Imagine What Poor Ones Who Can't Afford Lawyers Are Suffering In Anambra State...

"30 lawyers set to battle Anambra gov No fewer than 30 lawyers have indicated their willingness to challenge the demolition of the UpperClass Hotel, Onitsha, owned by Chief Bonaventure Mokwe, on the orders ofthe Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi. The governor last Friday ordered the demolition following the discovery oftwo human heads and some firearmsin the hotel, located at the Old MarketRoad, Onitsha, last Thursday. The lawyers, in their separate petitions to the Inspector-General of Police and the Commissioner of Police, Anambra State, described the demolition as “hasty and a display of jungle justice.” Leading the lawyers were Dr. M. Umenweke and F. Ibeh. The lawyers, who said Mokwe was known in Onitsha, added that there was no proper investigation before the demolition took place. They said they would approach the High Court in Onitsha on Monday (today) to enforce Mokwe’s fundamental rights as guaranteed by law. In one of the petitions entitled, ‘A trump up allegation against Chief Bonaventure Mokwe,’ Kachi Bielu and Co. appealed to the police leadership to organise a full scale investigation into the matter in order to unravel the persons behind the “frame up” against their client. It read, “It is our instruction to appealto you to use your good offices to send a crack team from the Force Criminal Investigation Department or the monitoring unit and transfer the case to a police formation, where the case will be properly handled and investigated.” Also, Umenweke and Ibeh, leading over 30 other lawyers, described as stage-managed the “arrest, detentionand humiliation” of Mokwe. The lawyers alleged that some people“smuggled” the human skulls into thepremises in order to incriminate the hotel proprietor. They further demanded to know whomade the complaint to the police and why government should demolish thehotel, which they said was Mokwe’s only evidence."