He is perhaps also not happy about the sharia imbroglio. Ajetumobi is obviously upset with our brothers and sisters from the north. It therefore makes it difficult for us to make the point that we set out in the first place to address. The problem we have in Nigeria today, especially amongst those of us that address issues affecting our polity, is that in our rush to pick a fight with a section of our society, we muddle up several issues that have no nexus with our target. The consequences of a breach of a civil duty of care, is the award of civil monetary judgment and not criminal incarceration.
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Ajetumobi is not a lawyer and therefore does not know that duty of care (at least the way he defined it) is a civil and not a criminal concept. Having concluded at the outset that Mohammed Abacha was guilty of complicity in his father's crimes, Ajetumobi embarked on a bizarre analysis of a duty of care. His "diagnosis" is absurd, to put it most charitably. Ajetunmobi termed his "diagnosis" as grim. Self-help criminal process is not the domain of a legitimate government.
#Sins of the father 2002 trial#
What is Obasanjo's reason for this unlawful arm-twisting exercise on Mohammed Abacha? By continuing to detain Mohammed after the apex court ruled that he should not stand trial for his alleged complicity in the murder of late Chief (Mrs.) Abiola, the federal government has shown itself as being the same as a Bakassi or OPC outfit. He had a reason for working outside the law and outside the bounds of common decency he was a military dictator in a non-democratic military regime. You cannot lay claims to the moral grounds by resorting to the same type of illegal acts that Sani Abacha is now infamous for. It is the deprivation of civil rights of a citizen and also a criminal act. That is an abuse of the criminal process. You do not enforce civil obligations with a criminal process. You cannot also detain him without any pending criminal charge just to force him to abide by a civil contract he struck with the government. You cannot punish Mohammed Abacha because of his father's misdeeds. The fact that people are asking the government to respect the constitutional rights of Mohammed Abacha does not mean that they are necessarily condoning his late father's kleptomania. The backbone of the Nigerian criminal justice system, nay all other democratic systems around the world, is the notion that one is innocent unless proven guilty. He was unable to separate his angst with the Northern states for passing the infamous Sharia criminal legislation from the legality or otherwise of continuing to detain an innocent Nigeria.
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Ajetunmobi was unable to separate emotion from legality. Ajetunmobi took the members of the Northern Senates Forum to task for calling on the Presidency to release Mohammed Abacha from prison.
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An article credited to Abdulsalam Olatubosun Ajetunmobi in entitled: Mohammed Abacha and breach of trust saddened me. Much as one may detest Sani Abacha and his offspring for the General's kleptomania, if we claim to be advocates for a better Nigeria, we must speak out against injustice although our efforts benefit those we despise. He latest pre-occupation of some Nigerians is a hearty justification of the continued detention of Mohammed Abacha.
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Sins of the father: The mugging of Mohammed Abacha