POLSCOPE WITH EDDY ODIVWRI: SO WHO KILLED KUDIRAT ABIOLA?

EDDY ODIVWRI

Penultimate Friday, the Appeal Court sitting in Lagos, discharged and acquitted Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, on the grounds that there were no evidences to nail him in the murder of Mrs Kudirat Abiola, wife of late Chief MKO Abiola. It was a truth-plaited judgment  that held many people in stitches, just as it triggered an eerie excitement and jubilation in the camp of those absolved of the crime. The celebrations that greeted the judgement in the camp of Al-Mustpha is better understood, when you recall that just last January, a Lagos High Court had found Mustapha and Lateef Sofolahan guilty of the crime, and pronounced them guilty with the penalty of death by hanging. But that Friday morning, all that changed.

EDDY ODIVWRI: FRAUD: HOW SWIFTLY WE MOVE

Polscope with Eddy Odivwri; Eddy.odivwri@thisdaylive.com, 08053069356

Sometime last year, I wrote an article where I accused the judiciary of aiding and abetting the high-arched corruption in the country. Both the lawyers and the judges do not seem to understand that in the avowed fight against corruption, that we must rise above the technical legalese which they always cling to in frustrating the prosecution of accused persons. They throw all kinds of spanners into the works to stall the conviction of accused persons. That is why the cases are neither dismissed nor is any progress made on them. They just hang there, year after year, an act that only emboldens corrupt persons.