA for this case to take its full course. That is the way for the world is to know what is happening inside the police. Without this case, Emeka would not have been able to interview 800 inmates from Abattoir to prison.  Without this case, we would not have known how the courts aid the police in the atrocities.   This case is very strategically Important.

The Vice President of Nigeria is right on both points he makes in the Punch article below. Social media, in a society with diminished virtue and high level of ignorance, could become a devastating weapon of mass destruction. In Nigeria, both the government and individuals  have abused social media. No one knows this better than Emeka Ugwuonye, our Founder. The Nigerian police, via a criminal Deputy Police Commissioner, convicted Emeka on social media. A corrupt official of the Nigeria Supreme Court took bribe and disbarred Emeka Ugwonye on social media. And some ignorant people also disbarred him in America through social media. They use social media to peddle lies. People who didn't finish WAEC all of s sudden became experts on how to disbar a lawyer, even overseas. The blackmailer-in-chief, Sowore and Sahara Reporters, used social media to convince the gullible that Emeka was disbarred. How can you disbar a lawyer without any court order signed by a judge of the highest court in the relevant jurisdiction? Wife beaters and scammers and Internet fraudsters ganged up to use social media to attack DPA. The Vice President is crying out now because he just received a little bit of what Emeka has suffered since the invention of social media. They already used social media to scare the Vice President from ever trying to run for Presidency. If Emeka were not a very tough person, they would have used social media to kill DPA.   Yes, we know how potently destructive the social media has been in less developed societies with high level of malcontent and ignorance, such as Nigeria. Yet, we believe that the best form of policing for social media is self policing. Each person has to regulate himself or herself.   The funny irony about the social media is that when a person embraces it the first time, he or she thinks she has become strong, powerful and influential. She becomes a tigress in her mind. She begins to bully people. If you don't return her calls or acknowledge her presence, she uses her new power to slam you.   But then the process comes a full circle. In 5 years time, she sees that her life has diminished rather than improved. The reason is that access to the social media does not automatically change what you are. If you are not solidly educated and you do not have good virtues to give out, you will all be giving out the emptiness and negativity in you. Those don't last. In a few years, you are burnt out and you return to where you are - empty, poor and without friends.   http://punchng.com/social-media-regulation-not-best-option-osinbajo/