Part 2 of update on Emeka Ugwuonye: Today in court 26/9/2019
IT WAS A BOMBSHELL TODAY IN COURT.
During the continued cross-examination, Emeka Ugwuonye's lawyer asked David Aiyedegbon: "When you saw the picture of the headless body of a woman, which Emeka Ugwuonye posted on Facebook on 26th of June 2016, did you recognize it as the body of your estranged wife?"
David shocked everybody by saying that the legs of the body resembled his wife's and that he recognized it from the picture then.
This was a bomb shell because the while fight between DPA and the police was that DPA said that the body was Chacha's body while David and the police accused DPA of lying about that. For two years, David and the police denied the body and claimed that Chacha was alive and was sighted in Brazil and South Africa in night clubs as recently as in 2017. The first charge the police filed against Emeka Ugwuonye was for lying that the body was Chacha's. Nobody was prepared for David's answer today. If ever David and the police had accepted that the body was Chacha's, DPA would have ended the investigation since because all DPA wanted was to find Chacha, dead or alive.
When the hearing was over today, David was seen outside quarreling with the police lawyers because of the answer he gave to that question. But an intelligent person can understand why he gave that answer today. David knew where Emeka's lawyers would be taking him to soon: why did the police refuse to conduct any test on the body that DPA said was Chacha's body? They failed to conduct any test which would have confirmed the body to be Chacha's. They spent two years denying that the picture was Chacha's only to suddenly admit it was. They claimed that they became aware it was Chacha's only after Jekwu confessed in May 2018.
They now realized that if their only evidence that the body was Chacha's was Jekwu's coerced confession, there may be no evidence that Chacha was dead unless they accepted the theory of DPA. And you cannot accept DPA theory and at the same time be fighting Emeka Ugwuonye for advancing that theory. So, David now dies a u-turn to suggest that they base their present position on David's observation of the body in 2016. Very interesting!
DPA is very happy with the development. We have achieved our first objective which is to show that the headless body of the woman found in Bwari on May 12, 2016 was Chacha's and that both the police and David knew all along that it was Chacha's body. DPA has compelling evidence to show that the police had been lying all along and that they were covering the truth.
Well, God is good! Emeka Ugwuonye was and still is ready to go as far as necessary to bring out the truth the police is covering. Emeka allowed himself to be detained in Abattoir on July 6, 2018 because he wanted to interview Jekwu and Emmanuel and that was the only way he could reach them. Emma's family had been begging Emeka for DPA to help Emmanuel. But Emeka could not decide without speaking to Emma. So, when Emeka was sent to Abattoir, the police saw it as punishing Emeka, while Emeka saw it as an opportunity to interview these boys accused of killing Chacha, to know if they actually did it. In Abattoir, Emeka learned more about how devilish the police were.
When they charged Emeka and remanded him in prison, he was glad to go because he had a mission which would be better served by finding out what goes on there. That is why he insisted that nobody should worry about him being in prison, that him being in prison would help DPA.
Let us be patient and strong, like the man that is leading us in this matter. He swore that a woman like Chacha should not just disappear and there would be no explanation what happened. After 3 years of lying, Chacha's husband admitted in court that immediately he saw the picture of the body shared by DPA in 2016, he knew it was picture of Chacha's body. That brings David to the same position as the Chacha's friend, whose opinion of the pictures Emeka Ugwuonye relied on to conclude that it was Chacha's body.
We hope our members will continue to follow this case.
Update on Emeka Ugwuonye: Today in court 26/9/2019
The hearing was held, but the hearing was adjourned because the judge had a meeting to attend. This affected all cases scheduled today.
The cross-examination of David continued. It was an extremely successful process.
Emeka Ugwuonye was totally satisfied with the work of his lawyers. We are getting closer to the truth and that has been the aim of DPA from the start. We just couldn't not accept that a woman as Chacha would just disappear and it will be covered up. However it takes to find the truth, we are ready for it. It is clear that our opponents totally overrated themselves.
You really needed to be court today to watch David in the witness box. You would have learned a lot more about this case and about human nature.
The case was adjourned till 24 and 29th of October. It is a good timing from Emeka's lawyer's perspective.
God bless you!
