Enugu Lawyer Slams FG For Frittering Tax- payers Money To Prosecute A Private Civil Dispute Between Afe Babalola and Dele Farotimi
An Nsukka based lawyer, Mr Nick Abugu, has slammed the Federal Government for frittering away, people's patrimony in the investigating and prosecution of a purely civil matter between the Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, and an activist, Dele Farotimi at Ado Ekiti, in Ekiti State.
An Nsukka based lawyer, Mr Nick Abugu, has slammed the Federal Government for frittering away, people's patrimony in the investigating and prosecution of a purely civil matter between the Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, and an activist, Dele Farotimi at Ado Ekiti, in Ekiti State.
Abugu spoke in a statement on Sunday, questioning the rational behind the expenditure of tax payers' money in private civil dispute, at a time when hunger is stampeding Nigerians to death at Abuja, Okija and Ibadan in Anambra and Oyo States to calm the turmoil roiling within and assailing these Nigerians.
The statement titled, "The Farotimi Foofaraw," read, "It is beyond dispute that the Nigeria Police Force arrested Dele Farotimi before he was arraigned in any court charged with the commission of any criminal offence.
"Did any person formally complain to the Nigeria Police Force that Dele Farotimi did any act constituting a crime before the police arrested him?
"Did Aare Afe Babalola cause the police to arrest Dele Farotimi and, subsequently, charge him to any court for committing any criminal offence?
"If the answer is yes, did the Nigeria Police Force arrest Dele Farotimi on any other ground apart from the complaint by or on behalf of Aare Afe Babalola?
"The answers to the above questions will help persons who may be agitated or have misgivings that the tax payers' money and public patrimony are being frittered away to finance the investigation and prosecution of what is, and should remain, a private civil dispute between Aare Afe Babalola and Dele Farotimi at a time hunger is stampeding Nigerians to death at Abuja and Okija and Ibadan in Anambra and Oyo States respectively, to calm the turmoil roiling within and assailing these Nigerians."
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