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Speaker 1: Nigeria’s superstar actress who has been in the news since

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she got married to a man many said was old

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enough to be her grandfather, Regina Daniels, on Sunday early

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morning night revealed that she was married to the Nigeria

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Senator representing Delta North, Prince Sheidu n Woko aka ned

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en Woko as a miner at the age of seventeen.

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Her statement that allegedly accused the serving Senator ned en

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Woko of a parent serious crime of child abuse, raping

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of minor, child molestation and forced child marriage. Because Nigeria

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constitution stipulates eighteen years of age for someone to be

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considered old enough to be able to consent to marriage

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or sexual activities, and any sexual activity with a minor,

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the older person is presumed, according to the Nigeria Constitution,

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as a criminal suspect who took advantage of the minor

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and liable for child abuse and other related crimes. Although

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Senator ned en Woko is a Muslim by religion, a

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careful study of the night Nigeria laws indicated that Islamic

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law is only binding on Muslim and Muslim and not

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Muslim and Christian or people from other religions. We are

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also aware that both of them are from Delta State

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in the South South geopolitical zone of Nigeria that is

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predominantly Christians, that practices eighteen years as a statutory and

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customary age requirement for someone to be considered old enough

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to give his or her voluntary consent for marriage and

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other forms of sexual activities. This last month October, there

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was a heated debate at the Nigeria Red Chamber of

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the National Assembly where the senators bemoan the high rates

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of child abuse and defilement of miners in Nigeria and

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recommended a stiffer punishment of life imprisonment for offenders. Specifically,

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according to the Daily Post newspaper publication on October twenty first,

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twenty twenty five, the Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District,

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Adams Oshio Money, said, defilement of a minor should be

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different from that of rape. For a miner. This is

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a kid that is not capable of consenting or otherwise

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and whose life can be destroyed almost permanently. Those involved

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in defilement should suffer great punishment. I propose twenty years

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imprisonment for whoever is found culpable for this crime without

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any option of fine, because I have seen cases of

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boys and girls under five and ten years old being

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defiled by adults, he said. The proposal was however, defeated

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by the majority in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly.

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Following the defeat of the bill, Senator Mohammada Damu Alliero

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Keby Central proposed stiffer punishment of life imprisonment for any

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man or woman found wanting in the Act. I want

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to propose that the punishment for defilement for miners be

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life imprisonment, whether it’s a man or woman found culpable.

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According to Regina Daniels, before she became the wife of

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Senator ned en Woco, she was not into drugs or

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a drug addict. She alleged that it was Senator ned

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en Woko who influenced and forced her into the habits

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of taking drugs in order for she to be able

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to satisfy the senator’s sexual desire or meet up with

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his sexual pleasure. Verbatim, Regina Daniels said, dearest ex husband,

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thanks for breaking the crown you put on my head.

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No one knew as like we did, and I trusted

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you with all of me, even with my sex stape,

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which I pray never sees the light of day. Foolish me.

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When I married you at seventeen, was I on drugs?

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I thank God for time. My name is ruined for now,

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but I will rewrite my story. That narrative will be

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dead and gone. Now that I’ve let the one thing

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you had on me out, what else? It’s time to

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fight with all of me in court. I’m not backing

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down now. Ned How could you lie so openly and

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without even small remorse. You know my family has absolutely

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nothing to do with this. You have always tried to

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cut them off because of the bond we share, and

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now you are trying to make them look bad for

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no reason. Fine, I did drugs, so what is that

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even the issue between us? The moment we had a fight,

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you rushed to the public shouting drugs, drugs, drugs, because

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you knew it would make a perfect story for the media,

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something dramatic enough to distract everyone from the real issue.

