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Afe Babalola Should Not Allow Farotimi’s Case Define His Legacy – Effiong

Effiong was a guest on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television.

Human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong has expressed concerns over the legal of legal icon Aare Afe Babalola in his alleged defamation case against lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi.

According to him, the nonagenarian Senior Advocate of Nigeria should not allow the case against Farotimi to define a legacy he has built for over six decades in the legal profession.

Effiong was a guest on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television.

He said, “The name Afe Babalola is an institution in this country. I don’t know if there’s a lawyer today older than him or a senior advocate. I mean he’s a father of senior advocates so I would have thought, and I say this with all sense of responsibility and humility, that at that age, he’s mindful of a sense of history and legacy.

“I don’t want this to define him. This case should not be his legacy. If I get to the age of 80, if God preserves my life and I get to the age of 80 and 85, I’ll be circumspect. It is not every offense that I’ll use a sledgehammer, that I will invoke institutions of state no matter how offensive what said was.”

Effiong said the offense of criminal defamation is not a serious offense. “I mean even if assuming you were to be convicted it’s not an offense that you will spend years in prison. One year, maybe two, so it’s not like a serious felony that you will spend 17 years so,” he said.

Last week, the police in Ekiti State arrested the lawyer and author at his Lagos office and bundled him to South-West state for prosecution.

The police arraigned the author for publishing a book, ‘Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System’ where he alleged that Afe Babalola corrupted the Judiciary and procured judgements in the Supreme Court. The defendant has pleaded not guilty to all the sixteen counts levelled against him.

Effiong knocked the police for their harassment of Farotimi. “I’m not surprised that the police will do what they did. The police in Nigeria are incapable of reform. The police are not reformable and I said that without apology… The police in Nigeria has been privatised,” he said.

“I was reading a publication where the IG (Inspector General) is saying that the judiciary is sick and weak the same police that has made the judiciary sick and weak the same IG whose institution is not obeying court orders, is detaining Nigerians illegally? The police are the major culprit of the bastardisation of our judicial process, the bastardisation of our correctional service so we need to be careful.

“It looks like those who are going after Dele Farotimi are determined to vindicate him because if a man is coming out to speak in a very acerbic language about the institution that is a member, the judiciary, I would have thought that the same judiciary should be self-aware that it’s not only this person that is on trial and should be mindful to avoid anything that will give us a semblance of impropriety because if somebody is accusing the judiciary of wrongdoing,” he said.

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Effiong is a real Nig"ga, not like dem batified fake as' Niccaz.

Which legacy

No human being is perfect. I agree with Effiong.

Farotimi told the people he tarnished their image to meet him at the court

Oky

People should leave this issue for the court to decide. Farotimi said he have evidences to back himself up, and not even minding to go to jail if found guilty so let’s see who is lying.

Am not a fan of Pa Afe Babalola, but it will be injustice on him if someone all in the name of selling a book or gaining cheap popularity wrote those allegations without a proof.

wah up

Morbeta11:


https://www.channelstv.com/2024/12/10/afe-babalola-should-not-allow-farotimis-case-define-his-legacy-effiong/

this[b] same SAN [/b]has said more WORSE to government official of other PARTIES to his own Allies

Useless mumudients
He is still going to face 20 lawsuits


Beggi beggi brainless obsidians

Lol

He must provide evidence.

If Afe Babalola was your father, would you applaud whoever defamed him?

If care is not taken, u sef go Dele Farotimi for where he dey

What concerns you?

Which legacy, country with a very corrupt judicial system.

He’s an oppressor

They keep distracting hungry Nigerians with irrelevant issues

I thought you were making mouth before...

DF has allowed the headless mobs to push in into trouble.....

In everything you do.....avoid the headless mobs ing you...

.....it's ends in tears...

Jagaban 2031.....

Mtchew..

People wey no understand the meaning of defamation no go fit understand how it feels to be defamed!

Dele should just be ready to prove evidence, that’s all! If not eehh, he’s a goner!

LordIsaac:
No human being is perfect. I agree with Effiong.

exactly, hmmm it's well

Useless blackmail.

I trust Afe Babalola, the man no be your usual regular simp, he is a thoroughbred SAN and he will use Farotimi as a scapegoat.

Make una dey push Dele, I’m sure when he go jail, you guys go find another person to finish.

Useless country with corrupt judiciary system, failed country.

Dele will do worse if released. He is like Nnamdi Kanu who also runs his mouth any how.

Lawyer that says what the audience wants to hear. You will be doomed to have such as your lawyer in a case where much is at stake.

He has a point... A very Valid one at that

Corrupt legacies you mean. It is obvious he is a corrupt man.

omoOYOauthentic:
Baba Afe should forgive Farotimi.

For what?

But he should allow that clown to rubbish his legacy.... Dele Farotimi must prove his allegations in the court of law. Kapish!


Dele was stunned in court today. His initial lawyer jaboed him citing unreasonableness of the incarcerated lawyer.

Mumu talk.

Stupid Obidient.

So you expect Age Babalola to just siddon dey look? Tomorrow they will say silence means ittance.

LegendHero:
Useless blackmail.

I trust Afe Babalola, the man no be your usual regular simp, he is a thoroughbred SAN and he will use Farotimi as a scapegoat.

Make una dey push Dele, I’m sure when he go jail, you guys go find another person to finish.

It should also lead to the review of the defamation laws in the country...

So it is okay for Dele Farotimi to define Afe Babalola's legacy?

Unthinking social media mob.

You guys should stop harassing Prof Afe Babalola, you can't determine how he reacts to his personal matter, maybe you will know how it feels to be tarnished at the apex of ones existence when you reach 90years. Farotimi said they should all go to court and they are there, so what's the noise