Monday, March 30, 2020
Saturday, March 7, 2020
RADICALAGENDA GAINS WIDER ECHO AS OGUNLANA SPEAKS AT NBA OSOGBO MARCH MEETING, MEETS LAWYERS AT ILESA
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| Ogunlana at NBA Osogbo Branch meeting |
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| Adesina Ogunlana |
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media and Publicity of RadicalBar2020, Mr. Ogunlana's speech reinforcing his RadicalAgenda and promise to lead the Nigerian Bar Association to struggle against impunity.
Commentator after commentator on his inspiring speech restated his antecedents as Publisher of the holds-no-barred anti-judicial corruption magazine, Squib and the battles fought by lawyers under his leadership of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association .
In a related development, Mr. Ogunlana met with lawyers, who are members of the Ilesa Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association and Chairman of Ilesa Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Femi Fafowora.
The RadicalAgenda message waxes stronger as the race to the presidential elections heat up
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| Dosu Babatunde, Seun Ajoba, Ogunlana, Jungle Sokoya, Ayo Ademiluyi @Ilesa High Court |
A member of the Osogbo Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association making an enthusiastic speech about the antecedents of Mr. Ogunlana as Publisher of the anti-judicial corruption. Magazine, Squib.
Ayo Ademiluyi, Secretary, RAMINBA, Mr. Ogunlana and Mr. Abraham Imeosili, RAMINBA member in Osogbo, Osun State capital
Mr. Dosu Babatunde, Mr. Seun Ajoba, both former Chairmen of NBA Ilesa, Mr. Ogunlana, Mr. Jungle Sookoya and Mr. Ayo Ademiluyi, Secretary, RAMINBA at High Court, Ilesa
OGUNLANA, RAMINBA GRACE NBA BADAGRY BRANCH IN RADICAL STYLE
Ogunlana Adesina Ademola, Chairman of the Radical
Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and presidential aspirant in
the forthcoming 2020 national elections of the
Nigerian Bar
Association graced the March 2020 Monthly Branch Meeting on
Monday, 2nd March, 2020.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media and Strategy of #RadicalBar2020, Mr. Ogunlana took to his popular Facebook wall and narrated thus:
"The RADICAL AGENDA MOVEMENT IN THE NBA (RAMINBA) train landed to an exceptionally warm reception at the NBA Badagry BRANCH yesterday ,3/3/2020. Interestingly we arrived the meeting of the HERITAGE BRANCH at less than half the nick of time ......she was closing with the closing prayer when we stepped in .
Grace stepped in with us as we found favour with the leadership of the Branch to call the already concluded meeting to order for us to have community interaction with this very important Branch .
Our delivery , more Demosthenesian than Ciceroan caught fire with the audience who without prodding exploded into an outburst of Solidarity renditiion at the end of our speech . The highlights of our communication include the sayings:
' Gentlemen , Yoruba people say that if you have being applying wisdom to solve a problem,and it is not working , apply a little madness .I am that little madness . Yoruba people also say it is because of the 'bad child' outside , you have the 'bad child' inside . Iam that bad child inside ...'
And the Heritagers welcome the now well known 50-50 RAMINBA proposition with so much joy.
Several meetings after meetings after meetings happened thereafter , while the final one ended at a waterfront resort where we were entertained to a meal of Appran and Obokun fish stew and ewedu . I was the butt of jokes for inability to complete the downing of a single bottle of lager !
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE WONDERFUL TIME TOGETHER , DEAR HERITAGERS"
The #RadicalAgenda continues to wax stronger and stronger by every dawning day
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| Addressing NBA Badagry March 2020 Branch Meeting |
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media and Strategy of #RadicalBar2020, Mr. Ogunlana took to his popular Facebook wall and narrated thus:
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| Ogunlana with other members |
"The RADICAL AGENDA MOVEMENT IN THE NBA (RAMINBA) train landed to an exceptionally warm reception at the NBA Badagry BRANCH yesterday ,3/3/2020. Interestingly we arrived the meeting of the HERITAGE BRANCH at less than half the nick of time ......she was closing with the closing prayer when we stepped in .
Grace stepped in with us as we found favour with the leadership of the Branch to call the already concluded meeting to order for us to have community interaction with this very important Branch .
Our delivery , more Demosthenesian than Ciceroan caught fire with the audience who without prodding exploded into an outburst of Solidarity renditiion at the end of our speech . The highlights of our communication include the sayings:
' Gentlemen , Yoruba people say that if you have being applying wisdom to solve a problem,and it is not working , apply a little madness .I am that little madness . Yoruba people also say it is because of the 'bad child' outside , you have the 'bad child' inside . Iam that bad child inside ...'
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| Ogunlana wth members of NBA Badagry Branch |
And the Heritagers welcome the now well known 50-50 RAMINBA proposition with so much joy.
Several meetings after meetings after meetings happened thereafter , while the final one ended at a waterfront resort where we were entertained to a meal of Appran and Obokun fish stew and ewedu . I was the butt of jokes for inability to complete the downing of a single bottle of lager !
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| Ogunlana with Chigbu Okafor, Chair, NBA Badagry |
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE WONDERFUL TIME TOGETHER , DEAR HERITAGERS"
The #RadicalAgenda continues to wax stronger and stronger by every dawning day
OGUNLANA IN ABUJA FOR RAMINBA EXPLORATORY MEETING
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of #RadicalBar2020, Mr. Ogunlana took to his popular Facebook wall to narrate his trip with a post entitled
"THERE IS HOPE FOR OUR COUNTRY AND FOR OUR PROFESSION ......AN APPRECIATION TO THE YOUNG BLOOD OF RADICAL AGENDA MOVEMENT IN THE NBA (RAMINBA .)".
Mr. Ogunlana reported that the meeting was a great success and extolled the organiser , who was a much younger colleague he had known and worked with in his days at the Tiger Bar .
He
extolled the radical young lawyers that inspired the #RadicalAgenda in the first place and have been its driving force.
He posted
"(The).... young , ardent believers ...(of the #RadicalAgenda) continued with their urgings , proddings more like and here we are today. They believe , and rightly so that ' old things should pass away 'in the NBA and that I represent the best possible chance of getting the badly needed change in our Association .
None of these my 'kid' god fathers were induced in any way to act this way , rather they are the inducers ! For silver , gold , cash and gifts , I have none to give. Only to God be the glory ! Success is ours !
Thank you all my dear younger ones for your kindness , respect , encouragement and very critical support . Let me assure you once again - WE GO FOR IT TOGETHER , WE GET IT TOGETHER AND WE RUN IT TOGETHER ! It is our joint project."
RE: RAMINBA'S CALL FOR RESIGNATION OF CHIEF WOLE OLANIPEKUN SAN FROM NBA BOT
The Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association on Thursday,
27th February, 2020 issued two separate releases calling for the resignation of
Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN from the Trusteeship of the Nigerian Bar Association
. The call was unneccessary as the learned silk is not a member, presently, of
the elite corps (BOARD OF TRUSTEES) . It is a mistake , regrettable one
at that and the Radical Agenda Movement In the Nigerian Bar
Association TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY.
It amounts to infamy for the counsel involved who are both long time silks to bring up such application for review of the judgement of the apex court in the Bayelsa Gubernatorial Election Dispute .The Court accused both of them of taking action calculated to descreate the court , a very serious charge indeed in our view .
All those who have criticised us for demanding that Olanipekun resigns from a body he does not belong to , are in order . Those who are abusing on the same score are also in order . We welcome their scurrilious language, their guttersnipe , those are the hall marks of their self vaunted learning and scholarship . We congratulate them .We are used to the vitriols of those who for all shades of bigotry and self- capture, deify fallible mortals and turn them to infallible tin gods and are very uncomfortable when their gods are reproached, no matter how justifiable .
We here at RAMINBA are not inclined to be crowd- swayed but to do our utmost to stand by our considered convictions and the Truth as we sincerely see it .....EVEN IF WE ARE STANDING ALONE .
Thank You.
OGUNLANA ADESINA ADEMOLA ESQ.
Chairman
AYODELE ADEMILUYI ESQ.
Secretary
It amounts to infamy for the counsel involved who are both long time silks to bring up such application for review of the judgement of the apex court in the Bayelsa Gubernatorial Election Dispute .The Court accused both of them of taking action calculated to descreate the court , a very serious charge indeed in our view .
All those who have criticised us for demanding that Olanipekun resigns from a body he does not belong to , are in order . Those who are abusing on the same score are also in order . We welcome their scurrilious language, their guttersnipe , those are the hall marks of their self vaunted learning and scholarship . We congratulate them .We are used to the vitriols of those who for all shades of bigotry and self- capture, deify fallible mortals and turn them to infallible tin gods and are very uncomfortable when their gods are reproached, no matter how justifiable .
We here at RAMINBA are not inclined to be crowd- swayed but to do our utmost to stand by our considered convictions and the Truth as we sincerely see it .....EVEN IF WE ARE STANDING ALONE .