AS EXPECTED, DSS WOULD NOT RELEASE SOWORE
What we want is one thing, and what will happen maybe be totally different. That difference is known as reality. The philosophy of focusing on what actually happens rather than on what you would want to happen is called realism. In jurisprudence, it is called the realist school of thought.
Even Falana knew that DSS would not release Sowore now. Indeed, he should be surprised if they did. Then he should wonder why they did not release El-Zakzaky with 25 million followers that are willing to die for his release, or why they did not release Nnamdi Kanu, when the court first ordered them to release him.
What bothers me is that you keep quiet when DSS is doing the same thing to others, but make so much noise when they do it to your friend. This is where DPA is different. We are constantly seeking to change every vestige of injustice in Nigeria. We don't wait until our friend is in trouble before we come out to demand for justice.
As I predicted earlier, Sowore will be arraigned and remanded in Kuje rather than release him. Don't get me wrong. I do not support DSS on Sowore. What I'm doing is to refuse to pretend that a leopard is an antelope. Until you join the comprehensive effort to ensure justice for all, your selective effort to ensure justice for some, but not others, will fail. Sowore is going through the reality of Nigeria. And I repeat, Sowore has supported that reality when others were at the receiving end.
This is what we expect DSS to do. They may release him and rearrest him on the spot. They may just rush him to court to arraign him. They may also cook up other ways to continue to keep him. Certain things going on out there will not make a difference. DSS will try to resist pressure.
I know the matter will be resolved, and quite dramatically, but not the way you guys expect. Take out all the student union elements in your approach. Until we change the institutions involved in Nigeria justice system, what you see now is like seeing 4 after adding 2 and 2. There should be no surprises.
If Sowore is arraigned tomorrow or whenever he is arraigned, he will probably be meeting Emeka Ugwuonye. I am sure Emeka will be nice and kind to him, and even teach him some survival skills he would need in prison.
Keep watching events.
Life is full of ironies: Sowore and Ugwuonye
In 2009, a Nigerian Ambassador to Washington, Ade Adefuye, paid Sowore substantial amount of money for him to use his Sahara Reporters to destroy Emeka Ugwuonye. Sowore took the money and went to work. He published repeatedly malicious falsehood against Emeka Ugwuonye.
Emeka tried to fight back by suing Sowore in America for defamation. Adefuye used Farida Waziri, then head of EFCC, to detain Emeka in Nigeria in 2011 when Emeka came on a visit to Nigeria. Sowore made a deal with Farida Waziri. The deal was that Sahara Reporters would not attack EFCC or Farida Waziri again if EFCC would detain Emeka in Nigeria until he would lose his defamation case against Sowore. Ambassador Adefuye used the might and superior connection within the Nigerian government to cement the deal between Sowore and EFCC. Emeka was detained for 3 months in 2011 by the EFCC and Sowore escaped from the lawsuit Emeka filed against him in America.
Sowore continued to use Sahara Reporters to report that Emeka Ugwuonye was disbarred and a rogue in America, which was false. He later started reporting that Emeka was disbarred in Nigeria, as far back as 2016, which was false and remains false (Emeka's case against the Nigerian Bar is still pending at the Supreme Court but Sahara Reporters already decided the case before it was filed).
Emeka Ugwuonye's illustrious legal career was derailed and the man nearly destroyed because many people began to believe these lies by Sahara Reporters and even joined in spreading them.
Sowore made a career in taking money from people to destroy their enemies. He took two million dollars from enemies of President Jonathan to destroy Jonathan. Ironically, Jonathan never arrested him. Sowore is a dangerous and manipulative person. He wanted to be famous. He tried to exploit the cases of IPOB and El-Zakzaky for cheap fame. But it stuck in his throat. There is no easy route to real fame.
Because of years of destructive malicious attacks he waged against Emeka Ugwuonye it was possible for Emeka, one of the best lawyers Nigeria ever produced on the international scene, to be detained on trumped up charges and people are not worried. Sahara Reporters' malicious and destructive attacks on Emeka Ugwuonye progressively weakened Emeka and turned a lion into the lamb that could be easily abused and detained for months in prison without question.
And as an irony of fate, Sowore will be meeting Emeka Ugwuonye in that prison as early as this week or next. It is the height of hypocrisy for anyone to cry for Sowore. Indeed, Nigerian government has been too nice to him.
