Efio-Ita Nyok|8 March 2016|9:30pm
There has been an ongoing battle between the Executive Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Prof. Ben Ayade, and the erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Venatius Ikem, who are both Obudu born.
Recently, Ikem was summoned by a Chief Magistrate Court on trumped up charges of murder and illegal possession of government properties. However, in a ruling of Tuesday 7 March, Justice Obojor Ogar ruled against the lower court. This incited the commendation of Cross River foremost right activist, Barr. Okoi Obono-Obla who amongst other things said that, 'The judiciary has proven to be the bulk wart against the depotism,oppression and tyranny and injustice in Cross River State!'. What follows are the full details of his reaction on his social media wall.
*The judiciary has proven to be the bulk wart against the depotism, oppression and tyranny and injustice in Cross River State! God bless the Honourable Justice Obojor Ogar of the High Court of Cross River State for exercising his discretionary power to order the Chief Magistrate's Court, Calabar to suspend the purported trial of the indefatigable Barrister Venatius Ikem on a trumped charge!
You can imagine a situation where power is concentrated in the hands of one single individual, how people who disagree with the powers that be would have been mercilessly dealt with! The government of Cross River State is becoming increasingly paranoid, petty, tyrannical and intolerant of any form of dissent and oppression!
Even when the trumped and contrived charge against Barrister Vena Ikem was pending in the Chief Magistrate's Court, the government lodged a spurious complaint of attempted murder and stealing of government property against him; and compromised the Cross River Police Command which threw professionalism and decency to the winds by rushing to the press to declare Barrister Ikem wanted just to destroy his reputation and standing and portrayed him as a criminal!
You can imagine how wicked, asinine and mean the government of Cross River State under Ayade has become! You can imagine the pettiness and immaturity shown when some simpletons working in the officialdom decided to post some meaningless writings and mumbo jumbo castigating and insulting my person just because I was a guest of the African Independent Television, AIT on Thursday the 4th March 2016 to talk about political development in Cross River State.
Not yet done, the increasingly paranoid and vindictive government of Cross River State went to shameless and ridiculous level of sacking my brother (a member of the PDP) working with an agency of the government of Cross River State just to get at me!
It is a shame that we have just a juvenile, infantile and vindictive government in the State!
Okoi Obono-Obla
March 2016
I am charging the government of Cross River State to give democracy a chance. We are calling on Sen. Prof. Ben Ayade, who incidentally is a lawyer, to remember that the 'rule of law', which democracy objectifies calls for the objectification of fundamental human rights of which one is, right to freedom of association.
Efio-Ita Nyok
Is a Blogger & the Editor of Negroid Haven