Thank You.
OGUNLANA ADESINA ADEMOLA ESQ.
Chairman
AYODELE ADEMILUYI ESQ.
Secretary
OGUNLANA, RAMINBA'S EXPOSITORY MESSAGE TO ALL NIGERIAN LAWYERS (1)
Ogunlana Adesina Ademola, the Chairman of the
Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and presidential
aspirant in the forthcoming 2020 national elections of the Nigerian Bar
Association has taken to his Facebook wall to write series of expository
messages to the members of the Nigerian Bar Association.
This was revealed in a statement issued by Ayo
Ademiluyi, Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of #RadicalBar2020.
Mr. Ogunlana commented on his Facebook wall thus:
"HOW TRULY LEARNED ARE WE?
One fond ,popular belief of legal practitioners at least in Nigeria is their class superiority . We proudly assert our profession as ' NOBLE' and say no other set of persons, no matter their education or discipline are LEARNED . We describe our offices as ' CHAMBERS', the courts as ' TEMPLES, the logo of our job is a ' GODDESS', our part of the court room is named the BAR , the part for the Judges is the 'BENCH and the judges are reverred as LORDS. Instances of the distinctions attached to the legal profession are many jndeed . Not only do we commonly consider ourselves as top breed of class , character and knowledge , we expect , even demand of nonlawyers to see us as such and give us due regard accordingly .
However , one sometimes wonders whether our professional class claim to elevated pedigree and cerebral distinction are not in the main self flattery and deceit ? By our values, conduct , speeches and reflections are we really any much better and greater than the common run of the society?. For example just consider how we approach ELECTIONS in the association of lawyers
Most of those contesting for high offices behave very much like 'outside' politicians, promising and promoting to the electorate what they have no time , capacity, commitment to deliver . Essentially these characters TELL and SELL , fat , round , humungous LIES to the electorate to gain the positiobs of their covet . I cant see what is consistent with claims of NOBILITY , HONOR , DECENCY in that sort of behaviour on the part of DISTINGUISHED members of the NOBLE profession, or can you ?
Now it is one thing to tell a lie deliberately with intention to deceive and mislead another person , it is another for the scheme to jell. For a fact , it is difficult to take in a learned person and lead such by the nose , but the history of elections in the association of noble and learned persons in Nigeria at least since 1998 is that the electorate therein even though very learned , deeply knowlegeable and oracularly persicacious, as always pathologically claimed ,are REGULARLY, ,, SERIALLY , EASILY , PREDICTABLY , THOROUGHLY fooled by lying candidates . In fact the more fantatic the spins , yarns , fables etc , the more prostrate the LEARNED ELECTORATE fall 'yakata' for the the fib flingers .
You may wish to enquire into the ways and means by ths which the learned SMART ALECS snag the LEARNED GULLIBLES .
Interestingly , the stratagem is neither arcane not complicated , but rather simple basic and even down right primitive ! History has it that many African Monarchs in the 18th and 19th centuries gave away their lands and sold their peoples to slavery to European merchants and empire builders in exchange for tawdry gifts like beads , gin, mirrors etc . A similar despoilation promoted by crass , myopic and shameful greed and self shortchanging apetitiveness afflicts the NBA biennially .
Candidates fling ' bananas ' as it were at the electorate as if they were but monkeys and the learned monkeys rush at the bananas and and make banana givers their leaders who now lead them to blind alleys of little or no performance
The 'bananas' here are the emergency gifts of cash , meals, hotel accomodation , souvenirs , donations to Branches , Sections, Lawyers Fora , lawyers wears and texts as well as gracing of several programmes and events , meaningful and meaningless ones, throwing of parties , holding of hang outs and sit ins . These are the sort of things that have been influencing our learned electorate , year in , year out, in their choice of leaders.Clearly that is a solidly unwise way of choosing leaders and so little wonder for the perennial disappontment at the end of the day with the performance of leaders chosen by that method .
Learned gentlemen of the noble profession for how long shall we continue to allow ourselves to be used and ultimately shortchanged ? Look at our direction, at least this once , the direction of the RADICAL AGENDA , the AGENDA that is not deceiving, misleading and seducing you with '"ephemeralities' and dubious , spurious gifts Try us, taste us and see the goodness of the Lord !"
This was revealed in a statement issued by Ayo
Ademiluyi, Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of #RadicalBar2020.
Mr. Ogunlana commented on his Facebook wall thus:
"HOW TRULY LEARNED ARE WE?
One fond ,popular belief of legal practitioners at least in Nigeria is their class superiority . We proudly assert our profession as ' NOBLE' and say no other set of persons, no matter their education or discipline are LEARNED . We describe our offices as ' CHAMBERS', the courts as ' TEMPLES, the logo of our job is a ' GODDESS', our part of the court room is named the BAR , the part for the Judges is the 'BENCH and the judges are reverred as LORDS. Instances of the distinctions attached to the legal profession are many jndeed . Not only do we commonly consider ourselves as top breed of class , character and knowledge , we expect , even demand of nonlawyers to see us as such and give us due regard accordingly .
However , one sometimes wonders whether our professional class claim to elevated pedigree and cerebral distinction are not in the main self flattery and deceit ? By our values, conduct , speeches and reflections are we really any much better and greater than the common run of the society?. For example just consider how we approach ELECTIONS in the association of lawyers
Most of those contesting for high offices behave very much like 'outside' politicians, promising and promoting to the electorate what they have no time , capacity, commitment to deliver . Essentially these characters TELL and SELL , fat , round , humungous LIES to the electorate to gain the positiobs of their covet . I cant see what is consistent with claims of NOBILITY , HONOR , DECENCY in that sort of behaviour on the part of DISTINGUISHED members of the NOBLE profession, or can you ?
Now it is one thing to tell a lie deliberately with intention to deceive and mislead another person , it is another for the scheme to jell. For a fact , it is difficult to take in a learned person and lead such by the nose , but the history of elections in the association of noble and learned persons in Nigeria at least since 1998 is that the electorate therein even though very learned , deeply knowlegeable and oracularly persicacious, as always pathologically claimed ,are REGULARLY, ,, SERIALLY , EASILY , PREDICTABLY , THOROUGHLY fooled by lying candidates . In fact the more fantatic the spins , yarns , fables etc , the more prostrate the LEARNED ELECTORATE fall 'yakata' for the the fib flingers .
You may wish to enquire into the ways and means by ths which the learned SMART ALECS snag the LEARNED GULLIBLES .
Interestingly , the stratagem is neither arcane not complicated , but rather simple basic and even down right primitive ! History has it that many African Monarchs in the 18th and 19th centuries gave away their lands and sold their peoples to slavery to European merchants and empire builders in exchange for tawdry gifts like beads , gin, mirrors etc . A similar despoilation promoted by crass , myopic and shameful greed and self shortchanging apetitiveness afflicts the NBA biennially .
Candidates fling ' bananas ' as it were at the electorate as if they were but monkeys and the learned monkeys rush at the bananas and and make banana givers their leaders who now lead them to blind alleys of little or no performance
The 'bananas' here are the emergency gifts of cash , meals, hotel accomodation , souvenirs , donations to Branches , Sections, Lawyers Fora , lawyers wears and texts as well as gracing of several programmes and events , meaningful and meaningless ones, throwing of parties , holding of hang outs and sit ins . These are the sort of things that have been influencing our learned electorate , year in , year out, in their choice of leaders.Clearly that is a solidly unwise way of choosing leaders and so little wonder for the perennial disappontment at the end of the day with the performance of leaders chosen by that method .
Learned gentlemen of the noble profession for how long shall we continue to allow ourselves to be used and ultimately shortchanged ? Look at our direction, at least this once , the direction of the RADICAL AGENDA , the AGENDA that is not deceiving, misleading and seducing you with '"ephemeralities' and dubious , spurious gifts Try us, taste us and see the goodness of the Lord !"
OGUNLANA WELCOMES RELEASE OF AGBA JALINGO, WANTS TRUMPED-UP CHARGES AGAINST PROFESSOR MAURICE FANGNON DROPPED
Ogunlana Adesina Ademola , the Chairman of the
Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and presidential
aspirant in the forthcoming 2020 national elections of the Nigerian Bar
Association has welcomed the release of Agba Jalingo from the Calabar
Correctional Centre.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of #RadicalBar2020, Mr. Ogunlana viewed the release as a product of relentless struggle.
In a related development, Mr. Ogunlana demands the trumped-up charges filed by the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department , Panti, Yaba against Professor Maurice Fangnon be withdrawn immediately.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of #RadicalBar2020, Mr. Ogunlana viewed the release as a product of relentless struggle.
In a related development, Mr. Ogunlana demands the trumped-up charges filed by the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department , Panti, Yaba against Professor Maurice Fangnon be withdrawn immediately.
