Emmanuel Ogebe, the legal representative of Sunday Jackson, the farmer who was convicted for self-defense and recently released, has said the case went beyond just self-defense to a terrible prosecution.
Ogebe made this known on Thursday in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on live TV.
“We need to understand that it was not just a classic self-defense but it was a terrible prosecution case.
“Jackson was charged with 2 stabs, but the judgement said it was 3, and the Supreme Court said 3 stabs were excessive.
“The argument of the court was that yes it was self-defense but too many stabs. If they had accepted what was on the charge sheet that it was two stabs, he would have gone home free.
“Then we had the paramount ruler of his tribe and he got Jackson’s father and the deceased’s father to come together and the deceased’s father signed a letter for pardon. So, that and the outcry of Nigerians really helped.
“In a country where the US has just come to help us fight terrorism, we are trying to kill a citizen who helped what was clearly a deadly attack on himself, and so, everyone could see that this was unjust,” the lawyer said.
