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| ‘I won't be intimidated’ - AG |
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| Written by News Hound | ||||||
| Tuesday, 18 September 2007 | ||||||
     One of such critics, Lagos lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, said in a statement on Sunday from his hospital bed in London that President Umar Yar’Adua should sack the Attorney-General immediately..... Legal practitioners have reacted to the move by the Attorney-General to exercise, the powers conferred on him by section 174 of the 1999 constitution. While some support this move, others dismissed his sense of interpretation of the constitutional provision. Mr. J. B. Daudu said, a member of the inner bar was quoted as saying: “The Attorney-General of the Federation is the Chief Law Officer of Nigeria, he wears this lofty title not because of his knowledge of the law but because he has the facilities of the state at his disposal and he can therefore be counted upon to advise government in the best manner as possible. “With this preamble, it is strange that the AGF will put forward the excuse that there is a subsisting order in a fundamental rights case emanating from a state high court barring prosecution for alleged crime brought by a federal agency before a federal court. “In the first place, criminal prosecution is a non-negotiable power of the state, no individual can avoid prosecution by the enforcement of alleged fundamental rights as the right to prosecute for alleged crimes cannot be waived or displaced by perceived civil rights. “It is so fundamental and sacrosanct that the entire fabric for the maintenance of law and order rests on the ability of the state to enforce her criminal laws and the only fundamental rights guaranteed in that regard are the right to fair hearing, the presumption of innocence, the right to be informed promptly of the offence(s) alleged against the accused in detail and the right to a trial in public subject to the good behaviour of the accused. Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), called for Aondoakaa’s outright sack, saying for as long as he (Aondoakaa) remained in office, Nigeria would continue to be a laughing stock before the international community. But Chief Aondoakaa has vowed that nothing, including the mounting criticisms against him over his handling of Kalu’s case would distract or stop him from doing his work. “Once there is a valid decision of a competent court of jurisdiction, I will obey it. Whoever is aggrieved by the decision can go back to court to set it aside or go to a higher court to vacate it,” he declared at a special court session in Abuja to mark the commencement of the Federal High Court Legal Year 2007\2008. “Even if the decision is reckless, I will not disobey it. I will go through the process to get it set aside,” he said on a day the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) and the Abuja Chapter of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria passed a vote of confidence on him and advised their colleagues criticising Aondoakaa (SAN) to show respect to him and his office.  Quote this article on your site | Print | E-mail
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