RAMINBA REPLIES STEVE ABAR ON OGUNLANA 'S TRIAL AND PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATION
The Radical Agenda Movement in the
Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) has replied to a post made by Steve
Abar, former 2nd and 1st Vice President of the Nigerian Bar
Association on the ongoing trial of the presidential aspirant running on its
platform, Mr. Ogunlana Adesina Ademola by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission. I
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of the Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association, the organisation would ordinarily restrain from making commentary on the ongoing trial based on the sub judice principle, but it has found it important based on the issues raised in the said Steve Abar's post to comment on the political implicationss thereof as the NBA presidential race heats up.
On 12th day of February, 2020, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana took to his popular Facebook wall , where he posted thus:
"OUR FRIENDS IN POLITICS
In the course of my trajectory towards the Presidency of the Nigerian Bar Association , one of the more amusing mounds of mud thrown at me is the issue of my EFCC case .Many of the mud throwers throw their mud as if they were the proverbial 'carpenters' of Nigerian legal folk lore .
As far as these legal juggernauts are concerned , going by their stance, arraignment and trial are tantamount to CONVICTION. Thus as far as these brilliant legal minds are concerned , I am not a fit and proper person to aspire to any position in the NBA, at least for now one of our denouncers , Steve Abar, Esq., former 2nd and 1st Vice NBA President, who rightly claimed that he had stood chest to chest with the Tigers in struggles afore, (though did not mention any one instance when he was ever a 'struggle mate' with his Ikeja based preferred candidate ) asserted in a response to a post that ' his(Ogunlana)'s EFCC case will weigh him down ' .
The question is how would arraignment and trial have such effect on any unprejudiced truly trained and astute minds schooled in the elevated pedagogies of the presumption of innocence doctrines . Shouldn't even the benefit of the doubt be made to weigh more in favour of the accused in the minds of the scruplously fair minded legal mind particularly where such a mind is far off from the vortex of political conflict and clash of interests leading to judicial trial . You would have thought that a quality fellow trencher would not quickly toss away belief for unbelief , search diligently for the truth of accusations before arriving at a negative conclusion .
Another well known non fancier is also, interestingly, named STEVE ;Steve Uchenna Nwankwo Esq who rejoices in the cadescence of a luminous sobriquet of STEVE SUN . That worthy had noted fillipantly somewhere recently whilst trying to englitter the plumage of his preferred candidate that ' we dont even know how his EFCC case would end ' To us this is nothing but a clever by half , sly dammnation of our aspiration which cannot slow us down . .
Attacks, fair and unfair are common fare in politics , fortunately we here have a stomach of iron that not only digests poisoned meals and rubbish easily without side effects but get nourished spectacularly thereby . Alleged FRIENDS who even without balanced investigations, private engagements and interactions with a mind to finding out the truth as much as possible even with all opportunities of access but find it all too easy to join one's HATERS to nail one on the cross of unproved accusations, are FRIENDS indeed .
May God continue to bless such wonderful friends and reward them with exciting propects of being around in the days of joyous vindication .Such need not roil in mortification when doxologies are rendered unto the Almighty for his great Deliverance , for they shall surely be invited to the theatre of Rejoice !
NB .....this piece was written to mark this day, 12th February 2020 , exactly a year now that the EFCC came to arrest me in my chambers . When this happened local and in house traducers thought it was finished with us and boasted and assured willing ears that I shall end up in jail within months . Their main angst against me is my guts and confidence which they find so galling . We sullied the bullies by refusing to bend like robots to their wishes and tingodism at the NBA IKEJA BAR . They are still galled up because despite their arrows , bullets, blows , yours sincerely , instead of wilting and cringing has become ever so resurgent and reflugent . To whom do we ascribe all this to ? God, God , God . The fish in the picture (attached to the post) was a victim of celebration in the afternoon .I carried its still substantial remains off the battle field , to be seen off in chambers with a chilled lager You understand now ? Bless you my friends and my FRIENDS"
Mr. Steve Abar responded on the thread thus:
"Ademola Ogunlana Adesina , you may find your criminal trial amusing, but regrettably, I do not share your sentiment as I find nothing amusing in a President of the NBA being subjected to the dock on ALLEGATIONS of corruption especially when the trial precedes the aspiration and or eventual assumption of the office. My opinion with the greatest respect, is without prejudice to the presumption of your innocence or even the eventual outcome of the trial you are facing. I must also confess that in holding this view, I do not advert my mind to the quality of the facts alleged in the criminal charge against you and whether they will succeed or otherwise. I am simply deeply worried about the negative public perception of the Association nay the entire legal profession which will be engendered by the prospect of having a second consecutive President of the NBA also being docked, as if the Association is suffering from a dearth of options from which to pick its leadership. This view of your situation which I hold is consistent with the tenacious position I held against Paul Usoro's aspiration during his quest for the presidency of the NBA even though at the material time, the issue of his arraignment was still speculative. Should you be in doubt, you may check my posts both on my wall and on other relevant threads at the material time. I am therefore not in a hurry to do a volte-face simply because this time around you are the person involved and also notwithstanding your irrefutable radical credentials.
My compatriot (I still consider you one), I can bear eloquent testimony to the many instances you and others of the Tiger Branch demonstrated grit and commitment to the cause of the NBA and lawyers. Nevertheless, we are here dealing with a situation where I believe that you are offering yourself for SERVICE to the Bar and NOT TO BE SERVED. If that be the case as I hope it is, the honourable thing for you particularly (given your hitherto known selfless disposition) to do in the overriding general interest and image of the NBA is to temporarily put aside your personal ambition, confront the trial against you and allow its outcome to vindicate you. Thereafter, should the outcome be favourable, you could in the future offer yourself for service again whilst standing on a higher moral pedestal. This is what obtains in civilised climes where the principle of presumption of innocence also enures in favour of accused persons who are in some instances even incumbents. I believe, that you my honourable friend will demonstrate this rare quality that is grossly deficient in our society today by pointing the way to go if we must attain the model future we genuinely desire both for our dear NBA and our Nation Nigeria, not because I PREJUDGE your trial, but because I consider it a greater sacrifice for the general good and image of the NBA.
My friend, an integral attribute of leadership is the the ability to elevate and place the general good over and above personal interest or desire. I am calling on you today to carefully reconsider your decision to run at this inopportune time, particularly so since any of your other gentlemen co - aspirants have made the decision easier for you given their widely acknowledged capabilities.
Finally, I had craved an opportunity for us to have this discourse privately and therefore sincerely regret my slip in bringing it up in response to somebody else's query on another thread which subsequently caught your attention and now elicited your elaborate post. Permit me to state that I do not by any stretch of imagination consider you unfit or not proper to contest for the presidency of the NBA by reason of your on going trial. I am also not your hater. My position is the product of my long held and publicly expressed belief which has found fulfilment in the manifestation of a seemingly gagged NBA under Paul Usoro. I wish you could see it as that and nothing more.
Thank you and kindly ignore the incomplete response I earlier inadvertently posted here and substitute it with this one"
The questions for Mr. Steve Abar are numerous but some are:
1. On what grounds did Mr. Steve Abar advise Mr. Paul Usoro SAN not to run, when he had no criminal matter agaisnt him , prior to his electoral victory at the 2018 polls?
2. Why is he recommending to Mr. Ogunlana to shelve his presidential ambition because of his ongoing trial, his undisclosed grounds of advice with which he advised Mr. Paul Usoro SAN, when he had no criminal matter ?
3. What is the basis of equality of capabilities ascribed to all the candidates to warrant Mr. Ogunlana to withdraw from the NBA presidential race?
It is clear as noonday that Mr. Steve Abar' s response is blurry and an attempt to drive emotions up against the presidential aspiration of Mr. Ogunlana. While on one hand , deferring to the doctrine of presumption of innocence , Mr. Abar wants Mr. Ogunlana to halt his presidential aspiration due to his ongoing trial.
Mr. Abar' s school of thought is that elective offices such as the Office of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association is a deified office that should not be aspired to by individuals , who are facing any form of trial, inspite of the presumption of innocence against them.
Mr. Abar's conclusion that the ongoing trial of Mr. Paul Usoro SAN led to the current gagged NBA leadership is not only presumptuous but amounts to begging the question. If we may ask, what background does Mr. Paul Usoro SAN, the current NBA President have that now got "gagged" when he entered office! The reality is that , with respect to Mr. Paul Usoro SAN, he is simply not an activist! Even at that, the pinnacle of Mr. Paul Usoro SAN' s anti- government action was the declaration of a national boycott, where were persons such as Mr. Steve Abar at that time?
Now to Mr. Steve Abar's assertion that all the four presidential have "equal capabilities " , let us examine the subject matter critically. Mr. Steve Abar's reference of standing shoulders to shoulders with Ikeja Branch, the Tiger Bar, during their innumerous struggles, does this include the involvement of Mr. Dele Adesina SAN? It is on record that the same Dele Adesina SAN , as Chairman of Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (1998-2000) diswoned his members who were protesting the sale of the Nigerian Law School?
