The government will have hard time proving him guilty of murder but they can do so if they provide testimony that he ordered the killings of innocent citizens. This will hold if the DA strikes a deal with some of his members for lesser sentence to testify against him. Now we are talking. The possibility of his members testifying against him is 10 to 1 with strings attached.

The key to murder and robbery lies on his members. However, you know the Nigeria judicial system, anything can happen. But I strongly believe he will not walk free.If this happens the moral of the Nigerian Police will sink lower. I mean grossly low. Abacha will rise from his grave and free his son and Mustapha.

Our man Adams will serve a prison term come what may. The Yorubas call for his freedom is nothing but cosmetic gesture and will not happen. Yes, those calling for his release without trial have something to hide. They could be conspirators. Last time I checked Bola Ige is still the Justice Minister. I will be damned to hear him call for Adams realise without trial. His job is to make sure that Adams is not violated under the law.I know one thing though, our man Adams is not a criminal yet. He should be treated like a human being unless the Nigeria constitution does not recorgnize humane treatment binded by the United Nation charter.

All Nigeria has to do is provide him with due process of law and restore public confidence. Nigeria Judicial systems has been doomed the weakest in the world because it neither exercises it's judicial power or respect the dignity of the people.If Adams walk,it is to restore public confidence that a person is innocent until proven guilty. But I don't see that happening anyhow not when Adams is the Nigerian one man modern day ethnic cleanser. Public enemy number One.

Adams will be in jail for a while before trial until his celebrity status diminishes to give the government time to bury him and weaken his belief. This is a high profile case. The Nigerian government is glad that Adams is now secured and violence from OPC quenched for now. Our man Adams will be in prison for a long haul. Last time I read, he was complaining about the prison and refusal to get medical attention.I say live with it pal that is part and parcel of being in Nigerian Prison especially when one is branded a mass murderer and a serial killer blended together. I do not foresee the government granting him bail based on his cowboy mentality. As they say in America you can't fight city hall not when your branded a killer.

This government is not in a hurry for trial.They have lots of problems tattooed across the Federation. Adams will defintely snitch before trial. Buckle up your seat belt folks.

Nigeria does not have the 6th Amendment clause, the right for an attorney and the right for a speedy trial.I am afraid that Adams will end up like Mustapha and Abacha still awaiting trial and has so far repented.

Mustapha has been in the Penn for ages and has so far and freely exposed every Dick and Tom that he worked with. Adams will assume the same status like Mustapha. Biafrans should not be suprized to see him calling for a truce and laying down his weapon.
After all records shows that when your freedom is taken away from you one is likely to soften his aggression towards the government to gain back his freedom.

The only difference between Adams and Mustapha is that the later is stolen rich and the former poor.Adam will not survive in the Penn. He is weak. I know Gani Adams, he is no Nelson Mendela. He is a cry baby leader. I see Adam leaning towards Mustapha and confessing his sins.Those pleading for his release [Bola Ige]may have something to hide. Adams will implicate all, only time will tell. With all these hoopla,Biafra is still Waypoint One make no mistakes about it.

Hail Biafra

What I believe the Judge did was dismiss the States objection to counter suit filed by Gani's counsel - thereby allowing that suit to be heard at a future date. It does not mean that the Judge has concluded that Gani's Constitutional rights have been violated. Nor does it cancel out original charges in case of The State Vs. Gani Adams.

How can any of you tell if the Judge in that case will rule that Gani's fundamental Human rights have been violated? At this stage, it is no big deal that the preliminary objection is dimissed.

Gani is still in Prison and the case against him is still very well alive. If his lawyers are smart enough to argue his case and secure his freedom, so be it. But it won't change the truth I know about him. I am more interested in the Constitutional rule of law than a cheap ethno-political score. Of course, you know my opinion of who Gani represents - need I repeat?

In most criminal suits, it is not unusual that objections and motions are filed during course of trial. Such may become cumlative gains/losses for either of sides that may affect final verdict. So, stop playing Parapo Judge and Jury for/against Gani Adams and wait to try out the Judiciary system.

COMPOL Mike Okiro did nothing wrong in coming out to clear the air. He has every right to set records straight as Gani does through the court system.

