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Veteran Nigerian comedian and social commentator, Ali Baba has taken to his Instagram page to complain about the delay inChukwudi Dumeme Onuamadike popularly known as Evans the kidnappers trial.The alleged notorious kidnap kingpin was arrested in June 2017 for years of high-profile abductions across the country, during which he collected millions of dollars in ransoms.However, since his arrest, he has been on trial and Ali Baba is obviously not pleased with this as he believes that the delay in the process is not good for all involved.He wrote,Evans is still on triallllllllllllll.See why justice in Nigeria leaves a lot to be desired. The New Zealand shooter had his day in court, no waste of time. The Boston Marathon bomber too did not even have time to plan an escape. The Nigerian diaper bomber didnt have time to take a leak and all of the other cases did not take 1 year. But in Nigeria, a case will go on for 20 years.The lawyers who are on the case will get frustrated; move to another law firm; retire:; or die; get appointed into government; set up their own chambers; the judge will be transferred or promoted or retired or died for one reason or the other, shaaaaaa justice will be delayed. Thats how cases have been killed. Young promising lawyers have been frustrated out of the legal world. Beautiful lawyers that would have made SAN in record time. Naaaaaa. We dont do that.The SANs will come to court, take a date and in collusion with justices who are their friends continue to take adjournment after adjournment. Oh he is appearing in a higher court. An election tribunal case came up and its a time-bound case. He is out for medical checkup. A case is clashing with this one. Me lord give me time to go through the prosecution witnesses statements 5 years later, thecase is still on. Judge will not sit.People threatening witnesses. Witnesses disappearing without a trace. Court is on strike. Case has not begun, but it will first reach Supreme Court. Just to interpret jurisdiction will take 2 years. Then after that it will come back to the magistrate court. And move up again, thanks to appeals till Supreme Court again.We have no shame. People who walk free in Nigeria get sentenced in working judicial systems. People were jailed in the Halliburton case. Yet those who the culprits paid here, are saints.And we have the guts to query Dubai judicial system. You are caught, you go to court and you are cut. No diplomatic courtesy.Just recently, the entertainer shared a video of how corrupt politicians should be treated. In the video, a prisoner is seen getting a group beating from otherinmates.

Dialogue can resolve all conflicts OnaiyekanJohn Cardinal Onaiyekan (Photo Credit: Daily Post)Cardinal John Onaiyekan has said that effective dialogue has the potential of resolving all kinds of conflicts.He also called on well meaning Nigerians to support programmes aimed at building peace across the country.Mr Onaiyekan said this on the sidelines of the graduation ceremony for fellows of the 2018/2019 Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP) Fellowship Programme on Interreligious Dialogue and Mediation in Abuja.The fellowship had 35 fellows comprised of 18 Christians and 17 Muslims drawn from the six geopolitical zones.They include 22 males and 13 females from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds in Nigeria.Im sure there are many Nigerians when they hear that the Cardinal Onaiyekan foundation is giving a certificate to a Miyetti Allah secretary, they will say what is happening here.Yes! They should ask what is happening here. What is happening here means there is no such thing as an inevitable conflict.Every conflict can be resolved, once you are able to sit down together look at each other face to face, you will now realise that every human being is just exactly like you, like your brother, your cousin which is what you have seen.And I thank God this is happening in an organisation that bears my name. I will be happy to see more and more organisations like this that are set up.We got the money, the seed money from America although we raised local funds, my hope is that having proved that this formula is a viable formula, we will be able to reach out to Nigerians to give us the money to do it.The DHR foundation as we are told is a family foundation, its just a family that happen to be very rich and decided to spend their money doing good all over the world.Havent we got many rich families in Nigeria with billions buying houses in Dubai and never once thinking about doing good for the community. Its a shame. I wont even talk about government because this is one of the things the government should be supporting.Mary Dalsin, Programme Associate, GHR foundation, who spoke with NAN expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the programme.She said that the impact of the programme was already yielding fruitful results in some communities were the fellows were drawn from.The fellows have said how important it was that Nigerians were sharing their experience and teaching them about interreligious action, about interreligious dialogue, about tolerance, conflict resolution, project design.Because so often it is foreigners flying in and telling them the western way and then leaving and there is no one to ask questions, she said.She said the GHR foundation based in Minnesota, USA, is a family foundation that funds effort to bridge people, ideas and organisations. (NAN)