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  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/

The Nigerian police continue to deny the existence of Abattoir. The pictures and even videos exist. COMPARISON BETWEEN ABATTOIR AND LIBYAN MIGRANT/SLAVE... Read More

It is really unfortunate that DSS worked itself into a very tight and awkward corner ever. All along, DSS was operating in apparent compliance with Nigerian substantive laws and procedures that were heavily tilted in favor of DSS and against personal liberty. And to the extent that they appeared to work within those legal rules, it was difficult to blame DSS, as they did not make the laws. 

But all that changed few hours after Justice Taiwo granted bail to Sowore. He ought to have been released once the terns and conditions set by the court were met. That was what DSS needed to maintain the appearance that it acted within the law. Having failed to maintain that appearance of compliance with law, DSS has come under increasing criticism, and rightly so. At the same time, Sowore appears more like a victim of state-sponsored persecution, and rightly so, too.

The story now is how DSS failed to comply with  court order. That takes away any merits in their case against Sowore. Many knowledgeable people are now asking why such blunders by DSS. Why not arraign Sowore before the expiration of the 45 days granted to them to detain him? Alternatively, why didn't they apply for two weeks extension of the 45 days, which would easily have been granted to them? Alternatively, why not release him and arraign him when you are ready since his lawyer has undertaken to produce him for arraignment? Any of these would have been better than the option DSS have chose to follow. It is believed that some people within the DSS deliberately screwed up their strategy. 

Anyway, we believe that DSS is just trying to get a date in court to arraign Sowore. But they were never to play that game and with everyday that passes without them either arraigning Sowore or releasing him, they run out of any moral maneuverable room left. We believe that DSS still won't release him. They want to keep him till he is arraigned. But if DSS don't arraign Sowore today, Friday, September 27, and do not release him either, then DSS has lost the game.

Our best guess is that Sowore will be arraigned today and be remanded in prison today. We don't foresee any alternative to this. Our analysis of the history and psychology of DSS leaders leads us to believe that Sowore's lawyer's decision to initiate a contempt proceedings against DSS will push them into a fierce resistance up to the point of thumbing their noses at the courts. Though that will be unfortunate, that is a reality suggested by a close study of the history of DSS. 

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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.

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.

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!