Okutepa condemns handcuffing of Dele Farotimi

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) J. S. Okutepa has totally condemned the handcuffing of Dele Farotimi, a human rights activist.

The SAN expressed total dissatisfaction on his social media post on Monday.

He said “It is a shame that Dele Farotimi is handcuffed for alleged cyberstalking or criminal defamation. To celebrate this as a triumph of justice is to encourage and celebrate the most crooked and wicked disgrace of the nobility of the legal profession.

“No mather how uncivilised and unethical Dele Farotimi may have put down his thoughts, which injured the reputation of others, the treatment being metted to him while still a member of the noble profession is as worse as the alleged offence he may have committed.

“Handcuffing a lawyer who is yet to be debarred and who still has his name on the roll of legal practitioners in Nigeria and who has not been shown to be violent in conduct, is not only an abuse of criminal process, it is intolerably disgraceful

“The legal profession in Nigeria has destroyed itself. Primitive vengeance being undertaking by police institutions in the manner being done to Dele Farotimi is not damaging Dele Farotimi. It is destroying the legal profession, and this show of shame is worse and has lowered the intergrity and reputation of the legal profession more than the defamation complained of in the charge” he said.