Incarcerated Nigerian human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong has said that nothing can break his spirit to continue to say the truth to the powers that be.
Effiong, who was released after serving one month in jail said he is only sorry for those who hoped to break his resolution to stand against injustice.
He wrote on Friday, “I am back, stronger and more determined to confront the forces of oppression and to continue to speak nothing but the hard truth to the faces of the oppressors of our people. I feel sorry for those who thought they can break my spirit by incarcerating me.”
The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Ekaette Obot, had committed Effiong to one month prison for allegedly being rude in court.
But Effiong, in his post on the same day, said
“The Chief Judge of Akwa Akwa Ibom ordered a Premium Times reporter to leave the court. I said my lord, we were thinking that since the proceeding is public, that members of the public should be allowed to observe the proceeding. My Lord asked me to proceed with cross examination,” he wrote.
“I will be going to the Uyo Correctional Centre now. I have not done anything. I wasn’t even given the opportunity to say anything before the “conviction”. Two lawyers in court appealed to the Hon. Chief Judge but my Lord insisted that I must be jailed.”