funsho williams again justice denied

Again, has the judiciary - dubbed appropriately as the last hope of the common man - lived up to the public expectations? Could it have in the course of trial insisted that the right things be done in order to get justice out in the matter? Or is the court simply bound by the obviously ramshackle evidence presented before it, and upon which it can only dismiss the prosecution’s case?

  This is the time Nigeria, particularly the law enforcers and the legal profession to address these posers. Not only is the country pushing its luck too far in failing to punish crime appropriately, it is also rapidly embracing complete anarchy. For a start, an investigation that took seven years is faulty and is prone to producing unreliable facts and evidence, having regard to fading human memories, natural occurrences like death, and illness, as well as distractions by stakeholders.


  It is also time to address the huge shortfall in the police, with a view to making them more effective. Which is why the case for all to embrace state and community policing cannot be better made. What has happened in the Funsho Williams’ case is again a clarion call for a restructuring of the country to produce a properly functioning federal state.