Humanity Watch

A Ghanaian man pretending to be a lawyer has been arrested after he used wrong legal language in court. The suspect, Emmanuel Marfo, 23, appeared at the Koforidua Circuit Court, on Friday as a defence attorney in a civil dispute between Peter Amanor and Hanson Annoh, who alleged that Amanor failed to pay him, money he lent him. According to Ebenezer Tetteh, Public Relations Officer for the Police in the Eastern Region, Judge Evelyn Asamoah, who presided over the case, became suspicious when Marfo (who was defending Amanor) used an incorrect legal language in court. The judge proceeded to ask Marfo where he attended school. He replied that he went to the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration’s School of Law. He was then asked to furnish proof, but he could provide none. Asamoah ordered for his arrest. Initial police investigations revealed that Marfo never took nor passed the bar examination. Marfo is currently facing two counts of deceit of court and ...

A high court in Owerri on Friday evening released, unconditionally, the 114 women suspected to be members of the outlawed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra. The women were remanded by a magistrate’s court in Owerri on Monday and Thursday respectively, after they were arrested and arraigned by the Police for demanding to know the whereabouts of missing IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kalu. The bail application filed by the lead counsel to the women, Ejiofor Uche, was not opposed, as the Police had no representation in court. The court had granted the bail application, and freed the women unconditionally. Their release sparked off wild jubilation on the court premises and within Owerri, the state capital. The Police prosecutor, Theaddus Okay, told our correspondent that the Police had no representation because the matter had been referred to the state ministry of justice for legal counsel and decision. He said that the Police had no powers in whatever decision that was taken subsequently...

An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Thursday ordered the  remand of a herdsman, Jaye Mohammadu, in Agodi Prisons for allegedly killing his mate over N2,000. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Abdulateef Adebisi, said that Mohammadu, 18, should be remanded at the prisons, pending an advice from the Oyo State Director of Public Prosecutions. Mohammadu’s plea was not taken by the court, when his Counsel, Mr Oritshuwa Uwawah, appeared for him. The magistrate, however, adjourned the case until Sept. 25 for mention. The Police Prosecutor, Cpl. Ojo Bewaji, told the court that Mohammadu and the deceased, Gambo Tashi, 22, worked as herdsmen for one Alhaji Kata at Aba Olode, Kishi in Oyo State. Bewaji alleged that the accused unlawfully caused the death of Mohammadu by attacking him with cutlass. The prosecutor said that on July 30, Mohammadu and Tashi retired to the camp from the bush after the day’s work. “The defendant allegedly accused Tashi of stealing his ...

A 28-year-old Uber driver, Sunday Omale, was on Tuesday arraigned before Magistrate E. Kubeinje of an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly refusing to pay a commercial sex-worker. Omale, who resides at Alhaja Elesin Street, Ogudu, is facing assault occasioning bodily harm after having three rounds of sex with one Precious Mustapha. The accused was alleged to have refused paying her N6, 000 being her service charge. The prosecutor, Sgt. Lucky Ihiehie, told the court that the accused committed the offence on July 29 at Ogudu area of the state. Iheihei said Omale allegedly assaulted the complainant after mutually having canal knowledge of her. The prosecutor said that the 28-year-old complainant suspected to be a commercial sex-worker had reported the matter to the police. Iheihei said that the complainant had met Omale at the African Shrine, Ikeja, where she charged him N6, 000 after having three rounds of sex with her. The prosecution said an argume...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday insisted that the Inspector-General of Police, must arrest and produce the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu in court on August 16, 2018. Justice Stephen Pam gave the order following the absence of Yakubu’s team of lawyers in court and there was no explanation as to why they were absent. “At the commencement of proceedings, counsel to the applicant, Kanayo Okafor, informed the court that the Court of Appeal on Monday asked the court to stay proceedings in the matter. “The counsel to the respondent is not in court and no reason has been given for their absence. “The contempt proceedings and the bench warrant issued for the arrest of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman still subsists, the I-G is to carry out the order of the arrest of Yakubu. “This court being a court of record has nothing to prove that there was an order for stay from the Court of Appeal.” However, while the judge was...