As for Rambo, we laughed the day Sowore was arrested. We knew he would get there because you cannot deceive people all the time. We also understand the Nigerian twisted legal system very well. That was why we have been very accurate in analyzing the development of the case. As that legal system was used against Emeka Ugwuonye with active instigation from Sowore through Sahara Reporters, Sowore rejoiced and even boasted of how he was able to dim the bright stars of Emeka Ugwuonye.
Emeka has adapted to the harsh conditions of Nigerian society. From the Ivy League of Harvard Law School to the low dust of the Nigerian enclave. Let Sowore start his own adaptation. From jungle justice of Sahara Reporters to jungle justice of DSS. We understand what will happen to Sowore. Even if he is granted bail, he will not be allowed to leave Nigeria. And if he remains in Nigeria, Sahara Reporters will not be effective tool for blackmail. Or he will be rearrested for every blackmail report done through Sahara Reporters. They already made it sufficiently clear that they can charge him for any false publication on Sahara Reporters for "insulting the president or for insulting DSS". So funny! Sahara Reporters will be out of business if it cannot insult. And if he escapes from Nigeria while on bail, he will perish his political ambition in Nigeria. He underestimated the DSS guys. Guy man die, guy man burry am!
Just relax and watch. Sowore's only option is to beg extensively and make a deal. First, as he did with EFCC under Farida Waziri, let him pledge never to criticize Nigerian government again and to use Sahara Reporters as mouthpiece for the government. We heard he has already started begging. He has a lot of it to do. And if you were the government, will you make a deal with Sowore? No! He will betray you once you stop paying him.
How Gen. John Agim Agim made a fool of himself when he boasted that Nigerian army recruitment process involves the death of up to 25% of the applicants.
The report is as follows:
"Gen. John Agim Agim (rtd), a former spokesman of the Defence Headquarters, has revealed that during each recruitment exercise, 15-25% of successful applicants are expected to die during training.
This statement was carried by many Nigerian news blogs. Many people who read this on the social media have reacted angrily, calling Gen. Agim a fool and idiot for obvious reasons.
Interesting development in Southern Africa
Yesterday, there was a huge protest in South Africa's largest city. In the protest, thousands of South Africans asked Nigeria and the world to forgive them for the xenophobic violence.
Also yesterday, at the funeral of President Mugabe, the crowd booed at the South African President when he came to make his speech. The President repeatedly apologized for the violence in South Africa, saying he was ashamed of it.
The events of the past two weeks have placed South Africa in a terrible state, setting their country's development 25 years behind. It will take many peace protests and apologies from the President to make any difference.
About Mother-in-laws: Let’s clarify a post I made recently
It doesn't matter what you think, a mother-in-law (MIL) CANNOT take over the running of the home of her son while the son's wife is there. The MIL must maintain the restrained presence of a special guest of honor.
I had to make this clarification because I could read all manner of comments from men suggesting that their mothers are the madams of their houses, which showed they totally misunderstood my post. Your mother cannot be the lady of your house, even if you're single. Do you sleep with your mum? Does she sleep in your bedroom? It is wrong to allow your mother to push your wife aside and begin to run your home.
Indeed, when I saw everybody liking my post I became concerned. Anytime I see too many people agreeing with me, I feel disturbed.
If you are not ready to marry, don't marry. But if you marry, accept the meaning and implication of your marriage. If your mother is still the woman in your life, you cannot say you're married or that you're a grown adult.
Not just coming over and taking over your home, your mother is not the woman with final say on what happens in your house. She can't be. Even those of you that claim to be Christians don't understand the Bible. "Respect and honor your parents" does not mean your mother can shove your wife aside.
I read some of the men threatening to throw the wife out of the house if she asks the mother to leave. I pity them because they already condemned themselves to marrying a poor uneducated and unemployed wife whom they can enslave. Otherwise, if they marry their equal, how can they throw them out. Instead, they will be leaving with their mothers.
Just respect and honor your parents, don't bring your mother to push your wife away. And please don't come to DPA and threaten to throw your wife out. We are not comfortable with that. That means that you're using our platform to propagate an idea we condemn. We won't accept that.
