ACJL: What A Mundane Legislation

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The new law just passed by the Imo State government that has got people talking is one that has drawn my attention today. Termed the Administration of Criminal Justice Law 2020, that piece of legislation is one awful and needless addendum to our existing body of laws that needed to be vociferously condemned.


Ostensibly and for the start, the people ordinarily provoked by such senselessness has given it the needed diatribe. But this condemnation must be taken further beyond the surface layer of criticism to its deeper layer of outburst that sends a clear message that this bill of a law is not just welcomed but smacks of a mundane dereliction to ludicrous childish postulation and so much backward.


The so-called law is an element of such puerile senselessness of a huge magnitude that deserves to be roundly and vehemently condemned. The angst that should be shone towards it should speak in such manner as "what do these people take us for?" Indeed, that law is a statement of how these our political leaders have taken us for some archaic simpletons that could be kowtowed at will. What else could define such whimsical projection of a law as to place the culpability or not of a citizen on the "pleasure" of the governor?


Take a look at this clause of the law and you may just have to wander in laughing wonderment. According to Section 484, which ipso facto is the stoking storm of that law:


"Where any person is ordered to be detained during the Governor’s pleasure he shall notwithstanding anything in this Law or in any other written law contained be liable to be detained in such place and under such conditions as the Governor may direct and whilst so detained shall be deemed to be in legal custody”.


When has pleasure become the logical basis of what's a legal offense? The most appalling aspect of it, beyond the obtrusively ludicrousness of this statement, is the fact that this seeming legal framework is coming in such a time as the swirl in civilization of the 21st century! It is laughable that such mundane assertion could be conceived talk more of been enacted as a law!


For goodness sake how can this so-called political leaders conceive of something as inconceivable in a modern society as this? It is pathetic how so disrespectful this people have considered us to be. Or else what more could be said to be the driver behind this so-called legislation that insults our common sentiments as a people, reasonable and civilized?


To say the least, this is shameful especially as coming from a state as Imo! It is not only condemnable, but must immediately be expunged no matter whose signature has given it that undeserving force. This nonsense should not stand.


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