#TheTrialOfSegunOnibiyo resumed b4 the courts of the #VileLittleMan today in Kaduna. At the trial today, the prosecution called its 2nd Witness (PW2). He turned out also to be their last witness.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
PW2 showed to to tender a record, purportedly of the incitement by @SegunMGOnibiyo. Defence objected that their print out can't be admitted in court unless they can provide source. They didn't. Rather, prosecution claimed Segun made the statement & wanted it admitted as 2ndary ev
Court ruled to admit the evidence but on cross-exam, PW2 cld not show where the record he tendered affected the person or office of the #VileLittleMan. He was also unable to show support the claim that @SegunMGOnibiyo was a source for any such statement.
Essentially, at the end of the testimony of PW2, the prosecution has not bn able to prove any of the elements of what the allege or show that @SegunMGOnibiyo was involved in any way. Yet, the #PowerLust of the #VileLittleMan will not be slaked.
After the PW2, the prosecution closed its case.
#TheTrialOfSegunOnibiyo is adjourned to 29 March, 2022, on which date, Counsel on behalf of @SegunMGOnibiyo is likely to enter a #NoCaseSubmission. In any other court, that wld end it. But in the court of the #VileLittleMan....
#TheTrialOfSegunOnibiyo is adjourned to 29 March, 2022, on which date, Counsel on behalf of @SegunMGOnibiyo is likely to enter a #NoCaseSubmission. In any other court, that wld end it. But in the court of the #VileLittleMan....
1 stunning thing about this case is how #Nigerian Union of Journalists, #NUJ; & Nigerian Guild of Editors have studiously #Unlooked the manifest persecution of a committed journalist. It tells us something about the malign influence of corrupt power....
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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