If you are a mother and you're visiting your son and his wife, and the wife asks when you are living, that is after you have stayed 6 months, you should not get offended. It is a legitimate question. It may not be diplomatic for her to ask you in such a direct manner. But you can't get offended.
No home or family can be peaceful or prosperous if you do not accord every member the respect and honor due to him or her. Respect and honor your parents.
A woman has the right to ask her mother-in-law to leave her house
I was forced to make this post after I read in the forum the story of one woman, which stated as follows:
"I have been married to my husband for six years but for three years now,am now regretting my marriage. It all started the day I politely asked my mother-in-law with a clear conscience when she would be going back to the village when she had already stayed six months in what she made us believe was only a visit at the beginning. She became angry and said I had no right to question her when to come and go from her son's house,that that is how I made her son forget her and his siblings since we got married with a lot of other abuses. Since then,she is the one now cooking for her son,washing his clothes and discussing office issues with him when he comes back from work. My husband no longer has time for me and our two children(a boy and girl) as he practically spends every bit of his free time with his mum. It has been like this for three years now and am no longer finding it funny and my mother-in-law is still not showing any sign of leaving yet and my husband and I never had planned of her coming to live with us..."
If you can control the rush of emotions, you will easily agree with me that a woman has right to tell her mother-in-law to leave her marital home. We can do that to our own parents if they become a pain. Yeah! We can all say: "Mama, prepare to go home. You have stayed too long with us'. The woman can do it to her own mother who has overstayed. The man can do it to his own mother who has overstayed. In fact, the man can do it to his mother-in-law who has overstayed, hopefully not in a rude or direct manner. Now, tell me why the woman cannot do it to her mother-in-law.
There are only two reasons why it is hard for a woman to do it to her mother-in-law. The first reason is cultural. The Nigerian culture (which is not an excuse) believes that the wife is also somehow a visitor, that the house belongs to the man more than it belongs to the woman. Therefore, it seems odd for one visitor to order another visitor out. Consistent with that culture, they think that the man's mother is closer to the man than his wife is to him. This leads to the further fallacy of believing that the house belongs more to the husband's mother than to the wife.
But this is not the law. The wife has greater rights in the house than the mother-in-law. The wife is not a visitor, but the mother-in-law is a visitor. Let's just get one thing right: The man and his wife have equal rights in the house. Others derive their rights from the husband and wife jointly. So, your wife can ask your mother to leave.
The second reason is economic. If the wife is unemployed and has no income of her own, she is practically a slave. She will not be able to exercise her right to ask her mother-in-law to leave. She will be too scared to do so because she herself is a dependent.
We must deal with the two issues. First, nobody forces you to marry. So, as you choose a wife, understand that she has the right to ask your mother to leave. So, look for a woman so kind she won't throw your mother into the rain. And please explain to your mother in very clear terms like this:
"Dear Mama, I love you so much. I appreciate the fact that you bore me in your womb for 9 months and nourished me with your breast milk. You gave me life and cared for me. In fact, without you, I will not exist. I owe my life to you. But, Mama, as you know, there was a time I could not survive without your breast milk, but there came a time when I had to leave your breast milk in order to continue to survive. Likewise, time has come for me to find a wife. And once I find my wife, my future and my life will now depend on her just as my life depended on you when I was young. So, Mama, my wife, not you, will be responsible to run my life henceforth".
Tell your mother this in your native language. If your mother understands this, she will not come to try to run your home in place of your wife.
And please build or rent a separate home for your parents and your parents-in-law. Make sure the home of your parents and that of your parents-in-law are comfortable and they enjoy the same standard of living. Once I've done that, they must allow my wife to run our own home without their interference.
On the economic angle, don't get married without being employed. Having your own source of income is more important than getting married. The worst thing you can do to yourself is to try to depend on your husband's income. And those women who depend on their husband's income will grow old to depend on their son's income. They are the ones likely to hijack the home of their daughter-in-law.
I end by saying this: You do have the legal right to throw your mother-in-law out. But if you really love your husband, you must respect the woman that breast-fed him. She is actually the woman you took over from in the business of caring for that man. A man needs to depend on a woman throughout his life. When he was young, that woman was his mother and when he is grown up, that woman is his wife. So, the two women should be friends and should respect each other. What should bind them together is the fact that they dedicated their lives to caring for the same man at different stages in his life.
