Cross River Govt Blasts Falana Over Comments

By Editor

The Cross River State Government has flayed senior lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN for linking it with the terrorism charges preferred against Mr. Agba Jalingo by the Nigerian police.

The government in a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Mr. Christian Ita, accused Falana of obfuscating the facts of the matter.

It described as shameful, the fact that Mr. Falana, would issue a statement in which he made spurious claims against the state without even siting the charge sheet to intimate himself with the facts of the case.

It said contrary to Falana’s claim, the “Cross River State Government has no hand in the terrorism charges preferred against Agba Jalingo by the police.

“The state government is made to understand that the police slammed terrorism charge against Mr. Jalingo for his alleged role in the RevolutionNow protest, as an ally of Mr. Omoyele Sowore, who is currently being held by the Department of State Services (DSS).”

The statement explained that the micro-finance bank report which Mr. Jalingo wrote and which Falana referenced, has nothing to do with Jalingo’s arrests and the subsequent slamming of terrorism charges against him.

“It may interest Falana and his co-travelers to note that the bank has since instituted a civil suit against Jalingo for libel. So whatever is going on between the police and Jalingo has nothing to do with the bank or the state government.”

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