Tarila Okah, daughter of Mr. Charles Okah, currently remanded at Kuje Prison and standing tribulation afore s the Federal High Court in Abuja for the 2010 Independence Day bomb incident, has indited to President Muhammadu Buhari, asking him to intervene in her father's matter. In the letter, made available to SaharaReporters, Tarila wants Buhari to view her father's situation as an iniquity to him.
In the letter, made available to SaharaReporters, Tarila wants Buhari to view her father's situation as an iniquity to him.
"Mr. President, I am inditing this letter principally to draw your attention, the entire people of Nigeria, and members of the international community to what I perceive as an iniquity being wilfully and malevolently meted to my father by the Nigerian state. "Within the last 10 months, perturbing media reports about his endeavor to commit suicide at the Federal High Court in Abuja on October 6, 2015 and his failing health are woeful reminders of the rigorous authenticity of my father's frustration with the judicial system in Nigeria, which is notorious for elastic tribulations that can drag on for years on end and wear out all parties," she indited.
She repined about her father's protracted tribulation occasioned either by the absence of the presiding tribulation judge on account of attending a conference or for other reasons. These, she verbally expressed, brings disrepute to Nigeria's country's equity system.
"For instance, the prosecutor, Alex Izinyon, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, failed to attend one of the tribulations on a date that had been concurred upon beforehand, instead opting to attend his child's graduation ceremony abroad.
"With all due deference, Mr. President, no democratic regime anywhere in the world, including Canada where I currently reside, would treat a prisoner's endeavor at suicide as well as the prisoner's failing health, with disdain.
"Such a peculiar prisoner's case ought to be concluded expeditiously by the judiciary.
"Alternatively, such a prisoner of conscience, like my father, should be granted bail.
"However, from all denotements, the Nigerian regime is pellucidly callous to his plight," she further indited.
Tarila verbally expressed she has with verbalized many Nigerian lawyers, who have adequately edified her that her Section 162 of the incipient Malefactor Equity Administration Law of the country, her father is entitled to bail, having spent over three years in confinement custody. In spite of this, she verbalized, Equity Gabriel Kolawole has twice overruled her father's applications for bail. Even then, Tarila integrated, the tribulation has been crawling. Tarila noted that Equity Kolawole, in 2011, facilely granted bail to Senator Ali Ndume, who was standing tribulation for terrorism as an alleged sponsor of Boko Haram.
"Today, after being re-elected on the platform of your party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ndume is the Majority Bellwether of Nigeria's upper legislative chamber, the Senate, while my father (who is equipollently as consequential to society) is still languishing in confinement as an inmate awaiting tribulation virtually six years after he was first apprehended on October 16, 2010, on suspicion of being "Jomo Gbomo," the spokesman for the Kineticism for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)," her letter verbalized.
Tarila withal repined about the position of the media on her father's culpability otherwise in the Independence Day bomb incident. At first, she verbalized, Okah was inculpated of being the spokesperson of MEND. Later, she integrated, she was painted as an accomplice to the alleged malefaction. "After the media and the Nigerian regime realised that 'Jomo Gbomo' was still relinquishing verbal expressions on behalf of MEND, even as my father was firmly held in custody, now, he is inculpated of being the mastermind," she verbalized.
Tarila verbalized, thus far, the prosecution has relied heavily on 'witnesses,' all of whom have provided contradictory verbalizations under cross-examination. She pointed out that at a recent court sitting, a witness from the Department of State Security (DSS), who claimed to be a malefaction scene investigator, admitted that no evidence was accumulated at the malefaction scene. However, another witness who allegedly 'sold' a Mazda car to the second defendant, admitted under cross-examination that the first time he set his ocular perceivers on the verbalized car (Exhibit 2) was at the premises of the DSS Abuja Headquarters.
"Without prejudice to his perpetual tribulation afore Equity Gabriel Kolawole, I veraciously believe that my father is inculpable of the malefactions alleged against him. Over the six-year period of his incarceration and tribulation, his businesses which employed many Nigerians have collapsed; his family is in disarray.
"Years apart, especially under such circumstances, often dissolves the emotional bonds between a husband and his wife, and for my much younger siblings who have now spent more time without their father, there are virtually no emotional bonds to be dissolved," she verbalized.
Tarila withal told Buhari that she will be getting espoused in a few weeks, an event that will take place without her father's involution. Tarila verbally expressed she feels a cumulation of jubilance and pain as this day approaches kenning that her father is alive but in captivity.
"Pellucidly, my siblings and I are being penalized vicariously by the Nigerian state for malefactions allegedly committed by our father, which have not been proven beyond plausible doubt by a court of competent jurisdiction.
"Haplessly, in Nigeria, the mere act of filing even trumped-up charges carries along with it a vigorous postulation of censurability, which has led to my father's conviction in the court of public opinion and has additionally led to the abuse of his fundamental human rights.
"I ken that some Nigerians, on reading this open letter, will assail me for daring to appeal for my father's liberation, but my message to those compatriots is simple: it is high time we fixated on finding the authentic perpetrators," she challenged.
Tarila concluded by calling in Buhari to take his administration' fight against corruption beyond financial malefactions to judicial misdemeanours.
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