Nigerian Prison Authorities Illegally Detain Human Rights Lawyer, Inibehe Effiong For Refusing To Secretly Leave Facility At 6 AM After Expiration Of One-Month Sentence | Sahara Reporters

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The authorities at Uyo Medium Security Custodial Centre have refused to release human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong after he insisted that he would not leave the prison facility secretly as they had urged him to do. The lawyer has completed his one-month remand as ordered by the Chief Justice of Akwa Ibom, Ekaette Obot but the prison authorities are still keeping him in jail for refusing to leave secretly.

Nigerian Prison Authorities Illegally Detain Human Rights Lawyer, Inibehe Effiong For Refusing To Secretly Leave Facility At 6 AM After Expiration Of One-Month SentenceThe lawyer has completed his one-month remand as ordered by the Chief Justice of Akwa Ibom, Ekaette Obot but the prison authorities are still keeping him in jail for refusing to leave secretly.

SaharaReporters had on August 11 also reported that some officials of the NCS in Uyo assaulted and tortured Effiong, using blunt instruments to forcefully shave off his beard.However, on Friday, August 26, 2022, it was learnt that prison officials asked Effiong to quietly leave the prison at 6 am but the lawyer refused, saying he did not come in secretly and quietly.

SaharaReporters had reported how Justice Obot omitted important details in the record of court proceedings used to commit Effiong to prison. She also failed to add that the lawyer had applied that she should order the armed security officers to leave the courtroom as their presence was"creating hostility".

SaharaReporters had reported that the judge rushed back from vacation to release a copy of the proceedings, which had been doctored.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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Persons are admitted into correctional center only on the order of competent courts. There is nothing illegal about it. The question is whether the order is lawful or not and that is not the business of correctional center (prison).

Just tell us those who got him dere at first,still want to see him linger dere.🙄

Did they arrest and detain him secretly? Silly people.

Junk journalism.

I thought he has been released

Lol.... Nothing wey we no go see for Sahara reporter, someone sentenced by court is illegally detained? Your comrade don go chop bean come back, hopefully he would've gotten some brain reset 😂😂😂😂

Lies

Udom Emmanuel is behind

Why 6am in a country enveloped in banditry and kidnapping. Is there a bad intent in the script to harm him or push him into the waiting claws of vampires. This is too suspicious

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Nigeria as a whole is a lawless country that people getaway with almost everything

egbul2 free Mazi inibehe effiong. Because he have committed no crime known to the law but that he stands on a truthful part and that was the reason why the fulani jihadist terrorist government detained him.

Jungle- Sound Sultan

egbul2 free Mazi Nnamdi kanu unconditionally. Or the zoological republic called nigeria will be dismantle in a way that no living things will ever come out of it.

This country is not doing the right thing anymore

Animal jungle

egbul2 Contraption called nigeria is a clueless country that does not respect human rights. God has already punish the zoo called nigeria led by fulani jihadist idiotic terrorist government and that's why we biafrans were leaving from that mess called nigeria come 2023 .

😆

Okay, you Dey detain person wey Dey inside prison already 😳😳😳😳

AtoyebiPaulB Hnmm NAIJA I hail o

What is illegal about his committal to prison ? A competent High Court gave the Order .

Nigerian prison service don buy market for Inibehe hand

Omoyele Sowore should go there to help out in protest.

build neighbor ship

Omo diz lawyer use dat 1month complete for prison. We only hashtag for nothing 🤦‍♀️

Secretly leave?… Why should he leave secretly?… Is he escaping?… 🫤

Power drunk set of people.

Another new low!

Please release our barrister for us abeg!!!! The level of impunity shaaaaa

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