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ABUSE OF POWER!!!
A Lagos magistrate, Funke Sule-Hamzat, yesterday March 21, 2016, sent a mother of three, Yetunde Osijo, to be detained at the Kirikiri prison for scratching her car yesterday.
According to eye witness, the driver of Sule-Hamzat, who is a magistrate at the Ogudu Magistrate court, allegedly bumped into Osijo’s car but the magistrate ordered that she should be arrested, took her to her court and promptly ordered that she should be detained at Kirikiri without giving her the opportunity to get a lawyer to represent her.
“Magistrate Sule-Hamzat has just ordered that Yetunde Osijo be locked up in Kirikiri prison for scratching her car earlier today. However, it was the Magistrate’s driver that was liable. At the time when the minor accident occurred, Yetunde assumed she was asked to leave only to realise that Sule-Hamzat’s car was chasing her and then bumped her car from behind. She stopped her car and the magistrate ordered that Yetunde Osijo be detained. Yesterday, she was tried without legal representation at a court in Ogudu, with her accuser the judge and jury, literarily. WITHOUT the presence of the driver of the Magistrate in court.
Osijo also stressed that the driver of the Magistrate, who drove the car involved in the accident, was not in court.
We call for Nigerians to protest this miscarriage of justice.
“In a speedy development, she was already taken to Kirikiri in a Black Maria. She is a mother of 3-years-old twin boys, and she was on her way to take one of them to the hospital. Fellow Nigerians, please let’s not allow a Magistrate abuse the use of her office by detaining Yetunde in kirikiri. She is NOT A CRIMINAL. Let’s not allow Yetunde continue to sleep in Kirikiri or in any jail. Let's say no to misuse of power and unlawful detention.
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