Dr. Babatunde Ajibade SAN and Mr. Olumide Akpata , both transactional lawyers has never been known for activism and critical social interventions. They can't even pretend to be so! Where then is the equality of capacities among the four?
These are men who have used their skills to make personal fortunes for themselves and are now eyeing top positions in the Nigerian Bar Association in order to project their image for higher aspirations.
The four presidential aspirants are all Lagos-based lawyers, of both Ikeja and Lagos Branches , the two largest Branches of the Nigerian Bar Association. In 2018, when the then Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State sought to impose an horrendous Lagos State Land Use Charge of 500 percent increment, the reaction of the four aspirants were not the same. While the other three sat on the fence, Ogunlana leading the NBA IKeja , without the support of Mr. Dele Adesina SAN, successfully resisted the imposition of the taxes.
Equally, when the immediate past Chief Judge of Lagos State, Honourable Justice Opeyemi Oke came up with the High Court of Lagos State (Civil Procedure) Rules 2018 with its horrendous filing fees and punitive costs, what is the attitude or reaction of these aspirants to that extortionate scheme of the Chief Judge? While three kept quiet, one spoke against it publicly, carried out demonstrations against it via the Citizens' Rally Against Oppression and eventually sought judicial intervention on it? Who is that? Ogunlana Adesina Ademola. Again, what basis is the equality of capabilities?
The reality is that with the grand onslaught on democratic rights under the current regime, the leadership that is required is a fighting leadership. Mr. Steve Abar's wish of not having a " gagged" leadership can only be fully realised if Mr. Ogunlana is entrusted with the prime leadership of the Bar.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of the Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association, the organisation would ordinarily restrain from making commentary on the ongoing trial based on the sub judice principle, but it has found it important based on the issues raised in the said Steve Abar's post to comment on the political implicationss thereof as the NBA presidential race heats up.
On 12th day of February, 2020, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana took to his popular Facebook wall , where he posted thus:
"OUR FRIENDS IN POLITICS
In the course of my trajectory towards the Presidency of the Nigerian Bar Association , one of the more amusing mounds of mud thrown at me is the issue of my EFCC case .Many of the mud throwers throw their mud as if they were the proverbial 'carpenters' of Nigerian legal folk lore .
As far as these legal juggernauts are concerned , going by their stance, arraignment and trial are tantamount to CONVICTION. Thus as far as these brilliant legal minds are concerned , I am not a fit and proper person to aspire to any position in the NBA, at least for now one of our denouncers , Steve Abar, Esq., former 2nd and 1st Vice NBA President, who rightly claimed that he had stood chest to chest with the Tigers in struggles afore, (though did not mention any one instance when he was ever a 'struggle mate' with his Ikeja based preferred candidate ) asserted in a response to a post that ' his(Ogunlana)'s EFCC case will weigh him down ' .
The question is how would arraignment and trial have such effect on any unprejudiced truly trained and astute minds schooled in the elevated pedagogies of the presumption of innocence doctrines . Shouldn't even the benefit of the doubt be made to weigh more in favour of the accused in the minds of the scruplously fair minded legal mind particularly where such a mind is far off from the vortex of political conflict and clash of interests leading to judicial trial . You would have thought that a quality fellow trencher would not quickly toss away belief for unbelief , search diligently for the truth of accusations before arriving at a negative conclusion .
Another well known non fancier is also, interestingly, named STEVE ;Steve Uchenna Nwankwo Esq who rejoices in the cadescence of a luminous sobriquet of STEVE SUN . That worthy had noted fillipantly somewhere recently whilst trying to englitter the plumage of his preferred candidate that ' we dont even know how his EFCC case would end ' To us this is nothing but a clever by half , sly dammnation of our aspiration which cannot slow us down . .
Attacks, fair and unfair are common fare in politics , fortunately we here have a stomach of iron that not only digests poisoned meals and rubbish easily without side effects but get nourished spectacularly thereby . Alleged FRIENDS who even without balanced investigations, private engagements and interactions with a mind to finding out the truth as much as possible even with all opportunities of access but find it all too easy to join one's HATERS to nail one on the cross of unproved accusations, are FRIENDS indeed .
May God continue to bless such wonderful friends and reward them with exciting propects of being around in the days of joyous vindication .Such need not roil in mortification when doxologies are rendered unto the Almighty for his great Deliverance , for they shall surely be invited to the theatre of Rejoice !
NB .....this piece was written to mark this day, 12th February 2020 , exactly a year now that the EFCC came to arrest me in my chambers . When this happened local and in house traducers thought it was finished with us and boasted and assured willing ears that I shall end up in jail within months . Their main angst against me is my guts and confidence which they find so galling . We sullied the bullies by refusing to bend like robots to their wishes and tingodism at the NBA IKEJA BAR . They are still galled up because despite their arrows , bullets, blows , yours sincerely , instead of wilting and cringing has become ever so resurgent and reflugent . To whom do we ascribe all this to ? God, God , God . The fish in the picture (attached to the post) was a victim of celebration in the afternoon .I carried its still substantial remains off the battle field , to be seen off in chambers with a chilled lager You understand now ? Bless you my friends and my FRIENDS"
Mr. Steve Abar responded on the thread thus:
"Ademola Ogunlana Adesina , you may find your criminal trial amusing, but regrettably, I do not share your sentiment as I find nothing amusing in a President of the NBA being subjected to the dock on ALLEGATIONS of corruption especially when the trial precedes the aspiration and or eventual assumption of the office. My opinion with the greatest respect, is without prejudice to the presumption of your innocence or even the eventual outcome of the trial you are facing. I must also confess that in holding this view, I do not advert my mind to the quality of the facts alleged in the criminal charge against you and whether they will succeed or otherwise. I am simply deeply worried about the negative public perception of the Association nay the entire legal profession which will be engendered by the prospect of having a second consecutive President of the NBA also being docked, as if the Association is suffering from a dearth of options from which to pick its leadership. This view of your situation which I hold is consistent with the tenacious position I held against Paul Usoro's aspiration during his quest for the presidency of the NBA even though at the material time, the issue of his arraignment was still speculative. Should you be in doubt, you may check my posts both on my wall and on other relevant threads at the material time. I am therefore not in a hurry to do a volte-face simply because this time around you are the person involved and also notwithstanding your irrefutable radical credentials.
My compatriot (I still consider you one), I can bear eloquent testimony to the many instances you and others of the Tiger Branch demonstrated grit and commitment to the cause of the NBA and lawyers. Nevertheless, we are here dealing with a situation where I believe that you are offering yourself for SERVICE to the Bar and NOT TO BE SERVED. If that be the case as I hope it is, the honourable thing for you particularly (given your hitherto known selfless disposition) to do in the overriding general interest and image of the NBA is to temporarily put aside your personal ambition, confront the trial against you and allow its outcome to vindicate you. Thereafter, should the outcome be favourable, you could in the future offer yourself for service again whilst standing on a higher moral pedestal. This is what obtains in civilised climes where the principle of presumption of innocence also enures in favour of accused persons who are in some instances even incumbents. I believe, that you my honourable friend will demonstrate this rare quality that is grossly deficient in our society today by pointing the way to go if we must attain the model future we genuinely desire both for our dear NBA and our Nation Nigeria, not because I PREJUDGE your trial, but because I consider it a greater sacrifice for the general good and image of the NBA.
My friend, an integral attribute of leadership is the the ability to elevate and place the general good over and above personal interest or desire. I am calling on you today to carefully reconsider your decision to run at this inopportune time, particularly so since any of your other gentlemen co - aspirants have made the decision easier for you given their widely acknowledged capabilities.
Finally, I had craved an opportunity for us to have this discourse privately and therefore sincerely regret my slip in bringing it up in response to somebody else's query on another thread which subsequently caught your attention and now elicited your elaborate post. Permit me to state that I do not by any stretch of imagination consider you unfit or not proper to contest for the presidency of the NBA by reason of your on going trial. I am also not your hater. My position is the product of my long held and publicly expressed belief which has found fulfilment in the manifestation of a seemingly gagged NBA under Paul Usoro. I wish you could see it as that and nothing more.
Thank you and kindly ignore the incomplete response I earlier inadvertently posted here and substitute it with this one"
The questions for Mr. Steve Abar are numerous but some are:
1. On what grounds did Mr. Steve Abar advise Mr. Paul Usoro SAN not to run, when he had no criminal matter agaisnt him , prior to his electoral victory at the 2018 polls?
2. Why is he recommending to Mr. Ogunlana to shelve his presidential ambition because of his ongoing trial, his undisclosed grounds of advice with which he advised Mr. Paul Usoro SAN, when he had no criminal matter ?
3. What is the basis of equality of capabilities ascribed to all the candidates to warrant Mr. Ogunlana to withdraw from the NBA presidential race?
