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| That's almost one lawyer per wife |
| By All Africa.com |
| Published: 09/22/2008 |
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NIGERIA, AFRICA - Up to 87 lawyers have been mobilized by human rights coalition groups in the North for the defense of Alhaji Bello Masaba, the man with 86 wives. Masaba is currently remanded in prison custody by a Minna Upper Sharia Court for unlawful marriages and inciting contempt of a religious creed. The lawyers said they had concluded plans to file a motion on notice before the Upper Sharia Court for the old man to be set free tomorrow, even as civil society community in the North vowed to storm the court in protest against the action of the Niger State government on the matter. President of the Civil Rights Congress, Mallam Shehu Sani disclosed that a coalition of 27 human rights groups in the North had decided to engage the services of 87 lawyers to defend Masaba and his wives against the charges being preferred against him before the Upper Sharia Court. Lead counsel and spokesperson of the group of lawyers, Mohammed Sanusi said at a joint news conference with the CRC yesterday in Kaduna that the legal services to be rendered would be at no cost to either Masaba or the coalition of human rights groups. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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