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You want to find a reason to arrest everyone around

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me so that I will have no one left beside me,

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no friend, no support, no safe place to turn to. Then,

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when I’m completely isolated and broken. I will be forced

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to come back to you because I will have nowhere

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else to go. That has always been your strategy, break

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people down, make them weak and powerless, and then have

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your way with them. But guess what, it’s not going

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to work this time, not any more. You say you

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want me to go for rehab, but you are the

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the same ned who always wanted me high because, in

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your words, lem sexier when I’m high. You like me

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that way because it made me wild and romantic, exactly

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how you wanted me to be. Why don’t you also

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tell them how you force yourself on me whenever I

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say no? Why don’t you tell them how you lock

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me up, seize my phones, and suddenly declare me mentally

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unstable the moment I say I no longer want to

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be in this relationship, But once I change my mind

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just to get out of that locked room, suddenly LEM

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fine again, LEM no longer mentally unstable and apparently not

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in need of rehab anymore. Why don’t you also tell

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them that all your wives and ex wives are on drugs?

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And can you be kind enough to explain to them

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why that is? Why don’t you also tell them how

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you lock me up and doctors to inject me with

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drugs meant for people with bipolar disorder. Why don’t you

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tell them how you take my phones for weeks because

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you hate that I talk to my family a lot.

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You have never seen me act incoherent, stumble, or lose

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control sugg Just stop. Every problem we have had started

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when I no longer wanted you, whether sober or even high.

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Stop using the drugs narrative to create distraction. Tell people

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the truth. I understand, Shah. You are feeling rejected and hurt,

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and you are struggling to make peace with the fact

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that it’s all over. Let me make this very clear.

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No matter how much you think you spent on me,

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it can never equal the value of the time I

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gave you, my prime years, my energy, and the career

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opportunities I sacrificed while being with you. And for the record,

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I would have filed for divorce long ago if there

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was ever a legal marriage between us. We were never

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married in any court of law and no documents were signed.

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Leave me alone, ned, Marriage is not by force. Love

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is not force. Stop trying to control what no longer

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belongs to you.

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Speaker 2: Gwini Binim serving Nigeria Senator, Prince Sheenidu en Woko, well

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known as Nedo en Woko, has listed and narrated some

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of the things he has done for the family of

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his absconded fourth wife, Regina Daniels, particularly stating that his

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mother in law, Regina Daniel’s mother Rita, received one hundred

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and twenty five million nyers from.

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Speaker 1: Him in the past two years alone, apparently challenging the

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mother in law earlier media statement that none of the

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senator’s children looked like a child of a billionaire and

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that she on her own spent her hard earned money

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to support the senator’s election, in addition to the fifty

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thousand dollars Regina Daniels gave to the sixty five years

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old Muslim husband from the southern part of Nigeria. Outside

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that Senator ned en Woko apparently tried to explain why

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his brother in law, Sami was arrested and detained after

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his wife, Regina Daniels, ran away from her matrimonial home

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and decided to end the marriage with the serving Nigeria

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senator on the ground of domestic violence, intimidation and oppression

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that made her looks like nothing in the house of

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the senator, who she swiftly replied yesterday that ned en

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Woco never married her legally and she was apparently still

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a minor at age seventeen when the Nigeria serving senator

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allegedly forced her into early marriage. Details of Regina Daniel’s

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statements and the legal implications will be reported and published

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in our next news report for proper clarification and understanding

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so that appropriate government bodies like the Nigeria Police Force

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will be held accountable to take decisive action for the

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protection of girl child against sexual abuse, modestation, raping of

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minor and child marriage. According to the serving Senator ned

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en Woko, who attached two videos to his statements of Sammy,

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Regina Daniel’s brother having misunderstanding with some of his domestic

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staff and the policemen at his house. These videos show

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Sammy Regina’s brother repeatedly coming to my home and harassing

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my children and domestic staff, especially whenever I was not around.

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His visits were often aggressive and disruptive. This is someone

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I sponsored through his last two years at the University

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of Ipoma. I bought his musical instruments, rented and furnished

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a flat for him in Abouja. In addition to the

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house I bought for Regina in a saber before our

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marriage for the use of all of them. I also

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routinely provided allowances to all members of the family, including

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her mother Rita Daniel. Indeed, in the last two years,

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I have a record of transferring one hundred and twenty

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five million nairahs to her alone. When Regina started her rehabilitation,

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there was a clear instruction by the doctors to strictly

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restrict people, especially her enablers, having access to her. The

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therapy was arranged after I noticed troubling changes in her

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behavior linked to her dependence on certain illegal substances, including

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going for forty eight hours without sleeping and eating every

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two hours. Unfortunately, Sammy, Destiny, some of their siblings, together

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with a few of their friends, notably Sonya Uchay Montana

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among others, constantly defied those instructions. They would come into

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the house uninvited, sometimes forcing their way in, and would

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bring her the same drugs she was being treated for.