It is clear as noonday that Mr. Steve Abar' s response is blurry and an attempt to drive emotions up against the presidential aspiration of Mr. Ogunlana. While on one hand , deferring to the doctrine of presumption of innocence , Mr. Abar wants Mr. Ogunlana to halt his presidential aspiration due to his ongoing trial.
Mr. Abar' s school of thought is that elective offices such as the Office of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association is a deified office that should not be aspired to by individuals , who are facing any form of trial, inspite of the presumption of innocence against them.
Mr. Abar's conclusion that the ongoing trial of Mr. Paul Usoro SAN led to the current gagged NBA leadership is not only presumptuous but amounts to begging the question. If we may ask, what background does Mr. Paul Usoro SAN, the current NBA President have that now got "gagged" when he entered office! The reality is that , with respect to Mr. Paul Usoro SAN, he is simply not an activist! Even at that, the pinnacle of Mr. Paul Usoro SAN' s anti- government action was the declaration of a national boycott, where were persons such as Mr. Steve Abar at that time?
Now to Mr. Steve Abar's assertion that all the four presidential have "equal capabilities " , let us examine the subject matter critically. Mr. Steve Abar's reference of standing shoulders to shoulders with Ikeja Branch, the Tiger Bar, during their innumerous struggles, does this include the involvement of Mr. Dele Adesina SAN? It is on record that the same Dele Adesina SAN , as Chairman of Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (1998-2000) diswoned his members who were protesting the sale of the Nigerian Law School?
Dr. Babatunde Ajibade SAN and Mr. Olumide Akpata , both transactional lawyers has never been known for activism and critical social interventions. They can't even pretend to be so! Where then is the equality of capacities among the four?
These are men who have used their skills to make personal fortunes for themselves and are now eyeing top positions in the Nigerian Bar Association in order to project their image for higher aspirations.
The four presidential aspirants are all Lagos-based lawyers, of both Ikeja and Lagos Branches , the two largest Branches of the Nigerian Bar Association. In 2018, when the then Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State sought to impose an horrendous Lagos State Land Use Charge of 500 percent increment, the reaction of the four aspirants were not the same. While the other three sat on the fence, Ogunlana leading the NBA IKeja , without the support of Mr. Dele Adesina SAN, successfully resisted the imposition of the taxes.
Equally, when the immediate past Chief Judge of Lagos State, Honourable Justice Opeyemi Oke came up with the High Court of Lagos State (Civil Procedure) Rules 2018 with its horrendous filing fees and punitive costs, what is the attitude or reaction of these aspirants to that extortionate scheme of the Chief Judge? While three kept quiet, one spoke against it publicly, carried out demonstrations against it via the Citizens' Rally Against Oppression and eventually sought judicial intervention on it? Who is that? Ogunlana Adesina Ademola. Again, what basis is the equality of capabilities?
The reality is that with the grand onslaught on democratic rights under the current regime, the leadership that is required is a fighting leadership. Mr. Steve Abar's wish of not having a " gagged" leadership can only be fully realised if Mr. Ogunlana is entrusted with the prime leadership of the Bar.
Friday, February 7, 2020
OGUNLANA, RAMINBA CONDEMNS POLICE BRUTALITY AND ABUSE OF POWER AGAINST IBANGAH GOODNESS ESQ AND CONDOLES WITH ILORIN BAR OVER OMOLARA ADETUTU ALUKO
Ogunlana Adesina Ademola, the Chairman of Radical Agenda
Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and presidential aspirant in the
forthcoming 2020 national elections of the Nigerian Bar Association has
condemned the police brutality meted out to a female lawyer in.Enugu ,
ENUGU State, Ibangah Goodness Esq. in the conduct of her work as a Legal
Officer with WACOL.
This was made known in a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of RadicalBar2020.
According to
the report credited to Professor Joy Ngozi Ezeilo (OON) on the horrendous brutality meted on a female lawyer, Ibangah Goodness, Esq, she was reportedly beaten to a state of near unconsciousness by men believed to be officers of the Nigerian Police Force in Enugu while in the line of her duty at WACOL, a Non-Governmental Organisation in Enugu.
Mr. Ogunlana expressed the need to reposition the Nigerian Bar Association to engage police brutality holistically by uprooting the basis of it , which is the mis-governance of the country by the forces in power.
In a related development, Mr. Ogunlana has expressed condolences with the Ilorin Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association for the demise of Omolara ADETUTU ALUKO, the Vice-Chairperson of the Branch.
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
OGUNLANA, RAMINBA CONDEMNS ABDUCTION OF ETTAH URI UKAGU ESQ., REITERATES #RADICAL AGENDA AS WAY FORWARD FOR THE BAR
Ogunlana Adesina Ademola , Chairman of the Radical Agenda
Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association has condemned the abduction of yet
another colleague, Mr. Ettah Eri Ukagu, Esq, of the NBA Calabar Branch.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in. the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of Radical Bar 2020,
Mr. Ukagu, Esq. was said to have been abducted on Thursday 30th day of January, 2020 at about 10:00pm in Calabar metropolis by unknown gunmen and his whereabouts is still unknown!
Mr. Ogunlana, who is currently in Jalingo to solidarise with another recently released colleague, Zainab Kishimi is of the view that permanent solution and end to the ugly scenario of kidnapping is by uprooting the social malaise which is behind it- mass unemployment amidst vast resources.
Mr. Ogunlana reiterated his Radical Agenda to the Nigerian Bar Association to lead the Association, if entrusted with the prime leadership of the Bar in its battle against the ruinous forces in power holding down the country by the straits.
RADICAL AGENDA: OGUNLANA HOBNOBS WITH MEMBERS OF YOLA BAR, LANDS IN JALINGO
OGUNLANA, RAMINBA KNOCKS LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT OVER BAN ON OKADA AND MARUWA!
WE OPPOSE BLOODY REPRESSION OF ANTI-BAN PROTESTERS !
WE CALL ON LAGOSIANS BEARING THE BRUNT TO JOIN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE BAN!
We of the Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association strongly condemn the
inhuman, unscientific and insensitive imposition of ban on Okada (motorcycles) and Maruwa (tricycles) by the Lagos State Government.
We are of the view that it is unscientific on the part of the Lagos State Government to impose such a ban at the face of terrible state of the network of inner roads in Lagos State, which the Okada and Maruwa ply on daily basis to relieve huge number of Lagosians of the stress of getting to their destinations.
While we welcome multi-pronged approach to transportation in Lagos State including but not limited to water and rail transportation, this must be done systematically in a way that voluntarily discourages use of Okadas and Maruwas and not by forceful elimination of the Okada and Maruwa drivers.
It is clear that many of the riders of Okada and Maruwa are unemployed graduates who took to the profession at the face of absence of industries and near collapse of the power sector that can engender small businesses.
We are of the view that Okada and Maruwa drivers constitute a reflection of the primitive State that the ruling elite has left production and services in the country. With massive creation of jobs through State investment in industrialization, a vast layer of current Okada and Maruwa drivers will voluntarily abandon the profession and be absorbed into active production.
Therefore, without providing these solutions, the ban is more or less artificial and scratching the problems on the surface. The ban has thrown thousands of drivers who eke daily bread from driving Maruwa and Okada into unemployment.
It is in this wise that the demand for reversal becomes an immediate demand. We condemn the bloody repression of protesters who are rejecting ban, mainly Okada and Maruwa drivers in different parts of Lagos State.
We call for arrest and prosecution of police officers who opened live gunfire on protesters at Ijora in particular.
We are aghast at the argument of Lagos State Government that it has purchased 65 new buses as palliative. It begs reason to assume that a mere 65 new buses will cater for the huge population of Lagosians, battling to get to their destinations daily.
The result is already everywhere to see. Thousands of Lagosians were stranded at different bus stops as the ban on Okada and Maruwa bites harder. They became prey to Shylock bus drivers who doubled their fares to milk hapless Lagosians.
We call on Lagosians, who are bearing the brunt of the ban to join the struggle against the ban. We call for sustained daily mass actions across different parts of Lagos State until the demand of reversal is won.
We call for formation of Action and Defence Committees to coordinate mass actions, defend the barricades and help injured protesters to receive urgent medical care.
We are quick to warn the Lagos State Government to desist from utilising ethnic profiling in alleging that Okada or Maruwa drivers from the Northern part of the country are responsible for insecurity.
We are of the view that the action of Lagos State Government in imposing ban is deepening a social base for terrorism. We have on our hands "Boko Haram", may we not have on our hands a "Boko Lagos".
OGUNLANA ADESINA ADEMOLA
Chairman, Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and presidential aspirant in the 2020 NBA Elections
AYO ADEMILUYI
Secretary, Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association
Sunday, February 2, 2020
RADICAL AGENDA MOVEMENT IN THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION -1st CONFERENCE
Radical Agenda Movement in the NBA
Saturday, February 1, 2020
"WHO CAN INSURE NIGERIA?": OGUNLANA TASKS LAWYERS ON SOCIAL SALVATION AT NBA OTA BRANCH'S JANUARY 2020 MEETING, REITERATES RADICAL AGENDA, CONDEMNS ABDUCTION OF ZAINAB KISHIMI ESQ BY KIDNAPPERS
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| Mr. Adesanya of NBA OTA Branch, Mr.
