{"id":71693,"date":"2020-02-10T06:02:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T05:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=71693"},"modified":"2020-02-10T06:02:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T05:02:55","slug":"serap-drags-fg-cross-river-to-ecowas-court-over-sham-trial-of-agba-jalingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/serap-drags-fg-cross-river-to-ecowas-court-over-sham-trial-of-agba-jalingo\/","title":{"rendered":"SERAP drags FG, Cross River to ECOWAS Court over &#8216;sham trial of Agba Jalingo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1658101806524079560\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the<br \/>\ngovernment of Nigeria and Cross River state government of governor Ben<br \/>\nAyade to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja &#8220;over the prolonged, arbitrary<br \/>\ndetention; unfair prosecution; persecution, and sham trial of journalist<br \/>\nAgba Jalingo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jalingo, who is the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, was arrested on August<br \/>\n22 over a report alleging that Mr Ayade diverted N500 million belonging<br \/>\nto the state.<\/p>\n<p>In the suit number ECW\/CCJ\/APP\/10\/2020 filed last week at the ECOWAS<br \/>\nCourt, SERAP is arguing that: &#8220;The sole objective of the government of<br \/>\nNigeria and the Cross River state government of governor Ben Ayade is to<br \/>\nperpetually keep Agba Jalingo in arbitrary detention and to silence him<br \/>\nsimply for expressing critical views and carrying out his legitimate job<br \/>\nas journalist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the suit: &#8220;This is not the first time the government of<br \/>\nNigeria and the Cross River state government of governor Ben Ayade have<br \/>\ntaken actions to intimidate, harass and suppress journalists through the<br \/>\ninstrumentality of trumped-up charges and use of overly broad and unjust<br \/>\nlaws, including section 24 of Nigeria&#8217;s Cybercrime Act, 2015, which<br \/>\nprovides for the offence of cyber-stalking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suit filed on SERAP&#8217;s behalf by its solicitor Kolawole Oluwadare,<br \/>\nstates: &#8220;the government of Nigeria and Cross-River state government are<br \/>\nusing vague laws that give officials massive discretion to undermine<br \/>\nhuman rights. They are punishing Agba Jalingo and other journalists and<br \/>\nsilencing them for their reporting, thereby undermining Nigerians&#8217; right<br \/>\nto information, to public participation, to open and democratic<br \/>\ngovernance in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suit read, in part: &#8220;If freedom of expression and media freedom are<br \/>\nto have true meaning in a democracy, these rights necessarily must<br \/>\ninclude the freedom to criticize the government and its functionaries.<br \/>\nIndeed, the idea of a democracy is that the people are encouraged to<br \/>\nexpress their criticisms, even their wrong-headed criticisms, of elected<br \/>\ngovernment institutions, in the expectation that this process will<br \/>\nimprove the process of government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The harassment, intimidation, unfair prosecution and arbitrary<br \/>\ndetention of Agba Jalingo simply for exercising his human rights violate<br \/>\nNigeria&#8217;s international human rights obligations, including under the<br \/>\nInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African<br \/>\nCharter on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights to which the country is a state<br \/>\nparty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right and full enjoyment<br \/>\nof this right is central to achieving individual freedom and to<br \/>\ndeveloping democracy. It is not only the cornerstone of democracy, but<br \/>\nindispensable to a thriving civil society&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In circumstances of public debate concerning public figures in the<br \/>\npolitical domain and public institutions, the value placed by human<br \/>\nrights treaties upon uninhibited expression is particularly high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government of Nigeria and the Cross-River state government of<br \/>\ngovernor Ben Ayade have via the charges of terrorism and treason and<br \/>\ndenial of bail to Agba Jalingo, violated and continued to breach his<br \/>\nhuman rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SERAP contends that Agba Jalingo is being unfairly prosecuted because<br \/>\nof his reporting in his online news outlet, Cross River Watch, which<br \/>\nalleged that the Cross Rivers State Governor diverted the sum of N500<br \/>\nMillion, belonging to the Cross-River Micro Finance Bank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On 22nd August 2019, the Nigeria Police, through its special<br \/>\nanti-robbery squad arrested Agba Jalingo. On 23rd August 2019, Mr.<br \/>\nJalingo was transferred to a detention facility run by the anti-cult and<br \/>\nanti-kidnapping police in Calabar, the capital of Nigeria&#8217;s southern<br \/>\nCross River state and was held there for days before his arraignment on<br \/>\n31st August, 2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SERAP is seeking the following reliefs:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 \u00a0 A DECLARATION that the actions by the government of Nigeria and<br \/>\nthe Cross River state government of governor Ben Ayade to continue to<br \/>\narbitrarily detain and unfairly prosecute Agba Jalingo using the<br \/>\nCybercrimes Act, sections 41 &amp; 59 of Nigeria&#8217;s Criminal Code Act and<br \/>\nsections 1 &amp; 17 (2)(a)&amp;(b) of the Terrorism (Prevention, Amendment) Act,<br \/>\nviolate his human rights, as guaranteed under the International Covenant<br \/>\non Civil and Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and<br \/>\nPeoples&#8217; Rights<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 \u00a0 A DECLARATION that the arbitrary detention and unfair prosecution<br \/>\nof Agba Jalingo by the government of Nigeria and the Cross River state<br \/>\ngovernment of governor Ben Ayade is illegal and unlawful, as it amounts<br \/>\nto breaches of Nigerian international obligations to respect, protect,<br \/>\npromote and fulfil the rights to freedom of expression and information<br \/>\nand media freedom, guaranteed under the International Covenant on Civil<br \/>\nand Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples&#8217;<br \/>\nRights<br \/>\n3.\u00a0 \u00a0 AN ORDER directing the government of Nigeria and the Cross-River<br \/>\nstate government of governor Ben Ayade to immediately and<br \/>\nunconditionally release Agba Jalingo and drop all charges against him,<br \/>\nconsistent with Nigeria&#8217;s international human rights obligations under<br \/>\nthe International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African<br \/>\nCharter on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights<br \/>\n4.\u00a0 \u00a0 AN ORDER directing directing the government of Nigeria and the<br \/>\nCross-River state government of governor Ben Ayade and\/or their agents<br \/>\nto provide Agba Jalingo with effective remedies and reparation,<br \/>\nincluding adequate compensation, restitution, satisfaction and<br \/>\nguarantees of non-repetition<br \/>\n5.\u00a0 \u00a0 FOR SUCH FURTHER orders as the Honorable Court may deem fit to<br \/>\nmake in the circumstances of this suit.<\/p>\n<p>No date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1658102247172836830\" class=\"mail-message expanded\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the government of Nigeria and Cross River state government of governor Ben Ayade to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja &#8220;over the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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