There was a massive protest by
hundreds of youths in Jos, the Plateau State capital, very close to the State
High Court where Senator Jonah Jang was due to be arraigned.
The youth under the aegis of the
Jang Support Group said they were protesting what they termed, “jungle justice”
meted on the Senator.
They queried why the senator was
detained for a whole week, when he has been faithful in honouring all
invitations by the EFCC.
The youths held placards with
inscriptions such as, “Free Jang”, “Jang is the Messiah of the Middle Belt”,
among others.
According to Comrade Jelani,
“Jang’s detention is simply a witch-hunt to derail his plans to contest the
2019 presidential elections”.
The youth also accused the
current APC administration of injustice.
However, a Jos State High Court
has fixed Wednesday, 16th May, 2018, for the arraignment of the former
Governor.
Senator Jang has since Monday
last week been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on
12 count charges against him over an alleged fraud amounting to about N6.3bn.
The lead Counsel to the EFCC,
Rotimi Jacob (SAN) had filed a motion of exparte seeking the relief against
Senator Jonah Jang and others and however applied for an adjournment to
Wednesday so as to allow the EFCC complete all the logistics to arraign Senator
Jang.
The presiding Judge, Justice
Daniel Longji of Jos High Court No:5 granted the relief for motion exparte and
arraignment and also granted the adjournment to Wednesday, 16th May, 2018.
But Counsel to the accused
(Senator Jang), Robert Clarke (SAN) who didn’t object the adjournment for
Wednesday, however, expressed surprise that the accused was served with charges
the court was not aware of.
“My Lord, for over 50 years of
practice this is the first time i’m seeing this”.
There were over 200 security
operatives, ranging from the police, the DSS and the National Security and
Civil Defence Corps who were positioned strategically to secure the court in
case of any breach of law and order.
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