Ogunlana and Mr. Dare Akande at the NBA OTA Branch |
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| Mr. Ogunlana with a Judge of the High Court of Ogun State |
This was made known in a press statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA).
The meeting which featured a Special Interactive Session on "Insurance for Lawyers" with Lead way Assure brought again to the front burner the safety of lawyers in the exercise of their professional duties.
Mr. Ogunlana, who was recognised by the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association , Ota Branch for the role he played in the Bad Roads Protest organised by the Branch against the terrible state of roads in the Branch.
In his speech, Mr. Ogunlana raised the pertinent question, "If Nigeria is an individual, who can insure Nigeria?", he tasked lawyers to play their role by becoming active agents in the social salvation mission of Nigeria , which is the only way lawyers can ensure their individual safety.
Ogunlana reiterated his #RadicalAgenda to the Nigerian Bar Association to lead the Association to play its historic role as a vanguard of the social rescue mission in Nigeria.
In a related development, Mr. Ogunlana has condemned the abduction of the Vice Chairperson of the Nigerian Bar Association, Jalingo Branch, Zainab Kishimi by kidnappers.
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| Mr. Olumide Akpata,Presidential aspirant with Mr. Ogunlana |
According to media reports, the incident took place at her residence at about 2:00am on Friday the 31st day of January, 2020.
Zainab Kishimi is a Principal State counsel with the Taraba State Ministry of Justice and a committed member of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Taraba State.
Mr. Ogunlana called on both the leadership of her Branch, Jalingo Branch and the national leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association to mount pressure on all respective authorities to secure the release of the counsel.
OGUNLANA GRACES NBA CALABAR BRANCH BAR WEEK'S PUBLIC LECTURE AS #RADICAL AGENDA GAINS WIDER ECHO
Ogunlana Adesina Ademola, Chairman of the Radical Agenda Movement
in the Nigerian Bar Association and Presidential aspirant in the forthcoming
2020 national elections graced the Public Lecture held today as part of the
series of activities marking the Bar Week of the Calabar Branch of the
Nigerian Bar Association.This was made known in a press statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA).
Mr. Ogunlana used the occasion to reiterate his RadicalAgenda to lead the Nigerian Bar Association into battle against the avalanche of attacks and living conditions, which sections of the ruling elite will unfurl in the 2020 and beyond .
His RadicalAgenda message was well received as he took time to take photographs with participants.
Sunday, January 26, 2020
OGUNLANA, RAMINBA APPLAUDS RELEASE OF DR. JOSEPH ODOK ON BAIL, DEMANDS FOR A DATE FOR AGBA JALINGO CASE
Mr. Ogunlana Adesina Ademola , the Chairman of the Radical
Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) and Presidential
aspirant in the forthcoming 2020 national elections of the Nigerian Bar
Association has welcomed the release on bail of Dr. Joseph Odok, the
legal practitioner detained over his Facebook comment on the administration of
Governor Ben Ayade- led Cross Rivers State Government.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of RadicalBar2020, Dr. Joseph Odok was granted bail by Honourable Justice Amobeda of the Federal High Court, Calabar Division will two sureties on 10 million naira bail sum. Upon perfection of same, he was released from Calabar Correctional Centre, where he has spent altogether 117 days.
Mr. Ogunlana while expressing joy at the release of Dr. Joseph Odok expressed the need to maintain vigilance until the end of the matter. It would be recalled that the matter has been adjourned to 28th and 29th January, 2020 for trial.
In a related development, Mr. Ogunlana called on the Administrative Judge of the Calabar Division of the Federal High Court, Honourable Justice Shuaibu to assign a date for the matter of Agba Jalingo, the journalist who is also in the custody of the Calabar Correctional Centre for charges bordering on terrorism and treason for criticising the administration of Governor Ben Ayade.
Mr. Ogunlana has reiterated his Radical Agenda to the Nigerian Bar Association to strengthen the Association, if placed under his watch, as a place of refuge for members of the Association at all times and in all adverse circumstances, be they unwarranted suffering in the hands of any agency or arm of Government.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of RadicalBar2020, Dr. Joseph Odok was granted bail by Honourable Justice Amobeda of the Federal High Court, Calabar Division will two sureties on 10 million naira bail sum. Upon perfection of same, he was released from Calabar Correctional Centre, where he has spent altogether 117 days.
Mr. Ogunlana while expressing joy at the release of Dr. Joseph Odok expressed the need to maintain vigilance until the end of the matter. It would be recalled that the matter has been adjourned to 28th and 29th January, 2020 for trial.
In a related development, Mr. Ogunlana called on the Administrative Judge of the Calabar Division of the Federal High Court, Honourable Justice Shuaibu to assign a date for the matter of Agba Jalingo, the journalist who is also in the custody of the Calabar Correctional Centre for charges bordering on terrorism and treason for criticising the administration of Governor Ben Ayade.
Mr. Ogunlana has reiterated his Radical Agenda to the Nigerian Bar Association to strengthen the Association, if placed under his watch, as a place of refuge for members of the Association at all times and in all adverse circumstances, be they unwarranted suffering in the hands of any agency or arm of Government.
OGUNLANA , RAMINBA KNOCKS FG OVER FINANCE ACT, CALLS FOR RESISTANCE AHEAD IMPLEMENTATION BY FEBRUARY 1ST , 2020
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) , the
Finance Act needs to be
been roundly condemned by organised private sector, the labour movement and civil society
as a grand policy to fleece the people and endanger productivity.
The statement condemned the new Finance Act whichheralds a new regime of Value Added Tax rate of 7.5 per cent, up from five per cent.
The statement viewed the new regime as a tool of turning the Nigerian people into cash cow.
The statement condemned the increase in Value Added Tax. It also submitted that it was inappropriate to compel loss-making firms to pay tax, no matter how little.
The statement noted that overburdening the Nigerian people with with taxes would further impoverish the citizens.
The statement submitted that instead of offloading the burden of cost of governance on the masses, the
government should drastically cut the cost of governance.
With effect from the 1st day of February, 2020,
thee new Act amends the Petroleum Profit Tax Act, Customs and Excise Tariff Act, Company Income Tax Act, Personal Income Tax Act, Value Added Tax, Stamp Duties Act and the Capital Gains Tax.
Ahead of the date of commencement of new anti-peole Finance Act, the statement called for resistance to br built by the students' and labour movement as well as professional Associations such as the Nigerian Bar Association.
As RAMINBA has consistently warned, 2020 is already being unfurled as a "year of Economic Armaggedon" by all sections of the ruling elite.
Mr. Ogunlana reiterated his Radical Agenda to the Nigerian Bar Association to re-position the Association as a combative vanguard in the social rescue mission that Nigeria urgently needs to liberate itself from the hands of the jackals that have held it by the jugular.
OGUNLANA, RAMINBA CONDEMNS REPRESSION OF PRO- AMOTEKUN PROTESTERS IN LAGOS, DECRY ATTACKS ON DEMOCRATIC SPACE
Ogunlana Adesina Ademola, Chairman of Radical
Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and presidential aspirant in
the forthcoming 2020 national elections of the Nigerian Bar Association has
condemned the repression of protesters who gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi
Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos State for a Solidarity Walk in support of the
Operation Amotekun, the Western Regional Security Network launched recently by
Governors of Southwest States.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi , the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of #RadicalBar2020, the attack on the Solidarity Walk by hundreds of operatives of Department of State Services and Nigerian Police Force is roundly condemnable.
According to media reports, the venue of the Solidarity Walk was besieged by Armoured Personnel Carrier and other scores of vans with gun-totting uniformed officers and men in plain clothes.Equally , participants on the ground were arrested and detained for a period of time before being released including a legal practitioner, Oladotun Hassan , a member of Epe Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association.
The statement condemned the infringement of the right to peaceful assembly. The statement decried the growing constriction of Civic and Democratic space under Major General Muhammadu Buhari-led regime.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi , the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of #RadicalBar2020, the attack on the Solidarity Walk by hundreds of operatives of Department of State Services and Nigerian Police Force is roundly condemnable.
According to media reports, the venue of the Solidarity Walk was besieged by Armoured Personnel Carrier and other scores of vans with gun-totting uniformed officers and men in plain clothes.Equally , participants on the ground were arrested and detained for a period of time before being released including a legal practitioner, Oladotun Hassan , a member of Epe Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association.
The statement condemned the infringement of the right to peaceful assembly. The statement decried the growing constriction of Civic and Democratic space under Major General Muhammadu Buhari-led regime.
