Senior lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), yesterday passionately
appealed to the abductors of Justice Chioma Iheme-Nwosu of the
Court of Appeal in Benin City, to release her unhurt.
Justice Iheme-Nwosu was last Wednesday kidnapped along the
Benin-Agbor Road by gunmen who killed her police orderly.
Ozekhome in a statement urged the abductors of the jurist to see
her as their mother they would never do anything to hurt no matter
the circumstances.
“I beg you, captors or kidnappers of Justice Iheme-Nwosu in the
name of God Almighty to please release her unhurt. See her as your
mother that you would never do anything to hurt no matter the
circumstances. I beg you also in the name of humanity and of
womanhood,” he said
Ozekhome said the abduction of Justice Iheme-Nwosu, in broad
daylight in Benin City only goes to show how unsafe the country has
become.
“The abduction in broad daylight in Benin City of Justice
Iheme-Nwosu is the saddest reminder of a beleaguered nation in the
asphixiating throes of death by installment. That her police
orderly that accompanied her was brutally killed and dismembered in
the process, in a most horrific manner, sends the chill down our
spines.”
The human rights lawyer equally lamented that while Nigerians
are being mauled down across the nooks and crannies of country, the
politicians who are supposed to drastic action to address the issue
are busy politicking and unconcerned.
He noted that while elected officials who won in the 2019
general election are yet to settle down in office, “mindless
politicians are already busy, strategising and plotting for 2023”
thereby over heating the polity
“And the hapless masses are the victims of this societal
degeneracy and misplaced values. The judiciary, the weakest and
whipping child of the three arms of government, is mostly at the
receiving end.”
Ozekhome also noted that while a minister or senator could
afford to travel in convoys of fully armed security operatives, a
judge is left with just one policeman who is usually armed with
obsolete firearms.
“He is plucked down and dismembered like a chicken. Yet, the
judge, especially justices of the Court of Appeal, must traverse
the nation, handling never ending sensitive appeals from election
petition tribunals, in jurisdictions other than their ordinarily
accustomed places of abode or sitting. They are thus compelled by
the cause and course of duty to travel by road, the very bad roads
that are unmanned by security personnel. They thus fall easy prey
to marauders. Justice Iheme-Nwosu has just suffered this fate.”
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