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"Let me end where a lawyer should, with the files. Six years ago I argued that my client was entitled to due process, to confrontation, to proof, and to a published outcome, and I hold today, with perfect consistency, that Mr. Malami is entitled to exactly the same: a fair trial of the charges, a fair hearing of any appeal, and judgment on evidence rather than on irony. The law’s promise is not that the mighty will fall; it is that everyone, mighty and small, accuser and accused, will be judged by the same rules, in the open, on proof. That promise failed Ibrahim Magu in 2020 in the manner of his treatment, whatever the merits; it is being kept, so far, in the Federal High Court in 2026. The wheel of accountability turns slowly in Nigeria, but this week it turned in public, on evidence, with reasons. That is progress, and those of us who keep the ledgers of the rule of law should say so, record it accurately, and insist that it keep turning, no matter whose gate it stops before next."

Magu’s Travail And Malami’s Forfeiture: The Wheel of Accountability Turns – THISDAYLIVE https://share.google/Oq2WX8Q6AaOdcBvT7

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