Sunday, January 19, 2020
RAMINBA ALERT AGAINST ONLINE MANIPULATION, MIS- INFORMATION , AND PROPAGANDA
Ogunlana Adesina Ademola , the Chairman of the
Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and presidential
aspirant with RadicalBar2020 has issued a stern warning against online
gangsterism in the forthcoming 2020 national elections of the Nigerian Bar
Association.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of RadicalBar2020, Mr. Ogunlana took to his popular Facebook wall, where he commented thus:
" I consider it neccessary now to draw the attention of all lawyers ,
particularly ardent supporters of our aspiration to the NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION 2020 PRESIDENCY to the pathetic online manipulation going on, on some group platforms with the sole objective of subtraneously influencing the voting pattern in the NBA 2020 GENERAL ELECTIONS in favour of preferred candidates of the organisers of spurious polls as well as cast such organisers as HEAVY WEIGHT INFLUENCERS to be courted, worshipped and rewarded by 'serious contenders' .
Let me say categorically that we here at RAMINBA ,are not moved by schemes of self ascribed influencers. We are the General Banquo of William Shakespeare's classic 'MACBETH' who told off the three witches that had so enormously impressed another General, Macbeth 'if indeed be you can see in to the seeds of time and say which will germinate or not, then tell me who neither FEAR you or CURRY your favour ' (this quotation is a rewording of the Shakespearean lines ) .
In the very first online poll that was known to the public, one Favour Njoku dared to claim that I , "SERUBAWON" OGUNLANA voted in the poll and that my vote went to a rival and went on to make ridiculous comments and assertions. In the face of the false claims of Njoku, the organiser kept mum . I now pointedly ask the organizer, popularly known as STEVE SUN to answer whether I participated in his polls and also whether that my vote went to a rival.
Let me say again, in this contest , we fear nobody . Yes, there are dangers and challenges within and without, including boasts and plans of preemptive steps already being taken to eliminate me from the contest courtesy of the ploy of the usual card of DIS-QUALIFICATION but I want to assure EVERYBODY , that I , OGUNLANA ADESINA ADEMOLA , by the grace of the MOST MERCIFUL,MOST BENEVOLENT, THE OMNIPOTENT AND ALMIGHTY GOD will contest in the 2020 NBA GENERAL ELECTIONS . Those who are planning my electoral elimination have not and cannot carry God along in their plans and have FAILED . Kindly take note all, of this ASSERTIONS that I have made this day Saturday 18th JANUARY 2020 in the Lord and in HIS name . I have said it before and I am saying it again, ' Let the Hawk fly , let the Eagle fly,which ever bird says the other should not fly , let the wings of such break !
May I respectfully at this juncture direct the cognition of all to the following salient facts
( a) it is the RAMINBA aspirant that has a salvationist/ interventionist agenda role for the NBA in favour of Nigeria and holds the greatest chances of bringjng back the glorious vibrance of the ALAO AKA-BASHORUN 1987-89 presidency
( b) The RAMINBA aspirant does not practise ' moneyteering ' politics and politicking' in any form.
(C) the RAMINBA aspirant tis the established , consistently social ACTIVIST figure, whose perspectives every other aspirant now copies or emulates
( d) i the RAMINBA aspirant is in the contest witb an IDEOLOGY and comes witb the RADICAL AGENDA
(e) even though all the aspirants are Lagos based practitioners , ithe RAMINBA aspirant played notable and publicly acknowledged roles in frustrating and defeating the infamous Land Use Charge Law 2018 of former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode even at heavy personal risks
( f) the RAMINBA aspirant is one candidates epitomising , COURAGE , FORTITUDE in the face of adversity and RESILIENCE
We urge our supporters to remain focused and stand resolute.Let your hearts shake not . Be wise to the wiles of smart alecs and manipulators It is a marathon.and .....WE SHALL OVERCOME.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of RadicalBar2020, Mr. Ogunlana took to his popular Facebook wall, where he commented thus:
" I consider it neccessary now to draw the attention of all lawyers ,
particularly ardent supporters of our aspiration to the NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION 2020 PRESIDENCY to the pathetic online manipulation going on, on some group platforms with the sole objective of subtraneously influencing the voting pattern in the NBA 2020 GENERAL ELECTIONS in favour of preferred candidates of the organisers of spurious polls as well as cast such organisers as HEAVY WEIGHT INFLUENCERS to be courted, worshipped and rewarded by 'serious contenders' .
Let me say categorically that we here at RAMINBA ,are not moved by schemes of self ascribed influencers. We are the General Banquo of William Shakespeare's classic 'MACBETH' who told off the three witches that had so enormously impressed another General, Macbeth 'if indeed be you can see in to the seeds of time and say which will germinate or not, then tell me who neither FEAR you or CURRY your favour ' (this quotation is a rewording of the Shakespearean lines ) .
In the very first online poll that was known to the public, one Favour Njoku dared to claim that I , "SERUBAWON" OGUNLANA voted in the poll and that my vote went to a rival and went on to make ridiculous comments and assertions. In the face of the false claims of Njoku, the organiser kept mum . I now pointedly ask the organizer, popularly known as STEVE SUN to answer whether I participated in his polls and also whether that my vote went to a rival.
Let me say again, in this contest , we fear nobody . Yes, there are dangers and challenges within and without, including boasts and plans of preemptive steps already being taken to eliminate me from the contest courtesy of the ploy of the usual card of DIS-QUALIFICATION but I want to assure EVERYBODY , that I , OGUNLANA ADESINA ADEMOLA , by the grace of the MOST MERCIFUL,MOST BENEVOLENT, THE OMNIPOTENT AND ALMIGHTY GOD will contest in the 2020 NBA GENERAL ELECTIONS . Those who are planning my electoral elimination have not and cannot carry God along in their plans and have FAILED . Kindly take note all, of this ASSERTIONS that I have made this day Saturday 18th JANUARY 2020 in the Lord and in HIS name . I have said it before and I am saying it again, ' Let the Hawk fly , let the Eagle fly,which ever bird says the other should not fly , let the wings of such break !
May I respectfully at this juncture direct the cognition of all to the following salient facts
( a) it is the RAMINBA aspirant that has a salvationist/ interventionist agenda role for the NBA in favour of Nigeria and holds the greatest chances of bringjng back the glorious vibrance of the ALAO AKA-BASHORUN 1987-89 presidency
( b) The RAMINBA aspirant does not practise ' moneyteering ' politics and politicking' in any form.
(C) the RAMINBA aspirant tis the established , consistently social ACTIVIST figure, whose perspectives every other aspirant now copies or emulates
( d) i the RAMINBA aspirant is in the contest witb an IDEOLOGY and comes witb the RADICAL AGENDA
(e) even though all the aspirants are Lagos based practitioners , ithe RAMINBA aspirant played notable and publicly acknowledged roles in frustrating and defeating the infamous Land Use Charge Law 2018 of former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode even at heavy personal risks
( f) the RAMINBA aspirant is one candidates epitomising , COURAGE , FORTITUDE in the face of adversity and RESILIENCE
We urge our supporters to remain focused and stand resolute.Let your hearts shake not . Be wise to the wiles of smart alecs and manipulators It is a marathon.and .....WE SHALL OVERCOME.
OGUNLANA, RAMINBA Calls for Withdrawal of Charges against Joseph Odok Esq., Launches "OPERATION FREE JOSEPH ODOK"
Ogunlana Adesina Ademola , Chairman of Radical
Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Movement (RAMINBA) and Presidential
aspirant with RadicalBar2020 has called for withdrawal of the charges
against Joseph Odok, a legal practitioner and critic of Professor Ben Ayade ,
Governor of Cross Rivers State , who is being held at the Calabar Correctional
Centre for charges bodrering on terrorism, for posting a Facebook
comment on the Cross Rivers' State Governor.
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) and Director of Media, Publicity, Strategy and Communications of #RadicalBar2020,
Mr. Joseph
Odok , a member of Calabar Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association risks a death sentence if convicted for alleged acts of terrorism premised on a post credited to him on Facebook and remains remanded at the Medium Security Custodial Center in Calabar where he has spent 88 days so far.
Mr. Ogunlana took to his popular Facebook wall , where he commented thus:
"JOSEPH ODOK , AN ALBATROSS ON A GOVERNORS 'S NECK AND A CHALLENGE TO THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION
On 24th December 2019 , RAMINBA ,( RADICAL AGENDA MOVEMENT IN THE NBA ) sent a team made up of Ayo Ademiluyi (the Secretary) and I (as Chairman) to Calabar Prisons to meet two political detainees there . The first is AGBA JALINGO , the second is JOSEPH ODOK , PhD .
Both men are
critics of Benjamen Ayade , a Professor , the Governor of their Cross River
State and have been suffering prolonged incarceration and persecutorial
trials for daring to question the Governor's financial integrity in governance .
While Agba Jalingo is a journalist, Dr Joseph Odok ia legal practitioner .
