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00:00 The second point I would like to make is,
00:03 yesterday, somebody threatened the judge
00:09 who is going to sit on the case.
00:12 And federal authorities arrested that person
00:19 that this is against the law,
00:26 that this is a crime threatening a judge,
00:30 that this is against the law and arrested.
00:36 They just didn't issue a statement
00:39 that this is against the law.
00:40 And I want Nigerians to keep this in mind
00:44 because we are getting close to the red line
00:50 of intimidating judges over cases
00:55 that are before them, political cases, election cases.
01:00 Now, when one says this, people think,
01:06 oh, he's talking about the presidential tribunals.
01:11 No, remember a judge in Nigeria,
01:17 sitting in Kano said,
01:24 her senior SAN had tried to bribe her
01:28 because she's sitting over an electoral case.
01:36 Now, what is the Ministry of Justice there for?
01:41 What is the police there for?
01:44 What is the DSS there for?
01:47 Surely the people who are intimidating,
01:52 who are threatening judges, they are known.
01:57 They are not ghosts.
01:59 They are not spirits.
02:01 It is a danger to our safety, to our stability
02:06 when you expose the judiciary,
02:13 whether at the federal level or at the state level
02:17 to intimidation and you do nothing
02:21 except to simply say, this is against the law, go after them.
02:26 Even democracy does not allow you
02:31 to intimidate a judge, to threaten his family,
02:36 to threaten the judges, to threaten their daughters.
02:44 Democracy does not allow you to do that.
02:46 You've crossed the red line.
02:48 And I thought I should bring to your attention
02:52 what's happened in the United States
02:54 where we are copying that they are not allowing
02:58 that red line to be crossed
03:00 without doing something about it.
03:02 Don't let us say that we are going to be more Catholic
03:06 than the Pope, or we don't want to be accused of this.
03:10 And we don't want to be accused of that.
03:11 Therefore we will leave them alone.
03:14 You leave them alone until they burn down the house.
03:18 No, no, no, that's not Russian.