TWO Akure lawyers, Barrister Fola Amure and Titiloye Charles, on Tuesday sharply divided on the parade of Ile Ife crisis suspects in Abuja, by the police authorities on Monday.
While Amure condemned the parade of arrested suspects in the Ile Ife crisis by the police, describing it as high handedness on the part of police, Charles advised Nigerians and the people of the South west region not to politicize the parade of the 38 suspects, but should allow the law to take its cause.
According to Amure, the offence was committed in Ile Ife in Osun state and they should not have been taken to Abuja, saying it is not the legal right of the police to parade them outside Ife without any fair hearing.
They have to be tried where the offence is purportedly committed and not outside where the offense is committed saying parading suspects undergoing investigation was illegal and as it could not be justified until they are tried.
He noted that none of the Fulani herdsmen who main, kill or massacre their host communities in the South west have never been taken to Abuja for any public parade and urged the police authorities not to be partial in the crisis that erupted in Ile Ife.
But Charles said people should not politicize the issues saying the hierarchy of investigation in any issue depends on the section of police that is carrying out the investigation.
He said “being paraded is different from being tried and people should stop reading meaning to the parade of the suspects in Abuja and they should desist from heating the polity”
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