Our RAMINBA team landed in Calabar on 25th December2019 and indeed met with the two men
Sadly, while the public is aware of the travails of AGBA JALINGO,, only a few people relatively know about the suffering of the doctor of Law , Joseph Odok , as his case hardly ever front page news . In reality, Joseph Odok has suffered the sting of hellish state persecution far longer than Agba Jalingo . Called to the Bar in 2006, Odok , 42 years old , was forced out of his lecturer's job at the University of Calabar in 2015 upon being marked down as an antagonist of the Governor of the state and later forced to exile himself from Cross River state after a close shave assasination attempt was made on him by agents he claimed were of the Governor's . All attempts at adequate and proper investigation and prosecution of the dastard incident have been sytmied by state forces . In controversial and suspicious circumstances, Cecilia, his wife lost her job in Abuja at a federal institution and so for quite a long time now, the Joseph Odok family has been in dire straits
Odok's case is another tragically funny one of s Nigerian citizen alleging financial impropriety against a state Governor being tried for treason and terrorism at a federal high court .! Just like the AGBA JALINGO'S CASE . . From interactions with Odok's wife, , it would appear that while the national leadership of the NBA is not (officially) aware of her husband's case , the local Branch of the NBA, in Calabar is not all that interested in rescuing her husband from the clutches of the powers that be in Cross River State .
RAMINBA is very keen in intervening in Dr Odok 's matter; including raising relief funds for his distressed family payable into the wife's account and participating cogently in the trial of the matter , said to be coming up again ( bail) before Justice Amobeda of the FEDERAL HIGH COURT 2, CALABAR ON 21 January 2020 .
We humbly solicit the support of all Nigerian Lawyers in the great mission , OPERATION FREE DR JOSEPH ODOK . Details later ."
In a related development,
a Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River, on Friday adjourned the bail hearing for Joseph Odok, a lawyer charged with terrorism and cybercrime for criticising Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State until Tuesday, January 21 at the instance of the prosecution.
Justice Simon Amobeda, who presided over the matter, in his ruling granted the submission of the prosecution counsel, Dennis Tarhemba which referred the court to its rules that grant a party up to a week to join issues on any process filed.
Tarhemba, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, had failed to appear in court on Thursday with Justice Amobeda ruling that the defense counsel, Oliver Osang, will be allowed to move the motion for bail should the prosecutor be absent.
On Friday, Tarhemba submitted that his office received the process two days back (on Wednesday) and was yet to file a response due to the fact he had travelled and returned on Thursday.
“We filed the motion on Wednesday and served them that same day,” Osang told journalists.
He further averred that, “We will wait for them to join issues and see what they come up with by the next court date.”
Odok risks a death sentence if convicted for alleged acts of terrorism premised on a post credited to him on Facebook and remains remanded at the Medium Security Custodial Center in Calabar where he has spent 88 days so far.
He was arrested at his Abuja residence on September 26, 2019 and endured what family members say was a tortuous journey by road to Calabar where he was then detained at a black site facility.
He spent seven days in the facility before the police approached the Calabar division of the Federal High Court seeking an order to detain him for 90 days on October 4, 2019.
The prosecution counsel, Tarhemba, said the order will aid the police to travel with the defendant within and outside the jurisdiction of the court to retrieve items that will aid their case.
According to the application, Odok was charged with criminal conspiracy, rape, treasonable felony, terrorism and obtaining money under false pretenses.
Justice Amobeda in his ruling granted 45 days with an option for renewal.
However, 10 days later on October 14, the police filed two charges against Odok bordering on terrorism and cyberstalking.
Justice Amobeda in his ruling of December 16, 2019 refused admitting Odok to bail on the grounds that the defense had not shown exceptional circumstances to warrant the court to exercise its discretion.
Mr. Ogunlana has further assured members of the Nigerian Bar Association that if entrusted with the prime Leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association, the Association will stand with its members facing victimisation from any organ or section of Government .
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| Joseph Odok, an active lawyer and
member of NBA, Calabar Branch |
In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) and Director of Media, Publicity, Strategy and Communications of #RadicalBar2020,
Mr. Joseph
Odok , a member of Calabar Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association risks a death sentence if convicted for alleged acts of terrorism premised on a post credited to him on Facebook and remains remanded at the Medium Security Custodial Center in Calabar where he has spent 88 days so far.
Mr. Ogunlana took to his popular Facebook wall , where he commented thus:
"JOSEPH ODOK , AN ALBATROSS ON A GOVERNORS 'S NECK AND A CHALLENGE TO THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION
On 24th December 2019 , RAMINBA ,( RADICAL AGENDA MOVEMENT IN THE NBA ) sent a team made up of Ayo Ademiluyi (the Secretary) and I (as Chairman) to Calabar Prisons to meet two political detainees there . The first is AGBA JALINGO , the second is JOSEPH ODOK , PhD .
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| Happier moments: Mrs. Cecilia Odok.and Baby Odok await eagerly the release
of breadwinner |
While Agba Jalingo is a journalist, Dr Joseph Odok ia legal practitioner .
Our RAMINBA team landed in Calabar on 25th December2019 and indeed met with the two men
Sadly, while the public is aware of the travails of AGBA JALINGO,, only a few people relatively know about the suffering of the doctor of Law , Joseph Odok , as his case hardly ever front page news . In reality, Joseph Odok has suffered the sting of hellish state persecution far longer than Agba Jalingo . Called to the Bar in 2006, Odok , 42 years old , was forced out of his lecturer's job at the University of Calabar in 2015 upon being marked down as an antagonist of the Governor of the state and later forced to exile himself from Cross River state after a close shave assasination attempt was made on him by agents he claimed were of the Governor's . All attempts at adequate and proper investigation and prosecution of the dastard incident have been sytmied by state forces . In controversial and suspicious circumstances, Cecilia, his wife lost her job in Abuja at a federal institution and so for quite a long time now, the Joseph Odok family has been in dire straits
Odok's case is another tragically funny one of s Nigerian citizen alleging financial impropriety against a state Governor being tried for treason and terrorism at a federal high court .! Just like the AGBA JALINGO'S CASE . . From interactions with Odok's wife, , it would appear that while the national leadership of the NBA is not (officially) aware of her husband's case , the local Branch of the NBA, in Calabar is not all that interested in rescuing her husband from the clutches of the powers that be in Cross River State .
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| RAMINBA launches OPERATION FREE JOSEPH ODOK |
RAMINBA is very keen in intervening in Dr Odok 's matter; including raising relief funds for his distressed family payable into the wife's account and participating cogently in the trial of the matter , said to be coming up again ( bail) before Justice Amobeda of the FEDERAL HIGH COURT 2, CALABAR ON 21 January 2020 .
We humbly solicit the support of all Nigerian Lawyers in the great mission , OPERATION FREE DR JOSEPH ODOK . Details later ."
In a related development,
a Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River, on Friday adjourned the bail hearing for Joseph Odok, a lawyer charged with terrorism and cybercrime for criticising Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State until Tuesday, January 21 at the instance of the prosecution.
Justice Simon Amobeda, who presided over the matter, in his ruling granted the submission of the prosecution counsel, Dennis Tarhemba which referred the court to its rules that grant a party up to a week to join issues on any process filed.
Tarhemba, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, had failed to appear in court on Thursday with Justice Amobeda ruling that the defense counsel, Oliver Osang, will be allowed to move the motion for bail should the prosecutor be absent.
On Friday, Tarhemba submitted that his office received the process two days back (on Wednesday) and was yet to file a response due to the fact he had travelled and returned on Thursday.
“We filed the motion on Wednesday and served them that same day,” Osang told journalists.
He further averred that, “We will wait for them to join issues and see what they come up with by the next court date.”
Odok risks a death sentence if convicted for alleged acts of terrorism premised on a post credited to him on Facebook and remains remanded at the Medium Security Custodial Center in Calabar where he has spent 88 days so far.
He was arrested at his Abuja residence on September 26, 2019 and endured what family members say was a tortuous journey by road to Calabar where he was then detained at a black site facility.
He spent seven days in the facility before the police approached the Calabar division of the Federal High Court seeking an order to detain him for 90 days on October 4, 2019.
The prosecution counsel, Tarhemba, said the order will aid the police to travel with the defendant within and outside the jurisdiction of the court to retrieve items that will aid their case.
According to the application, Odok was charged with criminal conspiracy, rape, treasonable felony, terrorism and obtaining money under false pretenses.
Justice Amobeda in his ruling granted 45 days with an option for renewal.
However, 10 days later on October 14, the police filed two charges against Odok bordering on terrorism and cyberstalking.
Justice Amobeda in his ruling of December 16, 2019 refused admitting Odok to bail on the grounds that the defense had not shown exceptional circumstances to warrant the court to exercise its discretion.
Mr. Ogunlana has further assured members of the Nigerian Bar Association that if entrusted with the prime Leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association, the Association will stand with its members facing victimisation from any organ or section of Government .
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