{"id":3261,"date":"2025-04-08T08:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2025-04-08T08:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:25:21","slug":"missing-jewelrywe-have-followed-due-process-in-dame-jonathans-suit-against-domestic-workers-judicial-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/missing-jewelrywe-have-followed-due-process-in-dame-jonathans-suit-against-domestic-workers-judicial-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Jewelry:We have followed Due Process in Dame Jonathan’s suit against Domestic workers- Judicial officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By David Owei, Baylesa<\/div>\n
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Head of Media and Information, Baylesa State High Court, Mr Julius Nyananyo, has made clarification on of the case of wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan and her 15 domestic workers.<\/div>\n
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In a statement by Mr Nyananyo, the attention of the Bayelsa State High Court has been drawn to a media report titled ” Ex- Nigerian First Lady Patience Jonathan Holds 15 Domestic Workers in Prison over missing Jewellery” by an online Reporter on Thursday,3rd April,2025.<\/div>\n
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According to the statement, \u201cas a responsible organisation we want to set the records straight in the interest of justice and balance reportage.*<\/div>\n
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Part of the statement reads “The said case is being prosecuted by the State against the 15 persons as defendants and is currently being handled in High Court 1,\u00a0 presided by Hon.Justice Matilda Ayemieye, Chief Judge of Bayelsa State and the charge sheet includes allagations of armed robbery and attempted murder.”<\/div>\n
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“The\u00a0 case was assigned to Hon.Justice Ayemieye in 2019 before my Lord became the Chief Judge, and His Lordship, granted accelerated hearing to enable parties to conduct the matter speedily<\/div>\n
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From available records, the matter has suffered delays due to multiple defence lawyers who must cross- examine witnesses which have slowed down proceedings and the case has also suffered several adjournments at the instance of Counsel.”<\/div>\n
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“His\u00a0 Lordship had earlier adviced\u00a0 the defence team to work together by reducing the lawyers involved in the matter in the interest of the accused persons for speedy dispensation of the case.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0The court has always sat on all days assigned for the case and the delay in the matter is not the fault of the court, only recently an application for Trial within Trial was made which the court granted,this obviously will further delay the case.”<\/div>\n
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“With\u00a0 regards to the issue of bail, Mr Nyananyo, noted that applications were determined on the merit and based on the materials furnished, some of the defendants were admitted to bail. If anyone was dissatisfied, there is mechanism for review of same by appealing to the higher Courts.*<\/div>\n
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It is sad and worrisome that the online platform threw the ethics of the journalism profession to the wind and resorted to the use of very derogatory language that negates public decency against the person of the Chief Judge. We further deny as false and untrue that any person or authority is exerting influence or dictating the pace of the case.<\/div>\n
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The use of such derogatory language against the person of the presiding judge and the office of the Chief Judge is most unfortunate and against journalistic principles.<\/div>\n
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Mr Nyananyo , advised Reporters to do more of investigative journalism than hear say in the interest of Justice and the Public.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By David Owei, Baylesa Head of Media and Information, Baylesa State High Court, Mr Julius Nyananyo, has made clarification on of the case of wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan and her 15 domestic workers. In a statement by Mr Nyananyo, the attention of the Bayelsa State High Court has been drawn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2114,2116,2118,2117,1729,2115],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-crime","tag-clarification","tag-derogatory","tag-dissatisfied","tag-exerting","tag-influence","tag-investigative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}