I personally do not care about OPC and its so-called leaders; be they Adams or Fashuen.
No one in his right senses should however compare Bakassi Boys' or MASSOB to that murdereous organization called OPC.
Is it not a disgrace to the Yoruba race that a murdereous carpenter like Gani Adams is leading them while they claim to be the most educated race in BiafraNigeria? What a retrogessive 'educated' race.

LAGOS — A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday dismissed Federal Government’s preliminary objection to the suit filed by factional leader of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Ganiyu Adams in which he challenged his arrest and detention by the police on August 22, 2001.

However, the Lagos State Police Command yesterday described as false allegations against its Commissioner, Mr. Mike Okiro and his men by Adams.

The court had, on August 24, granted Adams leave to apply for the enforcement of his fundamental rights, following his arrest and detention by the police.

Plaintiff in the suit wanted the court to declare his arrest and detention by the police on August 22, 2001 as a violation of his fundamental rights, guaranteed under Sections 35, 36 and 41 of the 1999 constitution and Articles 4, 5, 6, and 12 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap 10, Laws of the Federation, 1990 and therefore, unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, null and void.

The Federal Government, however, challenged the suit on the ground that Adams had already been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, before this suit was filed and therefore the action was speculative, academic and brought in bad faith.

According to the government, by virtue of the constitution, certain consequential repeal, Decree No. 63 of 1999, the suit was wrongly constituted before the court, and because Ganiyu Adams had been arraigned, the present suit is an abuse of court process.

Justice Chukwura Nnamani in his ruling said having listened to argument by counsel in support of their written address he found the preliminary objection (by the Inspector_General of Police) lacking in ingredient."

"I agree with Ganiyu Adams’ counsel as regard Section 315 of the 1999 constitution, which preserves the fundamental right enforcement procedure rule, that where there is a right there is a remedy and the rule made no clear rule on the procedure to be adopted in bringing this suit," he said.

"The preliminary objection by the respondent’s counsel that Decree No. 64 has been repealed is not agreeable to this court and the argument also that a civil and criminal suit cannot go on at the same time does not in anyway relate to the issue of preliminary objection.

"It is pertinent that the preliminary objection raised an important issue of detention, what the counsel did not do was to either attach the detention order made by the magistrate court to remand Ganiyu Adams or exhibiting same. If he had done do, he would have attracted the attention of the court, because an order of a court must be jurisdiction of the court to hear the mater.

Meanwhile, outside the court premises, over 3000 supporters of the detained OPC leader gathered, and spread to surrounding roads, singing, chanting and protesting the continued detention of their leader. They asked the police to release him (Adams). They also protested what they called the embarrassing way Ganiyu Adams was paraded and treated like a common criminal by the police, even when the police knew "he (Adams) had committed no offence."

The OPC members, some of whom wore white T-shirts with Ganiyu Adams face engraved on it, or white agbada with OPC symbol printed on it were however, peaceful, as they vowed to continue their protest until Ganiyu Adams was released.

Police react

And reacting to the various allegations against Mr. Okiro and his men, the Lagos State Police Commissioner yesterday said:

"The attention of the Lagos State Police Command has been drawn to various defamatory statements made by Gani Adams in the press in recent times. The Command has carefully studied the legal interpretation of the defamatory statements made against senior police officers of the command, the command and the distinguished Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr. Mike M. Okiro, CP.

"It is worthy of note that the various defamatory statements made by Gani Adams prior to and after his arrest have become so personal that it leaves room for his credibility as a serious_minded person. The unwarranted attacks on the personality of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State is to say the least unfortunate, viz:

He insinuated that the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State had declared Gani Adams wanted in connection with purported clashes between the OPC and the Ijaws at Ajegunle, Lagos.
That the Commissioner of Police Lagos State been an Ijaw man declared him wanted because his Ijaw brothers were victims in the purported clash.
That the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State threatened to kill him.
"It is interesting to note that the arrest and subsequent arraignment of Gani Adams by the Lagos State Police Command on the relevant charges is an eloquent testimony that Gani Adams was not declared wanted for any Ijaw matter. Also, it is so disheartening that Gani Adams will say that the highly placed Commissioner of Police, Lagos State threatened to kill him when in fact, the only time he saw him was when detectives brought him before the press and that occasion did not witness any form of threat.

"The defamatory statement of Gani Adams and his ilk, are therefore designed to injure the reputation of the person of the Commissioner of Police by exposing him to unnecessary hatred, contempt or ridicule and to damage his hard-earned position as the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State before the public.

