INSIDE PORT HARCOURT ISOLATION CENTRE: AN SOS FOR PRODEST HOTEL MANAGER!!!

It is important, the public should be aware that 7 days - a week after Prodest Hotel manager, Dr Bariledum Azoroh was arrested, he is still under detention and in the custody of the Rivers state government with no access to food medicals and in a very dehumanizing condition.

Azoroh, like a "political prisoner" of the COVID-19 war, is unjustifiably having his prosecution deliberately delayed and case willfully prolonged with series of needles adjournments by the Rivers coronavirus task force mobile court for no cogent reason.

The makeshift court located at the Yakubu Gowon stadium, the state Covid-19 isolation center is believed, by their actions, are acting in consonance with the jungle desires of the Rivers state government to continue to keep the hotel manager in illegal detention, not of the dictates of the law.

The Honorable Attorney General and commissioner for justice in Rivers State is personally leading the prosecution counsel.

The only charge preferred against Dr Azoroh that is before the court is an alleged breach of the Rivers state government's Covid-19 executive order 6 on the closure of hotels, that his hotel was operating thereby violating the Governor's lockdown directives in the state.

For four consecutive sittings of the court, it has been series of deliberate delays in the name adjournments. The Prodest Hotel manager has entered a not guilty plea to the charges. Both prosecution and defense witnesses has been called and yet no judgment. The offense is bailable.

Assuming he had to plead guilty or he is found guilty notwithstanding, as a misdemeanor offense, the penalty the law provides would ordinarily be either payment of fine, community service or be quarantined for 14 days or combined, or with an option of bail.

In that Port Harcourt commercial center, sorry isolation center, it is a beehive of activities. Hundreds of people are brought in per-second on a daily basis and millions are raked.

As people are brought, charges are preferred against them and decisions taken by the court almost immediately. Some pay from as low as 20k to as high as 200k, either as fee for fine or bail, depending on the nature of offence.

One wonders why the Prodest Hotel manager's case is different. He was arrested for allegedly operating his hotel during lockdown, as such violated the law. Those were the charges before the court, and nothing else.

We are surprised, why is his case not decided eitherways as others yet? Why is he still being detained without bail? Why the needless adjournments and delays?

Of utmost concern is the fact that the executive order 6 for which Prodest Hotel was alleged to have voilated and was demolished, is still the bases upon which Dr Bariledum Azoroh, the hotel manager is being charged, with a round of unending trial.

Like it was with Caverton and similar of other experiences, if the idea is to keep him in isolation for 14 days as prescribed by the Covid-19 WHO protocol, then the court should make pronouncements as is the case with others. If he is to be freed as he pleaded, the court should also make pronouncement and then free him.

The Judiciary, they say is the last hope of the common man. The Judiciary in Nigeria have come of age. They should purge themselves, never be allowed to be used as a tool for political witchunting and exercise of executive recklessness.

This is a Save-our-soul message to the NJC, the Chief justice of Nigeria, the body of benchers, the NBA, the human rights community and civil society organizations to raise in defence for the freedom of Dr Bariledum Azoroh, the manager of Prodest Hotel.

#FreeDrAzorohNow
#JusticeForAzoroh
#ProdestHotel
#PHHotelDemolition
#PortHarcourtDemolition

Please share until justice is done!

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INSIDE PORT HARCOURT ISOLATION CENTRE: AN SOS FOR PRODEST HOTEL MANAGER!!!

It is important, the public should be aware that 7 days - a week after Prodest Hotel manager, Dr Bariledum Azoroh was arrested, he is still under detention and in the custody of the Rivers state government with no access to food medicals and in a very dehumanizing condition.

Azoroh, like a "political prisoner" of the COVID-19 war, is unjustifiably having his prosecution deliberately delayed and case willfully prolonged with series of needles adjournments by the Rivers coronavirus task force mobile court for no cogent reason.

The makeshift court located at the Yakubu Gowon stadium, the state Covid-19 isolation center is believed, by their actions, are acting in consonance with the jungle desires of the Rivers state government to continue to keep the hotel manager in illegal detention, not of the dictates of the law.

The Honorable Attorney General and commissioner for justice in Rivers State is personally leading the prosecution counsel.

The only charge preferred against Dr Azoroh that is before the court is an alleged breach of the Rivers state government's Covid-19 executive order 6 on the closure of hotels, that his hotel was operating thereby violating the Governor's lockdown directives in the state.

For four consecutive sittings of the court, it has been series of deliberate delays in the name adjournments. The Prodest Hotel manager has entered a not guilty plea to the charges. Both prosecution and defense witnesses has been called and yet no judgment. The offense is bailable.

Assuming he had to plead guilty or he is found guilty notwithstanding, as a misdemeanor offense, the penalty the law provides would ordinarily be either payment of fine, community service or be quarantined for 14 days or combined, or with an option of bail.

In that Port Harcourt commercial center, sorry isolation center, it is a beehive of activities. Hundreds of people are brought in per-second on a daily basis and millions are raked.

As people are brought, charges are preferred against them and decisions taken by the court almost immediately. Some pay from as low as 20k to as high as 200k, either as fee for fine or bail, depending on the nature of offence.

One wonders why the Prodest Hotel manager's case is different. He was arrested for allegedly operating his hotel during lockdown, as such violated the law. Those were the charges before the court, and nothing else.

We are surprised, why is his case not decided eitherways as others yet? Why is he still being detained without bail? Why the needless adjournments and delays?

Of utmost concern is the fact that the executive order 6 for which Prodest Hotel was alleged to have voilated and was demolished, is still the bases upon which Dr Bariledum Azoroh, the hotel manager is being charged, with a round of unending trial.

Like it was with Caverton and similar of other experiences, if the idea is to keep him in isolation for 14 days as prescribed by the Covid-19 WHO protocol, then the court should make pronouncements as is the case with others. If he is to be freed as he pleaded, the court should also make pronouncement and then free him.

The Judiciary, they say is the last hope of the common man. The Judiciary in Nigeria have come of age. They should purge themselves, never be allowed to be used as a tool for political witchunting and exercise of executive recklessness.

This is a Save-our-soul message to the NJC, the Chief justice of Nigeria, the body of benchers, the NBA, the human rights community and civil society organizations to raise in defence for the freedom of Dr Bariledum Azoroh, the manager of Prodest Hotel.

#FreeDrAzorohNow
#JusticeForAzoroh
#ProdestHotel
#PHHotelDemolition
#PortHarcourtDemolition

Please share until justice is done!

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