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Instead of helping her recover, they encouraged her addiction and

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completely frustrated the efforts of the doctors and therapists working

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with her. It is important to note that Lawrence, Sammy,

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his girlfriend Enk Destiny, Sonya, and others also took the

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same drugs as Regina. In fact, Lawrence and Sammy were

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the ones who first introduced and supplied these drugs to her.

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They would weekly involved in the habit themselves, and rather

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than helping her get better, they kept drawing her back

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into the same destructive lifestyle. I do not drink calcohol

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nor smoke. In fact, I am a vegetarian, so I

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found these characters and behaviors reprehensible and totally unacceptable. Just

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four weeks ago, I woke up around five a m.

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And realized that Regina was in my room and on

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the phone. She was clearly high, and she knows that

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I do not want her in my room in that condition.

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I asked her to go to her room and she

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told me that Sammy’s girlfriend was in her room. I

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was alarmed and angry because that girl should never have

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been in my house, let alone around Regina, since she

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is one of the enablers who constantly bring her the

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substances she is addicted too. I told Regina that the

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girl had to leave, and one of my drivers dropped

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her off Thirteen minutes later, Sammy came to my house

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shouting and demanding that I come downstair face him. He

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said I had no right to ask his girlfriend to

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leave my house. He was ranting and threatening, waking up everyone,

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including the children. I eventually went downstairs and had to

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instruct the security to physically push him out of my compound.

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The level of audacity was shocking. Without the influence of drugs,

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could he have been so bold and disrespectful. They did

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not stop there. On several occasions they verbally assaulted and

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intimidated the police offices stationed at the house for security.

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The offices were simply following instructions to restrict access for

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the sake of Regina’s recovery, but Sammy and his group

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would insult and threaten them. Whenever Regina wanted to go

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out and I was not around, she would become extremely

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hostile toward the police and domestic staff. She would shout, threaten,

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and use abusive words, insisting that she must leave the

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house no matter what. There were at least two serious

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incidents where she left home in the evening and did

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not return until the next day. The first incident, she

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returned in the morning around nine a m. When I

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asked where she had been all night, she casually said

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she was at a night club. When I questioned why

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she would stay out all night, ignoring my calls and

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refuting to answer messages, her response was, you were not

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my father, so don’t ask me where I was. I

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found out that she was with Cassie and that Cassie

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was staying in Regina’s house in Life Camp. Cassie is

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the chemist and supplier of the group. I had to

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go to Life Camp at six p m. To ask

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her to leave with her around Regina. The therapy became

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a joke. On another occasion, on the kid’s birthday, to

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be precise, I returned home with the kids because Regina

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said she would stay with her Nollywood friends for dinner.

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She didn’t return until five p m. The next day.

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I took so much nonsense just for the sake of

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the kids. I also knew that drugs had a lot

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to do with it. As to her reasons for continuing

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with drugs, she will always say, just like her mother,

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that it is a celebrity lifestyle. They will always mention

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two well known pop stars. Imagine the pain of a

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husband trying to help his wife recover, only to have

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the process sabotaged by her siblings and friends, the very

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people who should have been supporting her healing. This pattern

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of behavior made it almost impossible for her to recover.

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smuggling in the same drugs she was fighting to give up.

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The entire household lived intention and fear because of the

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constant harassment, interference, and disregard for boundaries. It will be

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interesting to know her reasons for the violent behavior in

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the house. The day that Sammy and other siblings came

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and attacked my staff and security, taking Regina away after

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doing a video, which they posted the next day. Why

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did they do that video? Why did they post it?