"Similarly, the ridiculous statement of Gani Adams, viz:

That he did not eat any food;
That he was beaten up, at times with the butt of a gun or tortured;
That he was locked up with armed robbers;
That the sum of N40,000 was taken from him which was not recorded ...
"For the avoidance of doubt, the insinuations so far raised by Gani Adams are not only false and misleading, but a calculated attempt to whip up unnecessary sentiments in order to elicit undeserved public sympathy and pitch one section of the country against the other(s). The falsehood so far raised by Gani Adams has left so much doubt on his credibility as a person.

"These and other irrelevant insinuations are not only false but unfortunately depict the level of unseriousness of a group of hoodlums who see nothing wrong with the shameless murder of their fellow innocent citizens in the state.

Have some shame and quit disgracing your lily-livered "one Nigeria" self!

Fears mount over Gani Adams appearance in court today

(Friday, 14th September, 2001)
By Victor Ahiuma-Young, Innocent Anaba and Olasunkanmi Akoni

LAGOS—DETAINED factional leader of the Odua People’s Congress (OPC), Mr. Gani Adams, may not be conveyed to an Ikeja Magistrate Court, today, by authorities of the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons following fears that the excorts may suffer juju attack.

The Ikeja Magistrate Court is expected to rule today on whether or not it has jurisdiction to entertain 23 count charges of murder, treason and armed robbery levelled against him.

In the meantime, scores of supporters of OPC took to the major roads in some parts of Lagos metropolis in jubilation over the conditional bail granted the OPC activist.

Vanguard’s source at Kirikiri noted that some of the armed squad officers are now planning to fake illness to avoid being assigned to take Mr. Adams to the court.

An armed squad officer who claimed to have experienced the "supernatural powers" of OPC told Vanguard that armed squad warden officers had it on good authority that members of OPC were planning a supernatural assault on those who thought they could molest their leader.

His words: "The day I experienced the powers of OPC, since then, I have come to respect them. Mine was a small matter. The source said an OPC activist, a female just used a small white handkerchief to wipe her face. Immediately uncountable and invisible hands started slapping me all over."

"I started shouting and was running around. After a while the girl disappeared. Those who were around thought I was mad. Some even started running away from me. Just then, I heard the girl’s voice saying, I thought you wanted to experience OPC power. This is just a small action and you are shouting like a baby. You are not yet a man. The slapping stopped and till now I have not seen her again.

"We have it on good authority that members of OPC are mobilising and will be stationed at strategic positions to deal supernaturally with those who think they can humiliate an OPC activist not to talk of Oga Adams. Some of us are planning to fake illness or other excuses to avoid being deployed to accompany that man.

"Even in this prison, people are afraid that OPC could try a rescue operation. So in the open you cannot distinguish who is an OPC and who is not. These people have magical powers. They can attack and vanish at will". One of Adams lawyers, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa in a letter to the Deputy Superintendent said "our investigations revealed that the vehicle (Black Maria) meant to convey suspects to court for trial are now under the control of the prison authorities."

"We urge you to kindly see to it that our clients (Ganiyu Adams, Olowoniyi, Bili Elegushi and Bamiji Lateef) are taken to the Ikeja Magistrate Court on Friday, September 14 (today)", he added.

Justice Chukwura Nnamani, sitting at the Federal High Court, Lagos had on Wednesday declared Ganiyu Adams arraignment for an offence that carries capital punishment before the magistrate as unknown to law.

Justice Nnamani subsequently granted Ganiyu Adams bail, though on a very stiff condition, following an application by Oluwole Kehinde, seeking the courts declaration of the arrest and detention of Adams on August 22 illegal and for him (Adams) to be released on bail.

The jubilating OPC activists were sighted in commercial vehicles at Ikorodu about 9 a.m, singing solidarity songs and hailing the judgement of the high court judge which granted their leader a conditional bail.

Reports said the members drove round the city jubilating peacefully.

"Nobody was harmed or attacked, they were just jubilating on their own," an eye-witness said.

They were also sighted at Oshodi and Mushin areas of Lagos. When contacted the Lagos State police spokesman, Mr. Victor Chilaka (ASP), denied any knowledge of the situation.

And the leaders of the Oduduwa nation "kiss and make up" Na wa O!