The drama between the Actors Guild of Nigeria president Fribresima Ibinabo and Clarion Chukwura a popular actress and mother of an award winning video director Clearence Peters is one of the dramas rocking the Nollywood industry lately as it is taking different forms and dimensions, its indeed a long story..................from malice, to battle for supremacy, seniority and so on.
This is not unknown in that industry but what got my attention was the last interview granted by Clarion in the Punch Newspaper against Ibinabo, stating that she is not on the same level with her as she is an ex convict and also not fit to lead the AGN.
I remember several years ago, the AGN president,Ibinabo who was coming back from a night club in a friends car driving under the influence of alcohol ran into a medical practitioner who was on his way to work and killed the family man, instead of Ibinabo to stay back to rush him to the hospital she ran away, she was later arrested and convicted for an offence of manslaughter, the term which she served.
All effort to lay my hand on the AGN constitution which Clarion is relying on proved abortive, but the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will be adopted for this discussion as the offence convicted for was in Nigeria,the question now is whether there is any option in law available to an ex-convict and whether unknown to Clarion, Ibinabo has taken advantage of this opportunity the law avail an ex-convict.
The constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by virtue of Section 175 (prerogative of mercy) vest the power to pardon an ex-convict of any offence committed in the Chief Executive Officer of the states, Pardon in law strikes conviction of an accused off the criminal record as if the conviction never occurred, thereby making an accused free of all previous conviction and makes him a free man, innocent of the offence.
If truly the constitution of the AGN forbid an ex-convict to lead then, how did Ibinabo got there? We hereby urge Ibinabo to put the record straight by proving to the entire industry and their numerous fans across the world that the allegation was false,and ex-convict can lead or she has been previously pardoned or which ever the way it is.
we deserve to know the truth. Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria! Long Live the AGN
Thank you.
Oyenike Alliyu-Adebiyi LLB(hons)BL
Saturday 17 May 2014
Thursday 8 May 2014
JUNGLE JUSTICE: A NO GO AREA
The court from time in memorial has been the
last resort for the rich and common men in the society, but in the last few
years people no longer believe in the judiciary because of the way and manners
their cases are being handled,
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