…”no matter how incompatible with the tenets of democracy this may be.”-@delemomodu.
There is no element of incompatibility with ”perpetual detention” of an accused while a case is ongoing in as much as a new charge(s) is filed in court despite the previous bail arrangement granted by any court of competent jurisdiction. We need to move away from this idealistic conceptualization of democracy and it’s tenets.
Recently, in France police arrested suspected islamic terrorist and locked them up without trial for days or the recent shooting of a man wielding a gun in front of police station in Paris. If these events happened in our clime Nigeria those with extreme idealism would say that it is extrajudicial killing. But these are what happened in a democratic nation, the cradle of the french revolution. No rule of law arguments over there…………………..
What the police did in France is justified because there is compelling governmental interest i.e national security to act in that mannerism given the recent terror attacks in Paris.
Epochal characterization of official corruption in our clime demands an extraordinary methodology @delemomodu.
Your sincerely has lived in various democracies in the western hemisphere for over 25years and I can tell you that there are so many instances when the so called democratic tenets are set aside to justify compelling governmental interest. So many examples of these events in international law, national legal instruments, political/philosophical literatures.
Please read my piece on this subject matter:
http://otunbailemobade.blogspot.nl/2016/01/philoquilox-fetishism-of-democratic.
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”Our President is being accused of bad faith for breaching the supposed gentleman’s agreement reached with the immediate past government not to probe its officers, especially the big man himself, President Goodluck Jonathan”, and some of his fat cats. Those supporting President Buhari are insisting that promises are meant to be made but not necessarily kept or unbroken. They argue that President Buhari knew things were very bad but didn’t know how horrible and terrible. And that now that he has come face to face with the grim reality he cannot afford to let those guys off the hook. It is such a serious matter that no covenant can stand in way of crime and punishment”. -@delemomodu
I totally disagree with the primera viewpoint. Moreover, what kind of unimplementable supposed gentleman’s agreement is that…… A man knows he and his officers have committed heinous crime against this country Nigeria and he thinks they can get away with treasonable offences with a slap on the wrist.
No NO No @mbuhari will never accept that and Nigerians will never accept such an agreement either. What kind of nation are we building for ourselves and the next generation. Please commot for road ahahhahhhah laugh.
”I will empower the Police and the secret services to operate better surveillance rather than lock up anyone indefinitely. I may not willy nilly allow those under trial to travel abroad but I will allow some measure of movements within our country. If the appropriate safeguards and undertakings are provided and given though, there is no reason why people with established medical ailments should not be permitted to travel abroad. With the co-operation of other nations and international criminal agencies, no country is a safe haven for the corrupt politician or ex government official. Indeed they may meet a greater Nemesis in the foreign climes that they desire to seek medical succour from. I believe the President may have been too hasty in concluding that those given bail to go abroad would necessarily abscond. I like to have a little more faith in our fellow citizens. After all there is nowhere that they can enjoy the trappings, privileges and expansive lifestyle that they relish than Nigeria”!
Simply put my honourable @delemomodu, this section is extremely idealistic. I imagine you have good intentions with your suggestions here but we are in Nigeria and not in Kukuhanaland with an ”Eldoradoic” romantic conception of human nature and behavior.
These people under investigation are not trustworthy, they betrayed Nigerian citizenry. They would do anything with the funds at their disposal to escape justice, even in the western society you are talking about @delemomodu It took the British government years to get Jordanian cleric out of Great Britain because he used the British law to frustrate the process of deportation thereby costing the British and the Jordanian Government financially.
Nigerian fugitives understand this fact very well. Historically, criminal political fugitives with resources are not easily deported the moment they get to the west because those countries are profiteurs and the criminals have enough political connections in high places to frustrate their deportation.
@delemomodu, they can relish their expensive lifestyle anywhere money talks: Dubai, Monte Carlo, Bahamas, Seychelles, etc no barrier please let us keep them at home in prison.
I can go on forever quoting examples but I leave the rest for the Nigerian Judiciary to adjudicate. God bless you @delemomodu for your contributions to national discourse.
OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE is a philosopher
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