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They simply planned and orchestrated a script, all in my absence,

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regardless of the fact that my kids were there. They

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took away many things from my house, including one of

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my phones, money, and many other items. Everything that happened

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that day was in my house in my absence. Nobody

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was beaten, and nobody could have contemplated that. It is

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blatantly false to say that I sent thugs to beat

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Regina in another house. The video that went viral was

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filmed entirely in front of my house by Regina’s sister

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and her friend. It was a pure Lollywood scenario in

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front of my property. In my absence, Sammy should have

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a life of his own outside of Regina and focus

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on building his career independently. When his brother, Lawrence went

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to London a couple of years ago to do his

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master’s degree, I personally sponsored him with seventy five thousand

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dollars for tuition and upkeep. I sent him abroad partly

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to help him escape the toxic environment of drug exposure

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and bad influence around him at the time. Out of fairness,

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I offered Sammy the same opportunity, but he declined, insisting

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he wanted to remain in Nigeria to pursue his music career. Unfortunately,

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he has since been arrested several times by both the

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police and the EFCC. His behavior has become increasingly violent

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and unstable. What he needs now is total rehabilitation and

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professional guidance, Otherwise his aggression and self destructive tendencies will

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only worsened.

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Speaker 2: INGI BRINGI Indigenous.

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Speaker 1: People of Biafra IPOB has said that the detained Biafra

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Republic Agitation leader Marzi Nandi Kanu has not forfeited his

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rights to defend himself before the Federal High Court sitting

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in Abuja, after the Judge, Justice James Omaitosho ruled on

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Friday and stated that Namdi Carnu rights to enter defense

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has been forfeited and thereafter fixed November twentieth, twenty twenty

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five for judgment as Namdi Carnu was seen to have

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staged the defensive confrontation with aggressive loud voice challenging the

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court that the federal government allegations against him has no

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legal basis or any aspect of the Nigeria law that

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backs such allegations. This barrister, a lawyer Gimcorp, the organizing

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lawyer for the detained Biaffor Republic Agitation leader, had on

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Wednesday said in a written and video statement posted on

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his ex social media account that Namdiknu is competent enough

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to defend himself, especially given the political elements in the case,

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which he understands better than any lawyer. In a press

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release issued and made available on Friday, ipob In the

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statement signed by Emma Powerful said it strongly condemns the

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new round of fake news being pushed by certain Nigerian media.

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The false claim that Marzi Namdykru has forfeited his right

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to defense in the ongoing trial before Justice James Kolawola

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Amitasho of the Federal High Court, Abuja is a desperate

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lineman to mislead the public and cover up an a

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legal process. Let the truth be clear, Marzi Namdykru has

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not forfeited anything. What is happening in court is not

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a fair trial but a political show.

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Speaker 3: Up.

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Speaker 1: Till today, neither Justice Omitasho nor Chief Adding Boy Eggbera

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Womelo San, the government’s lead prosecutor, has been able to

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point to any valid existing law that Marzi Nandykru supposedly broke.

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Their silence speaks volumes. It is a quiet confession that

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this entire case has no legal foundation. The core question

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remains simple. Can anyone be prosecuted or convicted without a

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living law that clearly defines the offense and prescribes a punishment.

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The answer is written in section thirty six twelve of

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Nigeria’s nineteen ninety nine Constitution. A person shall not be

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convicted of a criminal offense unless that offense is defined

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and the penalty therefore is prescribed in a written law.

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This means you cannot charge or convict anyone unless the

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law exists in black and white. No judge or lawyer

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can twist that. The Supreme Court has said the same

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thing many times in ALC versus Fagbemi nineteen sixty one,

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AG Federation versus Abubaka two thousand and seven and NNPC

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versus Fawahinmi nineteen ninety eight. Where there is no law,

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there can be no trial, no conviction and no justice.

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But instead of obeying this clear rule, Justice Omatosho keeps

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trying to force Marzi Namdi Karnut to open his defense,

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as if pretending that a valid case will make it real.

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This is wrong. It’s an assuse of power and a

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clear violation of fair hearing. You cannot force a man

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and to defend himself against a ghost charge. So we

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ask again under which law is Marzi Namdykru being tried,

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What act of the National Assembly defines his supposed defense,

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and by what right does a judge compel a defense

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where no offense in law exists. Nigerians deserve honest answers,

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not propaganda. Everyone should read Section thirty six twelve and

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know their rights. It protects all of us from tyranny.