If you treat your mother-in-law right, she may give you some information about your husband that will help you know how to run your home better. If you need advice on how to manage your husband better, do not go to your mother because your mother doesn't know your husband better than you do. The person you go to is your mother-in-law. She knows how she managed the monster you just discovered in your husband. For you, the bad things you just discovered about your husband came as a surprise. But to your mother-in-law, that is his nature. So, befriend your mother-in-law and you will enjoy your marriage.
The evil that DPA is fighting: The following article was published in Nigeria’s lawyers group by OK oh Sheriff
The story told in that piece is the greatest evil DPA is fighting against. And that is exactly what is happening to Emeka Ugwuonye today. He fought the police and tried to expose evidence of the police killing innocent people. The Nigerian police framed him up for murder and armed robbery, and a collusive and inept judiciary remanded him in prison custody.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
By OK oh Sheriff E. E.
My Lord Chief Justice of Nigeria,
"Are you aware that today in Nigeria SARS/Police can pick you up, demand money from you and if you refuse, you can be charged for "armed robbery or Kidnapping or both"?
Guess what? The magistrate or judge (depending on the jurisdiction) is going to remand you in prison and send your file to the DPP for advice. That means you would be kept off the street despite your innocence.
That advice takes 2-12 months, and could run into years.
You may not get how bad things have become. Let me explain.
If a Magistrate/judge grants you bail for a bailable offence, in most cases you are asked to produce 2 sureties who are responsible, gainfully employed and reside within the court's jurisdiction.
Your sureties are going to produce all manner of documents, ranging from letter of employment, TCC, letter of recommendation from your lawyer and their employers, utility bills, rent receipts etc.
The extortion process kicks in;
You know these court clerks? They are not going to process anything until you drop from 3-10k. Your sureties are going to be interviewed by the magistrate. If they fail, you start the process again.
If they scale through, the prosecutor is supposed to verify their home address/place of work. My dear, you are going to bribe the prosecutor with 20-50k to do their jobs! It might be higher at the Federal High Court! If you refuse, LOL.
Remember, you have been moved to prison while waiting for your bail to be perfected
When they have successfully "verified" your sureties the magistrate is going to sign your release warrant. Court clerks would also extort an additional 2k to 10k to move the file to the magistrate and photocopy your release warrant
You think your release warrant is signed & you are free?
Prison officials are going to ask you for 10-20k to Fast-track the release.
You know the funny part, all these criminals (Police, Prosecutor, Prison officials, court clerks/registrars and etcetera all believe that politicians are our problems. They also do morning devotion and pray 5 times daily.
My Lord, please let the Administration of Criminal Justice Monitoring and Enforcement Committee under your office supervise the Courts nationwide for a swifter and equitable administration of criminal justice in Nigeria.
Call the Police and the Attorney Generals in Nigeria to order very quickly. We have too many innocent Nigerians in Prison.
Fait justicia et that coleum, let justice be done, even if the heavens falls, and if justice is done, the heavens in deed would be happier with Nigeria.
The ineptitude of South African political leadership now too apparent
With the news that Tanzanian Airline has suspended its flights to South Africa on account of the xenophobic violence, the hand of the clock of evil is coming full circle on South Africa. What a disaster and what a failure! The ANC leadership is full of incompetent and heavily corrupt politicians who cannot see beyond their noses.
How could South African leaders so ineptly allow their country to be ruined with such blatant scapegoating of African immigrants? Since the end of Apartheid, it has been one blunder after the other. The early years were cushioned by the immense goodwill of Nelson Mandela. But apart from that, there were signs that the South African black politicians of the ANC are mediocre.
Thabo Mbeki blundered himself to the point of denying the existence of HIV, when the disease was killing his citizens in their millions. Then came Jacob Zuma, a corrupt drunk, who ended up being booted out of office. Cyril Ramaphosa who replaced Zuma turns out as incompetent coward who could not take responsibility for such monumental disaster as xenophobia!
When will they get it right? Do we need special reform that will ensure that the white South African politicians only will occupy certain portfolios in the executive council such as Foreign Affairs, Police and Justice?