Femi Aborisade's Blog

On Monday, 29th October 2018 certain segments of the security forces massacred at least 39 people at the army road block on the road from Nyanya to Abuja.  A peaceful, unarmed demonstration of Shi’ite supporters of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) were gunned down in the road from the popular residential areas of Nyanya, Maraba and Karu to the centre of Abuja.

The Executive Order No. 6 on Preservation of Suspicious Assets Connected With Corruption and Other Relevant Offences, is, in my humble opinion, unconstitutional to the extent that it seeks to constrain the authority and independence of the judiciary in dealing with cases before the court as the court deems fit under existing laws and principles. To this extent, the Executive Order No. 6 carries the virus and wears the garb of an ouster of court's jurisdiction.

WebLink: http://worldstreetjournal.org.ng/2018/08/27/aborisade-chides-nba-for-keeping-mute-when-buhari-was-assaulting-rule-of-law/ Posted by:  Editor in  Breaking news ,  Business ,  News ,  Nigeria August 27, 2018 0   39 Views A human rights activist and legal practitioner, Femi Aborisade has lampooned the Nigeria Bar Association for keeping quiet when President Mohammadu Buhari was usurping the function of the judiciary by redefining rule of law to justify his continued disobedience of court orders and deprive Nigerians of their inalienable right to freedom under the guise of national security.

Link: https://independent.ng/rule-of-law-overrides-national-security-lawyers-reply-buhari/amp/

19 th  August 2018 Press Statement DEMOLITION OF YINKA AYEFELE’S N800M MUSIC HOUSE IS TYRANNICAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND UNLAWFUL The demolition by the Oyo State Government of the Music House, opposite ConOil, Lagos Bypass, Challenge, Ibadan, which is owned by Mr. Yinka Ayefele in the morning hours of today, 19 th day of August 2018 is  not only tyrannical, it is also unconstitutional and unlawful from the point of view of the Suit instituted by Yinka Ayefele challenging the threatened demolition .

The detention of Mr. Samuel Ogundipe, a Premium Times Security Sector Reporter at the cell of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Abuja, on 14 August 2018, allegedly for reporting the tentative Report of investigations and findings by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) on the siege on the National Assembly by the State Security

By femi aborisade aborisadefemi@gmail.com Introduction I thank the organizers of the monthly political education for their consistency in organizing regular political education programme and for inviting me to participate.