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Any court that ignores the Constitution becomes part of the problem,

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not the solution. Ipob fully supports Marsi Namdiicru’s stand in

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refusing to legitimize this illegality by entering a defense. The

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truth is unshakable. No valid law supports this case, none whatsoever. Now,

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Justice Omatosho says he will give judgment without even allowing

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final addresses from both sides. That’s laughable and unheard of

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in criminal law. If that is truly his position, then

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maybe he needs to go back to law school and

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learn what due process means. The directives of the.

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Speaker 4: Supreme Court judgment in fr n v.

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Speaker 1: Now the calm.

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Speaker 4: In super number sc slash c R slash one three

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sixty one slash to zero tuty deliver on the fifteenth

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of December twenty twenty three, when relieves I’m.

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Speaker 1: Staking my lord a less.

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Speaker 4: Extending from the records of this vatorable part being for

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what a fee of nott givinty entered by myself the defendant.

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He had the atticant on the twenty ninth day of

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March twenty twenty five, the same having been obtained on

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that reception commerci and there violation of section that is

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sixty six A of the Constitution of the February Public

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Governageria nineteen nineteen nine, as amended, and in defiance of

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the Supreme Courts binding directing in from the Lander Panel,

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I’m asking my Lord for an author setting aside of

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proceedings conducted pursuant to the same defective plea, including that

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not limited to the schedling of defense witness summons and

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twevel dates, the same being founded on a Monty ammunition,

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and also declaring that the seventh count charge data twenty

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nine March twenty twenty five this most no triable offencement

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to learn.

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Speaker 1: Having been founded on.

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Speaker 4: Reviewed statutes memority the Aposent Conventional Amendment Act of twenty

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thirteen repealed, while the Vision Convention and Provision Act of

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twenty twenty two and the Coustoms and Excise Migments Act

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CAC forty five l FN two thousand and four repealed

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by the Lagua Customs Services Act of twenty twenty three,

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and then flirt right disobedience of the Supreme Court order

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for amendment, and are starting out the Chinesese Centralty from

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winter to division, descend them incompetent and ford are in issue.

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And by the directing the immediate flat of the thim

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from custody. There are being more very charge sending before.

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Speaker 1: This very course and such are that w was like

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this by on my own call them kick from.

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Speaker 4: Just the name in the circumstances, which was noted by

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around the pile of.

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Speaker 2: I sip.

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Speaker 5: And you wonder where I’ve got costumers?

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Speaker 1: Use less wonder what justice leeds not?

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Speaker 3: Don’t know what justice means? This less black, no, no

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no justice.

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Speaker 4: Your pros says you cannot tight anybody or less before reason.

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Speaker 3: Show me the law, show anything law. I won’t talk

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to me.

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Speaker 1: Now tell you the law.

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Speaker 3: Okay, don’t don’t talk.

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Speaker 4: Don’t don’t, don’t, don’t like, don’t like rubbish rubbish this

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less people.

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Speaker 3: You don’t know law.

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Speaker 4: You don’t know law like your own constitions.

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Speaker 5: You don’t don’t you expect you to transient, You don’t

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expect well, well we’re not goda nonsense.

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Speaker 1: You think you’re better.

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Speaker 5: Ask you to journal and journey. You are dreaming that

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you are dreaming I’m telling you that you’re dreaming, says

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you can’t not tight.

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Speaker 1: And you.

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Speaker 3: Good morning. Well what what happened in court today, Uh,

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for me continues to be travesty of justice. I’ve always

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said it that Uh in Nigeria, it appeared to be

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two sets of rules, one for the eyeble man and

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another for the other Nigerians.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: This is only what I saw in court today.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 3: First of all, my name is honorable be A Gocha

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represent the people of Iguano who might have not and

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who might have sought for her consistency. I am the

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primary representative for Masi Nambicana. So I’m going to speak

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to you as a layman. I’m not a lawyer.

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Speaker 2: Lady, bringin you nie in the mortgage is aware. Lady,

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bringin you nie in the mortgage is aware.