The State paid approximately $2.2million in legal fees to the South
African Lawyers who had appeared for President Zuma in the money laundering and
corruption charges against him in Court. Now he has to cough it up!. Click:
The
South African Court has
held that Zuma must pay back the money to the State. President Zuma was
initially told to resign as a result of his criminal cases, to go and
face his criminal prosecution but he delayed and just before his
political colleagues in ANC would take the next
step to force him out, he resigned in February 2018.
Teaching Moments:
1. Zuma was reprimanded because he took money from the State Treasury to pay his Lawyers
who fought his criminal matters of corruption, money laundering,
now Zuma has been ordered to refund
approx $2.2million to the state account.
2. Usoro
appear to have
a scheme up his sleeves, after stalling his arraignment Monday 10-12
and the court adjourned to Tues 18-12 for arraignment and to take his
plea and bail, he and his lawyers are yet to file his Bail application.
He has been served the charge sheet since Monday 10-12 when he was not
arraigned at the FHC Lagos as a result of his evasion of service of the
charge
sheet. A Journalist called one of his lawyers to inquire why a bail
application was not filed and the lawyer retorted "we have our plans"
said that thrice said. This
case is a public scrutiny of the man at the helm of
NBA who has refused to resign like President Zuma to face his offNBA
actions until Zuma was to be forced out by his party,
and he stepped down.
3. Mr
Paul Usoro’s
passport seized over corruption and money laundering charges and
inventory of his properties under watch. He cannot travel to attend
Int’l events, he
will not attend IBA Council meetings at this time or any IBA Conference
until his criminal matters have been concluded and if he is convicted he
will not be able to practice, he will stand disbarred and the name Paul
Usoro SAN will be struck out the roll of legal practitioners. Will set
some precedents for Lawyers not to model on ML.
4. His lawyer thinks that being the President of NBA
grants license to misconduct. No! Are you not aware that even in civil cases, Lawyers are not
to present their cases if they were litigants, from the Bar, much more criminal
matters such as this!.
5. Usoro and his Lawyer
must desist from attempts to use the toga of NBA in these proceedings, party in litigation(s) not above the law. Usoro is a criminal suspect and parties
are all equal before the law, a fortiori
if he has no bail application pending and granted, well then he deserves to stay as a guest of the state.
6.
Should Mr Usoro abscond from his arraignment on Tuesday and decides to
send his
Counsel to argue anticipated frivolous preliminary objection(the Courts
have held all preliminary objections should be taken with your criminal
trial such that it is when you get to address stage that you and the
prosecutor will address the court), so Usoro risks a Bench
Warrant being issued to compel his attendance to answer to serious
economic
crimes TEN COUNTS! Usoros hands in the tills in flagrante delicto.
All the Best
CN AJIE ESQ.
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