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ADE ADESOMOJU highlights how disregardfor procedural law and safeguards have turned some chambers of justice into institutions helping police and some other law enforcement agencies to trample on citizens’ rights.
Life was not rosy but was bubbling with hope for MrAmbrose Obafe and his aged mother who were living together and eking out a living as subsistence farmers in Obiaruku in the Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State, one of the states in the oil rich Niger Delta.
The event of November 5, 2017 changed things from bad to worse for them.
That day, Obafe, then 37 years old, was arrested for beingpart of an armed robbery operation that took place in the town five month searlier.